But in no department of the British Museum 

 is the want of accommodation for the collections 

 so striking as in that of Antiquities. Any one 

 entering the Roman Room,* immediately to 

 the left of the Entrance Hall, must regret that 

 objects are placed on its south side, v/here the 

 light is very deficient, whilst on the opposite side 

 busts and other objects are overcrowded ; the 

 statues and busts at the south end of the Egyptian 

 Saloon (first Grseco- Roman Room)^ are also badly 

 placed, both on account of want of space and of 

 suitable light ; the same may be said as to the 

 inconvenient crowding of the objects placed in the 

 third Grseco-Roman Room/ At the end of that 

 room a staircase leads to a part of the basement/ 

 whence visitors are forced to return the way they 

 have gone down. In other parts of the basement,*" 

 not yet open to the public,are objects of Antiquity, 

 to which access is obtained by another narrow 

 staircase,^ which gives the only means of ingress 

 and regress to and from dark rooms, in some of 

 which it is utterly impossible to see many of the 

 objects there kept/ Owing to the removal of the 

 remains of the pediment of the Parthenon from 

 the second^ to the first Elgin Room, the 

 frieze and metopes are now seen to much 



^ Plan II., 3. ^ Plan II., 8. 



^Plan II., 10. d Plan I., 1. 



«Plan L, 4, 7. ^ Plan II., QO. 



g Plan L, 7. i» Plan II., 18, 



