3 
GROUND FLOOR. 
This floor, consisting of sixteen rooms, originally con¬ 
tained the Library of Printed Books *, now removed to 
the North side of the New Square. These are at present 
used as store and sorting-rooms. 
The Entrance Hall contains 
A statue in Marble of Shakspeare, by Roubilliac. Be¬ 
queathed to the British Museum , after the death of his 
Widow , by David Garrick , Esq . 
A statue of the Hon. Anne Seymour Darner, holding in 
her hands a small figure of the Genius of the Thames. 
Presented by Lord Frederick Campbell . 
A gilt figure of Gaudma, a Burmese idol; and the sym¬ 
bolical representation of his foot. Both presented by Capt . 
Marry at, R.N. 
Against the pier between the iron Gates which lead to 
the staircase, is a statue of the late Sir Joseph Banks, 
by Chantrey. It represents him seated in an arm-chair, 
holding a scroll in his left hand. The figure is raised 
upon a marble pedestal. Presented by the personal 
Friends , at whose expense the statue was made . 
On the other side of the pier, is a specimen of Hindoo 
sculpture, discovered in 1809 , near the banks of the 
sacred river Nerbudda; a fragment, probably, of an 
ancient temple. Presented by D. D. Inglis , Esq. 
Before the window on the left, adjoining the messenger’s 
small room, is a Hippopotamus. Presented by the Trus¬ 
tees of the Hunterian Collection of the Royal College of 
Surgeons . 
By the side of the staircase, in the passage leading to 
the Gallery of Antiquities, are three specimens of the 
genus Rhinoceros, from Southern Africa,—viz., R. Ketloa 
—R. Africanus, young—and R. Simus. 
* An Alphabetical Catalogue of this Library was printed in the year 
1787, in two volumes folio; and .another published, in seven volumes 
8vo, 1813—1819, containing, as far as possible, the accessions to the 
latter year. A Catalogue of the Royal Library, given to the Museum in 
1823, was printed in five volumes folio, and privately distributed, by order 
of his late Majesty King George the Fourth. A new and more com¬ 
prehensive Catalogue of the whole Library is preparing, and at press. 
