I have had occasion, already, to mention that many years before his death Mr. GRENVILLE formed a very high estimate of the eminent attainments and still more eminent public services of Sir A. PANIZZI. No man had a better opportunity of knowing, intimately, the merits of the then Assistant-Keeper of the printed portion of our National Library. Mr. GRENVILLE showed his estimate in a conclusive and very characteristic way. [Sidenote: _Minutes of Inquiry_, &c., 1848, and subsequent years, pp. 141, seqq.] He had earnestly supported (in the year 1835) the proposal of a Sub-committee of Trustees that Mr. PANIZZI’S early services—more especially in relation to the cataloguing of what are known, at the Museum, as ‘the French Tracts,’ but also as to other labours—should be substantially recognised by an improvement of his salary. At a larger meeting, the recommendation of the smaller sub-committee was cordially adopted in the honorary point of view, but was set virtually aside, in respect to the ‘honorarium,’ That latter step Mr. GRENVILLE so resented that he rose from the table, and never sat at a Trustee meeting again. [Sidenote: _Minutes of Evidence_, as above.] He many times afterwards visited the Museum; and I well remember the impression made upon my own mind by his noble appearance, at almost ninety years of age, on one of the latest of those visits—not very long before his death. But in the Committee Room he never once sat, during the last eleven years of his life. [Sidenote: CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MARKED THE GIFT TO THE NATION OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY.]