=1847.= The GRENVILLE LIBRARY. _Collected_ by the Right Hon. =Thomas Grenville= (Died 17 December, 1846). _Bequeathed_ by the Collector. [See BOOK III, Chapter 2.] (L) =1847.= The MICHAEL HEBREW LIBRARY. _Collected_ by =H. J. Michael=, of Hamburgh. _Purchased_ by the Trustees from his Executors. [See BOOK III, Chapter 4.] (LI) =1847.= JOHN ROBERT MORRISON’S CHINESE LIBRARY. _Collected_ by =J. R. Morrison= (son of the eminent Christian Missionary and Lexicographer—Died 1843). _Purchased_ from his Executors by a Parliamentary grant. [See BOOK III, Chapter 4.] (LII) =1848.= The CROIZET FOSSIL-MAMMALS. _Collected_ by =M. Croizet= in Auvergne. _Purchased_ by the Trustees. (LIII) =1851–1860.= The ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. Partly _discovered_ by =Austen Henry Layard=. Excavated at the public charge, and under the joint direction of the Trustees of the British Museum and of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in 1851 and subsequent years by the Discoverer, and by =H. Rassam=, and =W. K. Loftus=. [See BOOK III, Chapter 3.] (LIV) =1853.= The GELL DRAWINGS. _Drawn_ and _Collected_ by =Sir William Gell= (Died 4 February, 1836). _Bequeathed_ by the Honorable =Keppel Craven= (Died 1853). [See BOOK III, Chapter 3.] (LV) =1853.= The STEPHENS CABINET of BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY. _Collected_ by =James Francis Stephens= (Died 22 December, 1852). _Purchased_ by the Trustees. Although this Collection contained about 88,000 specimens, it cost the Trustees only £400. (LVI) =1854.= The DES-HAYES TERTIARY FOSSILS. _Collected_, in France, by =M. Des Hayes=. _Purchased_ by the Trustees. (LVII) =1855–1860.= The HALICARNASSIAN and CNIDIAN MARBLES. _Discovered_ and excavated by =C. T. Newton= (then Vice-Consul at Mitylene) and other Explorers (earlier and later). In part _Presented_ by =Lord Canning= of Redcliffe (then Ambassador at Constantinople); and in part excavated and transported by the Trustees, with the aid of Parliamentary grants made in 1855 and subsequent years. [See BOOK III, Chapter 3.] (LVIII) =1856.= The TEMPLE MUSEUM of ITALO-GREEK and ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. _Collected_ by =Sir William Temple= (Died 1856) during his Embassy at Naples. _Bequeathed_ by the Collector. [See BOOK III, Chapter 3.] (LIX) =1857.= The CAUTLEY FOSSILS from the Himalayas. _Collected_ by =Major Cautley=, during his service in India. _Purchased_ by the Trustees. (LX) =1858.= The BRUCHMANN FOSSIL PLANTS.