INTRODUCTION. 
XXXlli 
of time* except the shutting of the House at 
four o’clock. Artists who are properly recom¬ 
mended, especially by a professor of the Royal 
Academy, are also allowed to draw from the 
Antique Marbles, or any other objects on which 
they may choose to exercise their skill. In 
general, every practicable facility is afforded that 
may render this Institution really useful to science 
and the arts, for which it is chiefly intended, as 
well as gratifying to the curiosity of the multi¬ 
tude, who incessantly resort to it in quest of 
amusement. 
IV. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE COLLECTIONS. 
The whole of these accumulated treasures are 
at present arranged in thirty-eight rooms, of the 
contents of which the following are the general 
titles : 
Rooms Page 
Lower Floor . 
I.— XII. Library of printed Books ............. . I 
Upper Floor . 
I. Modern Works of Art . 3 
II. Empty at present . .. 4 
III. Lansdown Manuscripts . . 4 
IV. Sloanean and Birch’s Manuscripts .. 5 
V. Harleian Manuscripts. . * . .... . ... * . 6 
