To the sculptures brought from Phigaleia into England in 1815, several missing fragments have been added subsequently. A peasant living near Paulizza had carried off a piece of the frieze to decorate, or to hallow, his hut. This fragment was procured by Mr. Spencer STANHOPE in 1816. The Chevalier BRÖNDSTED added other fragments in 1824. Only one entire slab of the original sculpture is wanting. [Sidenote: PURCHASE OF THE SECOND TOWNELEY COLLECTION, 1814.] Almost contemporaneously with the accessions which came to the Museum as the result of the explorations in 1814 of Mr. COCKERELL and his fellow-travellers in Arcadia, a considerable addition was made to the Towneley Gallery by the purchase of a large series of bronzes, gems, and drawings, and of a cabinet of coins and medals, both Greek and Roman, all of which had been formed by the Collector of the Marbles. These were purchased from Mr. TOWNELEY’S representatives for the sum of eight thousand two hundred pounds. Among other conspicuous additions, made from time to time, a few claim special mention. Among these are the _Cupid_, acquired from the representatives of Edmund BURKE; the _Jupiter_ and _Leda_, in low relief, bought of Colonel de BOSSET; and the _Apollo_, bought in Paris, at the sale of the Choiseul Collection. [Sidenote: MINOR ANTIQUITIES OF THE ELGIN COLLECTION.] Among the minor Greek antiquities which came to the British Museum in 1816, along with the sculptures of the Parthenon, are the fine Caryatid figure, and the very beautiful Ionic capitals, bases, and fragments of shafts, from the double temple of the Erectheium and Pandrosos at Athens,—part of which, like the Temple of Neptune, was used by the Turks, in Lord ELGIN’S time, as a powder-magazine. Acquisitions still more valuable than these were the grand fragment of the colossal _Bacchus_ in feminine attire, which Lord ELGIN brought from the Choragic monument of Thrasyllus; the statue of _Icarus_ (identified by comparison with a well-known low-relief in rosso antico formerly preserved in the Albani Collection); and the noble series of casts from the frieze of the Theseium and from that of the Choragic monument of Lysicrates. The Collection also included many statues’ heads and fragments of great archæological interest, but of which the original localities are for the most part unknown, and a considerable series of sepulchral urns. After the Elgin Marbles, the next important acquisition in the Department of Antiquities was that made by the purchase, in 1819, of the famous ‘_Apotheosis of Homer_.’ This marble had been found, almost two centuries before, at Frattocchi (the ancient ‘Bovillæ’), about ten miles from Rome on the Appian road, and had long been counted among the choicest ornaments of the Colonna Palace. It cost the Trustees one thousand pounds. Then, in 1825, came the noble bequest of Mr. Richard Payne KNIGHT.