INTRODUCTION, 
XUl 
ether Royal Donations, though not of such Sta. 
, . Curiosities. 
extent as those just mentioned, must not, how¬ 
ever, be here altogether omitted: such are 
a collection of Natural and Artificial Curiosities 
from the N. W. Coast of America, brought 
home, in 179 b, by Mr. Menzies ; and several 
single books of great value and utility. 
Lastly, our army in Egypt having acquired, 
by the capitulation of Alexandria in 1801 , 
many articles of Egyptian antiquities, which 
had been selected and shipped with a view of 
being transported to France; these acquisitions 
were sent to England in 1802 , and were imme¬ 
diately ordered by his Majesty to be placed in 
the British Museum. 
E'^yptian 
Antiquitiesm 
The number of antiquities contained in the Parliament, 
- - . . . ‘Ill Trip. HamiltG- 
Museum was origmally so inconsiderable as man CMkcaon^ 
scarcely to deserve any particular notice; but 
this deficiency was amply supplied when, in the 
year 1772 , the admirable collection of Sir Wil¬ 
liam Hamilton, K. B. was added to the Reposi¬ 
tory. Sir William Hamilton having, during a 
long residence at Naples as his Majesty’s Envoy, 
had many favorable opportunities of acquiring a 
great number of articles of Greek and Roman 
antiquity, particularly the largest store then 
known 
