32 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Engravings. — By Hogarth (a proof before all letters of " The March to Finchley "). Fine 

 and interesting proofs and etchings by Strange, WooUett, Raimbach, and J. H. Robinson. 



Upwards of one thousand portraits have been added to the English series ; also some 

 curious broadsides. Many of them rare, particularly a finely engraved small whole length 

 of Mary Queen of Scots, apparently the work of Crispin Passe, not hitherto known, and 

 the engraving, by R. Elstracke, of Prince Frederick Count Palatine and the Princess 

 Elizabeth, which sold in Sir Mark Sykes's sale for 61 guineas. 



W. Hoohham Carpenter. 



Note. — The work of copying and lithographing the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Assyria has 

 been continued during the past year. The result up to the 23d January 1865 is reported 

 to be as follows: — 



Three additional sheets of the miscellaneous tablets have been copied on stone, and 37 

 sheets have been corrected and printed since last year's report, completing the second 

 volume. 



This volume is now being indexed preparatory to being bound and issued. 



Vaiious additional inscriptions have been copied. 



British Museum, A. Panizzi, 



8 May 1865. Principal Librarian. 



