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ROOM 
V—VIII. 
FIFTH ROOM ; 
SIXTH ROOM; 
SEVENTH ROOM. 
These apartments are at present occupied by 
Sir Joseph Banks’s Library. 
In the centre of the sixth room the general 
collection of insects is preserved in cabinets. 
In the seventh room, near the third window 
hang three specimens of minute writing, form¬ 
ing the portraits of Queen Anne, Prince George 
of Denmark, and the Duke of Gloucester their 
son, with a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton in bas 
relief. 
Near the door of entrance from the sixth 
room hangs an original deed in Latin, written 
on papyrus, being a conveyance of some land 
to a monastery; dated Ravenna, A 0 572, bought 
at the sale of the Pineili library. And opposite 
to it is a large specimen of the reed (Cyperus 
Papyrus ) of which that kind of paper is made. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
The Cases No. 1 to 4, are intended to con¬ 
tain a collection of impressions from ancient 
seals, royal, baronial, monastic, ecclesiastical 
(not monastic), municipal and private, recently 
made for and presented to the Museum by Mr. 
Thomas Doubleday. The arrangement of these 
impressions is in progress. 
The 
