INDEX. 
229 
Australian ethnographical speci- 
mens, 143 ; meteorite, 186 ; 
plants (drawings and speci- 
mens), 211 
Autographs and autograph ical 
works, 13 — in printed books, 9 
Axe-heads, 133 
Babel; Tower of. Tablet (Chal- 
dean, cuneiform), 97 
Baboons, 151 
Babylonia, miscellaneous ob- 
jects from, 93 — inscribed stones, 
&c, ] 03— ornaments, 139. See 
Assyrian and Babylonian 
Antiquities. 
Balawat, bronze reliefs of gates 
from, 106 
Barberini vase, 119, 139 
Barium, specimen, J 94 
B asking-shark, 148 
Bath of the ancients, articles 
illustrating, 121 
Batrachia, 165 
Bats, 148— fossil, 178 
Beads used in the African trade, 
140 
Bees' nests, 163, 167 
Beetles, 169 
Bells, Assyrian, 102— Irish, 137 
Beryl, specimens, 197 
Bethlehem, objects from, 117 
Biblia Pauperum, 2 
Biblical manuscripts, early, 16 
Birds, 155 — eggs, 166 — nests, 
163, 167 — nests of British 
birds, 167— fossil, 176, 178— 
publications, 217 
Blacas collection of antiquities, 
xiv — ornaments, 139 
Block-books, 2 
Bloodstone, specimens, 194 
Book of St. Albans, 8 
Bookbindings, 11, 15, 137 
Boomerangs, Australian, 143 
Botanical collections, xvii, 199 
Branchidse, sculptures from, 80 
Breccia from Les Eyzies, &c, 
133 
Bricks, Assyrian, 103 ; Egyptian, 
116, 117 
British animals, publications, 22 1 
■ — antiquities, xv, 132 — birds 
and nests, 167 — fishes, 167 — 
mammalia, 167 — Museum, his- 
torical sketch, xi — reptiles, 167 
Broadsides, 10 
Bronze Period, objects of the, 
133 
Bronzes, Assyrian, 97,102, 103 ; 
Egyptian, 114; Etruscan, 128; 
Greek, 128; Roman, 128 
Bulls (human-headed), colossal, 
98, 99, 106 
Burmese ethnographical speci- 
mens, 141 
Burns, Robt., punch-bowl, 137 
Butterflies, Hewitson collection, 
162 
Byzantine ornaments, 138 
Cactaceae, 208 
Calcite, specimens, 195 
Calcium, specimens, 194 
Caledonite, specimens, 198 
Cameos, 139 
Candelabra, Roman, 129 
Carbonates, specimens, 194 
Carbuncle, specimens, 197 
Cards (Playing), exhibited in the 
King's library, 59 — Indian 
141 
Carnelian, specimens, 194 
