ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUP.I. 



Spanish, and Greek. The number of ships represented on the Atlantic in this Map are 

 meant to indicate the great amovmt of intercourse between Europe and America. 



Plan of Augsburg, by Hamitz Eogel, in 1563. 



A collection of 1,532 engraved Maps, Plans, Views, and 48 topographical drawings, 

 referring to Great Britain, arranged in counties. 



49 prints and water-colour drawings, and 3 photographs of the old British Museum 

 Buildings, mounted on 27 sheets folio. 



65 prints, 5 photographs, and 1 drawn ground-plan of the new British Museum Buildings, 

 mounted on 52 sheets folio. 



A large model of Mount Etna, by Captain Pistoja. Scale, 1*50,000. Cast in 

 copper. 



And the following presentations : — 



A collection of 226 drawn views, ground-plans, and engravings, on 130 sheets, of 

 churches, castles, abbeys, &c., in England and Wales ; executed and presented by the 

 Rev. Prascentor and Prebendary Mackenzie Walcott. 



Ta^o lithographs of the funeral of Thorwaldsen, and a view in Copenhagen from the 

 Thorwaldsen Museum ; 78 drawn views in Pome and South Italy, by Lieutenant 

 r. Pranks ; a volume of 39 views in the Faroe Islands, taken by Lieutenant F. Franks, 

 when with Captain Kater on the expedition for determining the length of the pendulum, 

 in 1818 ; and a volume of 62 views in North America, drawn by Lieutenant Franks in 

 1824 ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq., f.r.s. 



24 Plans of British Earthworks, on 24 sheets ; executed and presented by W. M. 

 Flinders Petrie, Esq. 



A Map of the Tagus, with Plan of Lisbon, sho^Adng the embarkation of Catharine of 

 Braganza, lithographed from the unique etching by Dirk Stoop, in the Print 

 Department, British Museum; presented by the late Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Bart., 



K.T., M.P. 



A valuable collection of M S. Charts and views of different parts of China, di-awn under 

 the direction of Messrs. John Reeves, senior and junior ; presented by Mrs. Reeves, of 

 Woodhays, Wimbledon, 



E. H. Major. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. Class- Catalogue. — Additional description- slips have been inserted in the divisions 

 of Theology, Single State Letters, Private Letters, Proclamations, Accounts, Law, 

 Liturgies, Classics, French History, Parliament, Biography and Heraldry, State Trials, 

 Army and Navy. 



The undated Letters and Papers from the Cotton Collection have been examined, and 

 chronologically arranged. 



2. Catalogue of Romances. — Articles in forty different manuscripts have been described ; 

 and the copy prepared for the sections of Classical Romances, British and English Tradi- 

 tions, Prophecies of Merlin, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, has been further revised. 



Sheets B to M have been corrected and printed off. 



3. Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts. —The following Manuscripts have been described : 

 —Royal 15 B. XII, XIX; Cotton Tiberius B.V., Caligula A. XV, Nero A. II, Vitellius 

 C. Ill; Harley 647, 2,506, 2,666, 2,688, 2,725, 2,767, 3,072, 3,091, 3,095, 3,771, 4,980, 

 5,251 ; Arundel 514 ; Additional 15,600, 21,910. 



4. Catalogue of Spanish Manuscripts. — The second volume of the Catalogue of Spanish 

 Manuscripts, compiled by Don Pascual Gayangos, has been printed off. 



5. Catalogue of Additions.— Greek and Coptic Papyri acquired in 1854-1875 have 

 been_ described. Sheets 3 C to 3 Y of the second volume of the printed Catalogue of 

 Additional MSS. and Charters, detached Seals and Casts, Papyri, and Egerton MSS. 

 and Charters, acquired in 1854-1875, have been revised and printed off, and the volume 

 completed. The slips of Index to the two volumes of Catalogue of Additions for 1854- 

 1875, have been revised for the years 1854-1871, 1873. 



6. Catalogue of Ugerton Manuscripts.— The descriptions of Egerton MSS. 1789-2399, 

 acquired m the years 1859-1875, have been revised for the printed Catalogue of Additions. 



7. Catalogue of Rolls, Charters, and Seals.— Harley Charters 58 L 1-53, and Additional 

 25,928-25,958 acquired in the year 1877, have been described. 



Descriptions of Harley Charters 43 A. 9-81, 45 H. 48-47 L 48, 51 C 51-51 H 34 

 and Additional 18,885-24,471, 24,795-24,801, 24,820-24,884, have been revised. ' ' 



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