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, hy 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 representa tion 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. Presejited 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 live volumes folio, and privately distributed, by order 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth. A new and more compre¬ 
hensive Catalogue of the whole Library is preparing, and at press. 
