44 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Eeichenbach, of Hamburg, for his works on Orchidece ; Mr. T. P. James, of Cambridge, 

 United States, for his works on Mosses; M. Barlsey, of Geneva, for his Monograph on 

 EpiloMum ; Dr. Wittmack, of Berlin, for his Monograph on MarcgraviacecB, and Baron 

 von Ettingshausen, for his work on the Tertiary Plants of Britain. Among British 

 Botanists the following may be specified : — Prof. Bentley, in connection with Bentley 

 and Trimen's " Medicinal Plants "; Mr, C. B. Clarke, for his work on the Flora of 

 India ; Mr. J, G. Baker, for his various systematic memoirs ; Dr. I. B. Balfour, for his 

 Monograph of the Pandanacea ; the Rev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. Larbalestier, and Mr. 

 Joshua, in connection Avith their investigations into British Lichens ; Mr. Holmes, Curator 

 of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, for his investigations in connection with 

 officinal plants ; Mr. Christy, in the prosecution of his inquii'ies into the plants of 

 commerce; Dr. Braithwaite, for his works on British Mosses; Mi-. Broome and Mr. 

 Ho wse, for the investigation of British Fungi ; the Messrs. Groves for their work on 

 Characea; Mr. J. S. Gardner, for his investigations into the plants of the Tertiary Clays 

 of Bournemouth; and Messrs. Packe, De Crespigny, Grindon, Churchill, Stratton, 

 Bennett, Mansel-Pleydell, Glasspoole, Boulger, Gray, JacksoUj and Newbould, for the 

 critical study of European and British Plants. 



fVm. Carrutliers, 



Department op Pkints and Drawings. 



Mr. Stephens, having completed the thii-d volume of the Catalogue of Satirical 

 Prints and Drawings, has proceeded with and nearly completed the preparation of the 

 fourth, the text of which begins with the year 1761, and continues to illusti-ate the famous 

 men and women of the middle of the last century, from almost immediately after the 

 accession of George the Third to the Throne. The leading personages displayed by the 

 satires now in question, and the more important events illustrated by this volume, are as 

 follows: — The alleged intimacy of the King's mother and the Earl of Bute, the source 

 of innumerable bitter satires, which occurred in essays, prints, and woodcuts; " Gisbal, an 

 Hyperborean Tale," the most scandalous of all these brochures, was Invaluable in 

 elucidating the engravings, as " Gisbal " stood for the Earl, and " Bathsheba" represented 

 the Princess. " The Scot's Scourge," " British Antidote," " Political and Satyrlcal 

 History," the last continued from volume the third, are other curious publications of the 

 kind. Other subjects are furnished by Pitt, Alderman Beckford, his staunch supporter, 

 called " The Creole "; C. Churchill ; Fox ; Hogarth, as the " Butyfier," and his later 

 works, in which are included the satirical portraits of Wilkes and Churchill ; Smollett, and 

 the "Briton"; A. Murphy as "the Auditor"; "The North Briton"; "Wilkes and 

 Liberty"; Sterne and his " Sermons"; Scotch immigration; the Cock Lane Ghost; 

 the Sign Board Exhibition; the " Society of Artists"; the " Society of Arts"; Artists' 

 Quai'rels; the foundation of the Royal Academy ; Paul Sandby ; the Marquis Townshend, 

 a series of whose admirable political satires illustrate the third volume of the catalogue ; 

 Dr. Johnson and his pension ; reforms effected by Earl Talbot In the Royal kitchen, and the 

 severe Instances of Scotch "Economy" : Mr. H. Howard; the Duke of Bedford and the 

 Peace of Paris; Lord Le Despenser (Sir F. Dashwood, the '' Monk of Medmenham"), 

 his "Excise" and "Cyder Act"; Wesley; Wliitefield, his Tabernacles and followers; 

 "Jemmy Twitcher," his vices and vagaries; the Dukes of Cumberland and York, against 

 Lord Bute and his " protector"; Rousseau; Early Troubles in America; Wilkes as M. P. 

 and Alderman ; the " Inferior Clei'gy " ; Oxford squabbles; Home Tooke and the election 

 at Brentford; Hurke ; India; Mrs. Cornely's masquerades; Lords Chatham, Holland, 

 Camden, Mansfield, and North; Carlton House "Coterie"; the Prince of Wales; 

 Chevalier D'Eon; "Junius," by means of an unprecedented series of illustrations ; 

 '•■ Farmer George " and his Wife ; Macaronies ; " Iphigeuia," Duchess of Kingston ; the 

 Duchess of Grafton; Lady Craven; Vestris ; Chevalier Taylor; " Co vent Garden"; 

 Drury Lane. 



An Important section of the I'Ich and varied collection of Early German and Flemish 

 Prints, by anonymous masters of the fifteenth and first quarter of the sixteenth centuries, 

 possessed by the Department, is in process of cataloguing by Dr. Willshlre. This section 

 includes numerous examples of engraving in the " Maniere criblee," of early coloured 

 woodcuts, and of impressions from blocks and plates engraved in and printed by 

 peculiar and exceptional methods. In addition to the descriptions of these works, a full 

 account is intended to be ^iven of one or two extremely rare and probably unique series 

 of early engravings, such as, for example, the Impressions from the engraved ornamental 

 copper-plates of the "Corona Luminaria " of the Cathedral at Aix-la-Chapelle, the 

 "Passion" of the Master of 1457, a processional cross of the year 1129, etc. It is 

 expected that the printing of the catalogue may be completed by the end of the spring. 



The archives of the Department, which hitherto, in consequence of the staff" being too 

 much engaged in cataloguing and arranging the collection, have not been kept in so 

 systematic a manner as might be desired, have this year been put in thorough order. 



