BRITISH MUSEUM 







The figures for the several Departments were as follows : — 





Printed Books : 



1937 



1938 



Books and Pamphlets 



37,942 



47,541 



Serials and Parts of Volumes 



96,128 



99,019 



Maps and Atlases 



2,021 



1,568 



Music 



11,404 



11,594 



Newspapers (Single Numbers) 



263,402 



277,958 



Miscellaneous 



3,054 



2,616 



Manuscripts 



302 



936 



Oriental Printed Books and MSS. ... 



3,265 



5,482 



Prints and Drawings 



3,335 



2,384 



Egjrptian and Assyrian Antiquities 



881 



722 



Greek and Roman Antiquities 



88 



82 



British and Medieval Antiquities 



1,100 



1,275 



Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography 



4,049 



3,692 



Coins and Medals 



5,478 



3,203 





432,449 



458,072 



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 

 added to the collections of the Museum. 



The chief acquisitions of the various Departments were : — 



Printed Books. 



By donation : — 

 From Miss Dorothy Walker (in accordance with the wish of her late 

 father. Sir Emery Walker) : a set of forty -five works, in fifty-six volumes, 

 printed on vellum by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, mostly 

 inscribed presentation copies " to Emery Walker from William Morris." 



From Mrs. J. M. Bulloch : a collection of some fifty volumes of theatre 

 programmes, press notices and portraits, formed by the late Dr. J. M. 

 Bulloch, and constituting a record of the drama in London for the past 

 half-century. 



From Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M. : a further gift of early books, 

 including the following : — 



Joannes Maria Philelphus, Epistolarium nouum, U. Gering, Paris, 1481. 



Traite de paix entre Louis XI et le due d'Autriche, L. Martineau, 

 Paris, 1483. 



J. P. de Ferrariis, Practica Judicialis, J. Suigus, Venice, 1487. 



J. Faber Stapulensis, Ars Moralis, A. Caillault, Paris, 1494. 



By purchase : — 



The Book of Divers Ghostly Matters, W. Caxton, Westminster, 1491, 

 completing the fragment in the Museum. 



Raimundus Lullus, De conceptione b. Marie Virginis, Paulus de 

 Colonia & Socii, Seville, 1491. 



