BRITISH MUSEUM 



The figures for the several Departments were as 



follows 



: — 



Printed Books : 



Books and Pamphlets 





* 



.. . 36,693 



Serials and Parts of Volumes 







69,484 



Maps and Atlases 







1,497 



Music 







8,288 



Newspapers (single numbers) 







278,275 



Miscellaneous 







2,878 



Manuscripts 







497 



Oriental Printed Books and MSS 







1,927 



Prints and Drawings 







2,244 



Egyptian and Assjrrian Antiquities 







967 



Greek and Roman Antiquities 







105 



British and Medieval Antiquities ... 







715 



Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography 







1,699 



Series of objects 







51 



Coins and Medals 







4,059 



409,379 



Full descriptions of the more important objects acquired during the 

 year may be found as usual in the British Museum Quarterly. The 

 National Art -Collections Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries, 

 the Contemporary Art Society, and the Christy Trustees have again 

 helped the Museum to add to the collections. 



The objects allotted to the British Museum from Mr. Woolley's 

 Excavations at Ur and from Mr. Mallowan's Excavations at Tell 

 Arpachiyah were received. 



Printed Books and Maps. 



The chief acquisitions were : — 



Among books printed in the fifteenth century : Saint Augustine, 

 Sermo de verbis euangelicis non potest jilius, printed by the Printer of 

 Dictys, Cologne, 1470, presented by J. H. Burn, Esq., through the 

 Friends of the National Libraries ; Martial d'Auvergne, Tres denotes 

 loueges de la glorieuse vierge Marie, S. Vostre, Paris, 1494 ; Horae ad 

 vsum Sarum, P. Pigouchet for S. Vostre, Paris, C. 1500, presented by 

 Dr. A. W. Pollard, C.B. ; W. Samuel, The Practice practised by the Pope 

 and his prelates, and A Warning for the Cittie of London, c. 1550, 

 purchased with the aid of the Friends of the National Libraries ; 

 three Elizabethan news -quartos presented b}^ Dr. Rosenbach, News 

 Sent out of Britayn, 1591 ; News out of France, 1591 ; and A . . . report 

 . . . of diuerse vnknowne Foules latelie taken at Crowley in the Countie 

 of Lyncolne, 1586; Corrant out of Italy, Gerviiany, etc., Amsterdam, 1621 ; 

 an Anjou Missal, 1523 ; the Statutes of Perugia, 1526-28 ; the Statutes 

 of Nice, Torino, 1578 ; Juan de Borja, Empresas morales, Praga, 1581 ; 

 Juan de Yciar, Libro . . . a escreuir perfectamente, Sevilla, 1596, the 

 most famous Spanish writing book ; Cervantes, La Discreta Galatea, 

 1618. 



Among fine bindings : three seventeenth century French stamped 

 tortoiseshell bindings, presented by Her Majesty the Queen ; and 

 specimens of the work of several modern English fine binders, notably 

 one of T. J. Cobden- Sanderson (bequeathed by Miss C. M. B. Poole) 



