Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
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_Collected_ by =Bruchmann= at and near Œningen. _Purchased_ by the
Trustees.
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=1859.= The CARTHAGINIAN ANTIQUITIES.
_Discovered_,—and excavated (partly at the cost of the Trustees),—by
=Nathan Davis= and others, during the year 1856 and subsequent years.
The Davis Collection includes a series of Phœnician Inscriptions, some
of which are of great antiquity. _Purchased_ from the Collector.
[See BOOK III, Chapter 3.]
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=1860.= The ALLAN-GREG CABINET of MINERALS.
_Collected_, mainly, by =R. H. Greg=, of Manchester. _Purchased_ by the
Trustees.
[See BOOK III, Chapter 4.]
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=1860.= The GARDNER HERBARIUM of BRAZIL.
[See BOOK III, Chapter 4.]
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=1860.= The CYRENE MARBLES.
_Discovered_, and excavated by Lieutenants =R. M. Smith= and =Porcher=,
under firmans from Constantinople, and at the charge of the Trustees, in
1860 and subsequent years.
[See also No. LXVI under the year ‘1863,’ and
BOOK III, Chapter 3.]
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=1862.= The HAEBERLEIN FOSSILS.
_Collected_ by =Haeberlein=. Brought from Solenhofen; and _Purchased_ by
the Trustees.
(LXVI)
=1863.= The SICILIAN ANTIQUITIES.
_Discovered_ and excavated by =George Dennis= (Her Majesty’s Consul at
Benghazi), under direction from the Foreign Office, in 1862 and
subsequent years. _Presented_ by =Earl Russell=.
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=1863.= The BOWRING COLLECTION of FOREIGN INSECTS.
_Collected_ by =John Bowring=. _Presented_ by the Collector.
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.
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=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.
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=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.]
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=1864.= The WRIGHT HERBARIUM of CUBA and NEW MEXICO.
[See BOOK III, Chapter 4.]
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=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.]
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