The Collector obtained a large portion of this fine Cabinet of Entomology during his own travels in India, Java, and China. It consists chiefly of Coleopterous insects. (LXVIII) 1864. The WIGAN CABINET of COINS. Collected and Presented by Edward Wigan. [See Book III, Chapter 3.] (LXIX) 1864. The RHODIAN MARBLES. Excavated, at the charge of the Trustees, by MM. Salzmann and Biliotti, in 1863 and subsequent years. (LXX) 1864. The CURETON ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS. Collected by the late William Cureton, D.D. (Died 17 June, 1864). Purchased by the Trustees from his Executors. [See Book III, Chapter 3.] (LXXI) 1864. The WRIGHT HERBARIUM of CUBA and NEW MEXICO. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] TION. BOOK I, Chap. I. INTRODUC TION. (LXXII) 1864. The TRISTRAM CABINET of the ZOOLOGY of the HOLY LAND. Collected by the Reverend H. B. Tristram, M.A. Presented by the Collector. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXIII) 1865. The HEBREW LIBRARY of ALMANZI. This valuable series of Hebrew Manuscripts, &c. was collected by the late Joseph Almanzi, of Padua ; and was purchased by the Trustees of his Executors. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXIV) 1865. The ERSKINE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS. Collected by William Erskine, during his residence in India. Purchased by the Trustees. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXV) 1865. The MALCOLM PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. Collected by Sir John Malcolm (Died 31 May, 1833) during his Embassy to Persia. Purchased by the Trustees. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXVI) 1865. The KOKSCHAROW MINERALS. Collected by Colonel de Kokscharow. Pur chased by the Trustees. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXVII) 1865. The EPHESIAN MARBLES. Excavated, at the charge of the Trustees, by ViceConsul Wood. [See Book III, Chapter 3.] Book I, TION. (LXXVIII) 1865. The CHRISTY PRE-HISTORIC and ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Collected and Bequeathed by Henry Christy (Died 4 May, 1865). [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXIX) 1865. The BANK of ENGLAND CABINET of COINS and MEDALS. [See Book III, Chapter 1.] (LXXX) 1865. WITT'S ETHNIC MUSEUM. Collected and Presented by Henry Witt. [See Book III, Chapter 4. (LXXXI) 1866. The BLACAS MUSEUM. Collected by the Dukes of Blacas (The elder Collector died in 1839; the younger, in 1865). Purchased, by the Trustees, of the heirs of the Survivor. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] Book I, TION. (LXXXII) 1866. The WOODHOUSE MUSEUM. Collected by James Woodhouse, Her Majesty's Treasurer at Corfu (Died February, 1866). Bequeathed by the Collector. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXXIII) 1866. The CUMING CONCHOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Collected by Hugh Cuming (Died 1866). Acquired by the Trustees in 1866, partly by gift, and partly by purchase, under the directions of the Collector's Will. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXXIV) 1867. The HAWKINS COLLECTION OF ENGLISH POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL PRINTS. Collected by Edward Hawkins (Died 1867). Purchased by the Trustees. [See Book III, Chapter 1.] (LXXXV) 1868. The ABYSSINIAN ANTIQUITIES and MANUSCRIPTS. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXXVI) 1868. The SLADE ARCHEOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Collected by Felix Slade (Died 1868). Bequeathed by the Collector. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] (LXXXVII) 1869. The HAYS COLLECTION of EGYPTIAN ANTI QUITIES. [See Book III, Chapter 4.] As I have had occasion to observe in a former paragraph, the preceding list is, of necessity, an abridged list. It is by no means a complete or exhaustive one. The prescribed bounds-those of a single volume for a very wide and multifarious subject-compel the writer to treat his subject by way of selection. The reader is solicited to keep that fact in mind; as well for its bearing on the chapters which follow, as on the introductory chapter now under his eye. And in regard both to this brief enumeration of the successive component parts of the Museum, and to the biographical notices. of which it is the preliminary, the cautionary remark here repeated applies to every Department of the national repository. It holds good of the Natural History Collections, and of the Collections of Antiquities, no less than of the Collections of Printed Books and of Manuscripts. Among the many minor, but intrinsically important, Collections thus-compulsorily-passed over, in the present volume, are some of which brief notices have been given (by the same hand) in a preceding work, published in 1869. Those Notices,' however, relate exclusively to Book I, TION. |