Chapter II: Book THE THIRD: Later Augmentors and Benefactors

1829–1870.

CHAPTER I.

_GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, UNDER THE
ADMINISTRATION, AS PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIAN, OF JOSEPH PLANTA._

_Notices of the Life of Joseph Planta, third
Principal-Librarian.—Improvements in the Internal Economy of the
Museum introduced or recommended by Mr. Planta.—His labours for
the enlargement of the Collections—and on the Museum
Publications and Catalogues.—The Museum Gardens and the Duke of
Bedford_ 515