THE FOUNDER OF THE BANKSIAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.
The Life, Travels, and Social Influence, of Sir Joseph Banks.-The
Royal Society under his Presidency.-His Collections and their
acquisition by the Trustees of the British Museum.-Notices of
some other contemporaneous accessions
LATER AUGMENTORS AND
BENEFACTORS.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION, AS PRINCIPAL-
LIBRARIAN, OF JOSEPH PLANTA.
Notices of the Life of Joseph Planta, third Principal-Librarian.—
Improvements in the Internal Economy of the Museum introduced
or recommended by Mr. Planta.-His labours for the enlargement
of the Collections-and on the Museum Publications and Cata-
logues.-The Museum Gardens and the Duke of Bedford
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued) :-GROWTH, PRO-
GRESS, AND INTERNAL ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR HENRY ELLIS.
Internal Economy of the Museum at the time of the death of Joseph
Planta.-The Literary Life and Public Services of Sir Henry
Ellis.-The Candidature of Henry Fynes Clinton.-Progress of
Improvement in certain Departments.-Introduction of Sir Antonio
Panizzi into the Service of the Trustees.-The House of Commons'
Committee of 1835-36.-Panizzi and Henry Francis Cary.—
Memoir of Cary.—Panizzi's Report on the proper Character of a
National Library for Britain, made in October, 1837.—His suc-
cessive labours for Internal Reform.—And his Helpers in the work.
-The Literary Life and Public Services of Thomas Watts.-Sir
A. Panizzi's Special Report to the Trustees of 1845, and what grew
thereout.-Progress, during Sir H. Ellis's term of office, of the
several Departments of Natural History and of Antiquities
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued) :-GROWTH, PRO-
GRESS, AND INTERNAL ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR ANTONIO PANIZZI.
-ANOTHER GROUP OF ARCHEOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS.—
THE SPOILS OF XANTHUS, OF BABYLON, OF NINEVEH,
OF HALICARNASSUS, AND OF CARTHAGE.
THE FOUNDER OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY.
The Grenvilles and their Influence on the Political Aspect of the
Georgian Reigns.-The Public and Literary Life of the Right
Honourable Thomas Grenville.-History of the Grenville Library 670
OTHER BENEFACTORS OF RECENT DAYS.
Recent Contributors to the Natural History Collections.
Duke of Blacas and his Museum of Greek and Roman Anti-
quities.-Hugh Cuming and his Travels and Collections in South
America.-John Rutter Chorley, and his Collection of Spanish
Plays and Spanish Poetry.-George Witt and his Collections
illustrative of the History of Obscure Superstitions.—The Ethno-
graphical Museum of Henry Christy, and its History.-Colonial
Archeologists and British Consuls: The History of the Wood-
house Collection, and of its transmittal to the British Museum.—
Lord Napier and the Acquisition of the Abyssinian MSS.-The
Art Collections and Bequests of Felix Slade.-The Travels and the
Japanese Library of Von Siebold
RECONSTRUCTORS AND PROJECTORS.
The Plans and Projects for the Severance and Partial Dispersion of
the Collections which at present form The British Museum,' and
for their re-combination and re-arrangement
I. VIEW OF The Garden-Front of Old Montagu HOUSE, THE FIRST BRITISH MUSEUM;' as it appeared at the opening of the Institution to the Public in 1759 Frontispiece. II. VIEW OF THE OLD TOWNELEY GALLERY (built for the reception of the Towneleian Marbles in 1805, and pulled down on the erection of the existing Museum)
III. GROUND-PLAN OF THE PRINCIPAL FLOOR OF THE ORIGINAL BRITISH MUSEUM OF 1759 325 IV. GROUND-PLAN OF THE SECONDARY FLOOR OF THE SAME 327 V. SUGGESTIONS MADE IN 1847 FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; being the facsimile of a Plan inserted in a Pamphlet (written in 1846) entitled Public Libraries in London and Paris' To face p. 556 VI. REDUCED COPY OF BENJAMIN DELESSERT'S 'PROJET D'UNE BIBLIOTHÈQUE CIRCULAIRE, 1835
VII. GENERAL BLOCK-PLAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, as it
was in 1857
VIII. GROUND-PLAN OF THE NEW OR 'PANIZZI' READING-
ROOM, and of the adjacent Galleries, 1857 .
IX. INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NEW READING-ROOM, 1857
X. COLOURED PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, as it was in 1862. Copied from the Parliamentary
Return, No. 97 of Session 1862
To face p. 750
XI. COLOURED PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR, &c. (as above);
TOGETHER WITH THE ALTERATIONS PROPOSED TO THE
LORDS OF THE TREASURY BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE
BRITISH MUSEUM; in their Minutes of December, 1861,
and January 21st, 1862, and in their Letter to the
Treasury of 11th February, 1862. Copied from the same
Return
To face p. 752
XII. COLOURED PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, as it was in 1862. Copied from the same Return
XIII. COLOURED PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR, &C. (as above);
TOGETHER WITH THE ALTERATIONS PROPOSED TO THE
TREASURY BY THE TRUSTEES; in their Minutes of
December, 1861, and January, 1862, and in their Letter
of 11th February, 1862. Copied from the same Return
To face p. 756
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