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INTRODUCTION 
equally large number of attendants, in order to 
admit strangers, without restriction, cannot with 
safety be thrown open to the Public, in the same 
manner as some of the establishments of the same 
nature upon the Continent: but every practi¬ 
cable 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 multitude, 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 
Lower Floor . 
I.— XII. Library of printed Books 
Page 
Upper Floor 
I. Modern Works of Art .. ... 3 
II. Empty at present . „ . 4 
III. Lansdown Manuscripts „. .. .. .. .. 4 
IV. Sloanean and Birch’s Manuscripts .. .. .. $ 
V. Harleian Manuscripts ,, .. ,, • • . • 6 
