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INTRODUCTION. 
G us lav us Bran¬ 
ded Esq. 
Thomas 
Tyrwhit£ ? Esq. 
Sir William 
Musgiave. 
ticularly in books relating to that branch of 
literature ; and among his manuscripts are several 
Collections of historical documents, correspon¬ 
dences of men of note, and copies of various 
State Papers, which he obtained from persons in 
high stations, with whom he lived in habits of 
familiar intercourse. 
In the year 1765, Gustavus Brander, of Christ 
Church, in Hampshire, Esq., made a considerable 
addition to the Museum, bv the donation of his 
fossils, chiefly collected by himself in Hamp¬ 
shire, of which a classical catalogue was drawn 
up and published by his friend and countryman, 
Dr. Solander, and to this he afterwards added 
many valuable donations of the same nature. 
Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq., a gentleman whose 
name will ever be revered, as long as true taste 
and learning are held in estimation, was pleased 
to bequeath to the Museum all the books in his 
select library which were not already in that 
Repository ; by which means about nine hundred 
volumes, chiefly classics, were, in the year 1786, 
added to the collection. And soon after, in the 
year 1800 , his example was followed by Sir Wil¬ 
liam Musgrave, Bart., who, by a similar bequest, 
enriched the Museum librarv with near two 
thousand 
