INTRODUCTION* 
€: equal to most, and in many parts superior to 
" any other similar Collection, which any of 
tfc them have had opportunities of viewing in 
" this and other Countries ; and that, upon 
* e accurate examination, they had estimated the 
(i value of it at ,^13 ,7 2 7.' —This sum was ac- 
cordingly voted ; and proper dispositions having 
been made, this, and the Collection already in 
the Museum, were incorporated, the whole was 
methodically arranged, and the most ostensible 
and interesting parts are now exposed to public 
inspection in the Saloon. 
A considerable deficiency in the Library of Print- ^e^m-™^ 
ed Books, respecting the History and Topography ™^ ct ^ n B °£ 
of the British Islands, and the possessions of the tish History. 
British Empire, having been noticed and repre- 
sented to the House of Commons, the House 
was pleaded to grant in the year 1812, the sum 
bf one thousand pounds towards enabling the 
Trustees to make up that deOciency ; and the 
like sum was voted the two subsequent years for 
the same purpose. 
In the month of June 1813, an application S^ va 
was made to the House of Commons offering* 
for sale the Library of Francis Hargrave, Esq. 
T> one 
