1 2 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Fair copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Journal of Travels in the Netherlands, corrected 

 by his own hand. 



Captain Cook's Journal of his Third Voyage, in 1776 to 1779. — Autograph Copy. 



A volume of original Letters of Shenstone to Lady Luxborough, 1747 to 1759; 

 and a volume of Notes by Shenstune on the Paradise Lost. 



Correspondence of John Ellis, Secretary to the Duke of Ormond, and Under- 

 Secretary of State, in 82 volumes. A portion of the Letters are official, comjjrising 

 many from George Stepney, Minister at Vienna ; James Cressett, resident at the 

 Courts of Germany ; Matthew Prior, Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, and other 

 political agents abroad, as well as of A. Cardounel, Secretary to the Duke of 

 Marlborough. The private portion iiicludes numerous letters from Ireland, and an 

 interesting series from Humphrey Prideaux, Dean of Norwich, written chiefly from 

 Oxford. The bulk of the Correspondence is dated from 1690 to 1722. 



Original Correspondence of George Bubb (afterwards Dodington), Envoy in 

 Spain, in the years 1715 to 1717. In six volumes. 



Papers and Correspondence of Warren Hastings, Governor- General of India, in 

 268 volumes. They consist of a series of official copies of the Minutes of Proceed- 

 ings of the Council of Calcutta, Secret Department, in the years 1772 to 1785, and 

 of the proceedings in other Departments in some of those years ; drafts and copies 

 of many of his own letters during his service in India ; various papers relating to 

 Indian affairs ; a large collection of original letters addressed to him by numerous 

 Correspondents in India and England, from 1758 to the date of his death, including 

 letters of Lord Clive ; and papers relating to his Trial. A portion of the collection 

 was used by Mr. Gleig for his Memoirs of Warren Hastings. 



Edward A. Bond. 



Oriental Manuscripts. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



Full descriptions have been written of 335 MSS. for the Persian, 74 for the Ethiopic, 

 27 for the Arabic, and 1 for the Sanscrit Catalogues. 



A Descriptive List has been prepared of the Oriental MSS. acquired from July 1871 

 to the end of 1872. 



The same MSS. have been entered into the Oriental Register, and the classified 

 Oriental Inventory. 



The Descriptive List of the Oriental MSS. acquired during the years 1870-1872 has 

 been transcribed for the use of the Reading Room. 



Special Lists have been prepared of the Armenian, Hebrew, Hindi, Pali, Sanscrit, and 

 Turkish MSS. 



124 MSS. have been folioed, labelled, bound, and placed on the shelves. 



Syriac Catalogue. — The sheets 7 Z to 9 E and a to /{, containing the Indices and the 

 Preface, have been carried through the press. They complete the third and last Part of 

 the work, which is now ready for publication. Twenty photographic plates, exhibiting 

 all the varieties of Syriac writing from the 5th to the 13th century, have been prepared 

 as an Appendix to the same Part. 



1 1 . — A cquisitions. 



The MSS. added during the year to the Oriental Collection are 154 in number, viz., 

 7 acquired by donation or bequest, and 144 by purchase. 



They belong to the following classes : 



Arabic ---------46 



Turkish 46 



Persian ---------35 



Hebrew --____- 16 



Sanscrit -__-__-_3 



Grantha _______3 



Pali - - - - 2 



Cingalese -__-----! 



Hindi 1 



Chinese - __----i 



The following are a few of the most curious or valuable : 



Lankavatara and Ui>asanhara-jnana, two Buddhistic works in Sanscrit and in the 

 Nepaulese character. Presented by Professor Wm. Wright. 



Paritta. 



