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



portraits of Ludovico and Beatrice introduced, the execution of which has been ascribed to 

 Girolamo, a celebrated miniature painter of Milan. 



The orioinal Account Books of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., from 1509 to 1518 ; kept 

 by John Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber, and signed thronghout by these Sovereigns, 



Two volumes of Original Letters and Papers on the Public Events and Ecclesiastical 

 Affairs of England and the Low Countries; addressed to Robert Beale (Envoy in the 

 Netherlands, and Clerk of the Privy Council), Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Earl of 

 Leicester, from 1569 to 1593, 



Six volumes of the Original Correspondence of the Marechal de Breze with Cardinal 

 Richelieu, Bouthillier, de Charnace, deChavigny, de Noyer, and others, from 1627 to 1649. 



The Original Correspondence of Captain Adam Baynes, ai.p, for Leeds, extending from 

 1641 to 1666, and forming, when bound, eleven volumes folio. Presented by the Kev. 

 Adam Baynes. 



Archbishop Fenelon's Autograph Notes for his Defence against Bossuet, Bishop of 

 M eaux, written on the margins of a printed copy of the latter's " Relation sur le Quietisme," 

 8vo., 1698, 



A volume cf Original Letters of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, and Charles Duke 

 of Shrewsbury and his wife, addressed to the Viscountess Longueville, between 1703 and 

 1713. 



A very large and valuable collection of Autograph Letters and Papers, selected from the 

 sales of the late Francis Moore, Henry Belward Ray, and Richard Capel Lambe, The 

 Royal Letters embrace specimens of the Sovereign families of England and Scotland, 

 France, Naples, and Sicily, the House of Medici, the Popes, German States, Spain and 

 Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Russia, from the 15th century to the 

 present time. Also an extensive series of Autographs of the Statesmen, Eminent Persons, 

 Scholars, and Artists of the same countries. Among the latter, as of great rarity, may be 

 noticed the names of Hollar, Flecknoe, Sterne, Hogarth, Pierre Corneille, Nic, Poussin, 

 Le Brun, Boileau, Racine, Poggio, Politian, Tasso, Vida, Lud, Carraccio, Guercino, 

 P. Veronese, Magliabecchi, Rembrandt, Rubens, Melanchthon, Peter Martyr, Bucer, 

 Beza, &c. 



24. The number of deliveries of Manuscripts to Readers in the Reading Rooms, during 

 the past year, amounts to 20,780, and to Artists and others, in the rooms of the Department, 

 to 6,539, exclusive of the volumes examined by numerous parties of visitors (3,249 persons), 



Frederic Madden. 



Department of Antiquities, 

 I. — Arrangement. 



Public Galleries. — A further portion of the large Sculptures in the Egyptian Gallery 

 has been fixed on polished granite pedestals, and explanatory titles have been painted on 

 these, and on other pedestals of Sculptures, 



The Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Sepulchral Monuments have been collected in one of 

 the rooms of the Basement ; a Columbarium has been there fitted up for the reception of the 

 Roman Cinerary Urns ; and considerable progress has been made in the arrangement of the 

 entire collection, on a system intended to illustrate the different modes of Sepulture. 



The Bronzes and Ivories from Nimrud have been transferred to new table cases in the 

 Assyrian Gallery, 



Two cargoes of Assyrian Antiquities, the first brought by the Christiana Carmel, the 

 second by the Manuel, the result of excavations carried on by Mr. Rassam, Mr. Loftus, and 

 Mr. Taylor, under the directions of Lieut.-Colonel Sir H, C. Rawlinson, k,c, b., have been 

 received and unpacked, and the Sculptures arranged partly in one of the rooms of the Base- 

 ment, and partly in a small room adjoining the Nimrud Side Gallery, for temporary exhi- 

 bition during the erection of the new apartment ordered for their reception. 



The large Sculptures from the Pediments of the Parthenon have been transferred to the 

 New Greek Room, and some progress has been made in the re-arrangement of the other 

 Athenian Monuments in this and the Elgin Room, 



A collection of Greek Sepulchral StelcB, obtained from the Russian Museum of Kertch, 

 and presented by the War Department, has been arranged in the Sepulchral Basement 

 Room. 



The Anglo-Roman Sculptures and Mosaics have been re-arranged in the Roman Gallery, 

 which has been ornamentally painted. 



The collection of miscellaneous Greek Antiquities, excavated by Mr. Newton at Calymnos 

 and in its neighbourhood, has been temporarily arranged for exhibition, till more permanent 

 provision can be made for its accommodation. 



The Temple collection, of which soine particulars are given under the head oi Acquisitions, 

 has been packed and removed from Naples to the Museum, and is provisionally arranged 

 for exhibition in the second Egyptian Room. 



Amongst the smaller Antiquities, the following arrangements have been completed : — 

 (a) In the Egyptian collection : — ■ 



102 tablets have been catalo2ued, 

 205 objects have been mounted. 



46 tablets 



