ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. I7 



Since the Keeper's last Annual Report, he has received as presents, or by purchase, — 



425 species of Plants of Asia Minor, collected by M. Balansa. 



720 species of Indian Plants, collected and presented by Drs. Hooker and Thomson. 



1,392 species of Plants of Ceylon, collected by Mr. Thwaites. 



18 specimens of Plants, and 30 of Fruits and Seeds, of Western Africa, collected and 

 presented by Dr. W. F. Daniell. 



242 specimens of Sea-weeds, collected in South Australia by Mr. Ray. 



496 species of Plants, collected in the islands of the South iPacific by Mr. M'Gillivray. 



340 species of Plants of Mexico, collected by M. Botteri. 



46 species of fungi, 8cc., collected at Vera Cruz by M. Salle. 



40.^ species of Plants of Northern Brazil, collected by Mr. Spruce. 



42 specimens of Vegetable Fossils, presented by the Kight honourable the Earl of Ennis- 

 killen. 



9 specimens of Fossil-wood from the Island of Antigua, presented by Peter Robertson, Esq. 



25 specimens of Fossil-wood, including numerous large specimens of Psarolites, fi-om 

 Muskingum, Ohio, presented by the late Charles Stokes, Esq. 



Robert Brown. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



Eight volumes of the works of Hollar have been arranged, completing the collection, which 

 is now contained in 19 volumes. 



A fourth volume of the works of Henry GoUzius has been arranged, and references to 

 the Peintre Graveur of Bartsch attached to each Print. 



A collection of the works of Marcde Bye has been formed during the present year, many 

 of them in rare and undescribed states; they have been arranged in two volumes, and the 

 reference to Bartsch attached to each Print. 



The Etchings of C. W. E. Dietrich have been placed in three volumes : the arrangement 

 of Linck, in his recently published Catalogue of this Master's works, having been adopted, 

 the reference to that work is attached to each Print. 



Catalogues have been written out of the works of Henry Goltzius, John Muller, and 

 Marc de Bye. 



One hundred and thirty-five Drawings have been mounted. 



Slips have been written out and arranged for an Alphabetical Catalogue of the Drawings 

 of the Artists of the several Italian Schools; attached to each name is a reference where 

 the Drawings of these Artists may be found in the several Collections. 



Four thousand two hundred and forty-nine articles have been entered in the Register of 

 Purchases and Presentations, the whole of which have been stamped, and the register mark 

 attached to each. 



The most important additions to the Collections have been — 



Italian School. — Two fine Illuminations of the fourteenth century. 



A Volume of Designs and Studies by Jacopo Bellino, the father of Giovanni and Gentile 

 Bellino. It is mentioned as being in the Casa Vendramino, in Venice, in 1530, in a 4t<). 

 volume, published at Bassano in 1800, by the learned Jacopo Morelli, Keeper of the 

 Library of St. Mark, under the title of " Notizia d'Opere di Disegno nella prima meta del 

 secolo XVI. in Padova, Cremona, Milano, Pavia, Bergamo, Crema, e Venezia. Scritta da 

 un Anonimo di quel tempo." In the Kunstblatt for 1840 are also some interesting 

 papers, together with a list of the greater portion of the subjects delineated in this curious 

 volume. 



Drawings also by Taddeo Gaddi, Raffaelle Sanzio, and Salvator Rosa. 



A Sulphur impression from a Niello Plate, an Engraving from which will be found in 

 " Duchesne, Essai sur les Nielles." It is described at page 205, No. 193, as " Trois 

 Religieux." 



An undescribed Print of the fifteenth century, representing the Virgin seated on a throne 

 with the Infant Christ on her lap : two Angels are soaring above, supporting a crown over 

 her head ; she is surrounded by the principal Saints of the order of St. Dominick. 



A Print by the Master of 1515. 



An Ornament on a dark ground, on which is inscribed, " Academia Lionardo Vinci." 



The Presentation in the Temple, not known to the elder M. Bartsch, but described by 

 his son in the recently printed Catalogue of the Imperial Collection at Vienna, at page 38, 

 number 308, where he states, that only three impressions are known. The Print is attributed 

 to Lorenzo Costa of Ferrara by M. Passavant, in the Kunstblatt of 1850. 



Books of Prints illustrating early Italian Art, by Ciampini, Bellermann, Quandt, Ternite, 

 Dr. E. Forster and Ramboux. 



A large number of Engravings from the works of the great masters of the several schools 

 of Italy. 



German School. — Drawings by Israel von Meckenen, Hollar, and Dietrich. 

 Btchings and Engravings by the Master of 1400, B. Schoen, A. Durer, Lautetisack, and 

 Brentel. Wood-cuts by Hans Holbein and Urse Graf. 



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