1. A Telugu MS. on palm-leaves, brought from India by Sir Thos. Strange, formerly Chief Justice of Madras, together with a style employed for writings of this kind, and a pocket-knife. Given by Sir T. Strange's daughter, Mrs. Edmund Foulkes, in 1864. 2. Drawings and engravings of Buddhist idols; brought from a Joss-house in a Llama monastery in Pekin, in 1862, and given to the Library by Lieut.-Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles. 3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors. This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which it contains may be mentioned the following in particular:-- Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8, 1832, with the Duchess of Kent; Dec. 12, 1860. The Prince Consort, June 15, 1841; June 4, 1856; Jan. 9, 1857 (in company with his three eldest children); Dec. 12, 1860. Prince of Wales, Jan. 9, 1857; March 27, 1860; June 18, 1863. Princess of Wales, June 18, 1863. Duke of Wellington, Oct. 20, 1835 (in company with Q. Adelaide); Sept. 14, 1839; June 15, 1841; Aug. 20, 1844. Gul. Gesenius, Aug. 5, 1820. Sir John Franklin, 1829. Sir D. Wilkie, June 14, 1834. Bishop Selwyn, June 30, 1837. Chevalier Bunsen, Jan. 24, 1839; Aug. 20, 1844. Princes of Ashantee, June 10, 1840. Henry Hallam, Oct. 16, 1840. Bishop of Malabar, Mar Athanasius Abdelmesih, June 12, 1841. M. Berryer, Nov. 23, 1843. W. H. Prescott, June 24, 1850. Alfred Tennyson, June 21, 1855. A Siamese Prince, June 29, 1858. Lord Brougham, June 20, 1860. Lord Palmerston, July 2, 1862. Queen Emma of Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1865. Chinese Ambassadors, June 7, 1866. Until the year 1861 it was also the custom for all graduates of Cambridge and Dublin who were admitted ad _eundem_ to enter their names in this book; it is to this custom that we owe possession of the signature of the ex-Metropolitan of New Zealand[374]. 4. _New Testament_, said to be bound in a piece of a waistcoat of King Charles I. See p. 53. 5. Another, bound by the Sisters of Little Gidding. See p. 53. 6. _Xiphilini Epitome Dionis Nicæi_; Gr. 4to. Par. printed by Rob. Stephens, 1551. Bound in a handsomely tooled and gilt calf binding, in the Grolier style, with the badge of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, viz. the Bear and Ragged Staff, in the centre. Bequeathed by Selden. 7. _Bacon's Essays_; in a worked binding. See p. 51. 8. Specimen of the early _Block-books_, or books printed from engraved blocks before the invention of moveable types; being the Apocalypse, represented in a series of rudely-engraved scenes, with short explanatory descriptions. This is a copy of the edition called by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, in his _Principia Typographica_, the Second; it belonged to Mr. Douce, who bought it for thirty-one guineas at Mr. Inglis' sale[375].