Chapter II

_INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued):—GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND INTERNAL
ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR HENRY ELLIS._

_Internal Economy of the Museum at the time of the death of Joseph
Planta.—The Literary Life and Public Services of Sir Henry
Ellis.—The Candidature of Henry Fynes Clinton.—Progress of
Improvement in certain Departments.—Introduction of Sir Antonio
Panizzi into the Service of the Trustees.—The House of Commons’
Committee of 1835–36.—Panizzi and Henry Francis Cary.—Memoir of
Cary.—Panizzi’s Report on the proper Character of a National
Library for Britain, made in October, 1837.—His successive
labours for Internal Reform.—And his Helpers in the work.—The
Literary Life and Public Services of Thomas Watts.—Sir A.
Panizzi’s Special Report to the Trustees of 1845, and what grew
thereout.—Progress, during Sir H. Ellis’s term of office, of the
several Departments of Natural History and of Antiquities_ 527

CHAPTER III.

_INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued):—GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND INTERNAL
ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR ANTONIO PANIZZI._

_The Museum Buildings.—The New Reading-Room and its History.—The
House of Commons’ Committee of 1860.—Further Reorganization of
the Departments.—Summary of the Growth of the Collections in the
years 1856–1866, and of their increased Use and Enjoyment by the
Public_ 583

CHAPTER IV.

_ANOTHER GROUP OF ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS.—THE SPOILS OF XANTHUS,
OF BABYLON, OF NINEVEH, OF HALICARNASSUS, AND OF CARTHAGE._

_The Libraries of the East.—The Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert,
and their Explorers.—William Cureton and his Labours on the MSS.
of Nitria, and in other Departments of Oriental Literature.—The
Researches in the Levant of Sir Charles Fellows, of Mr. Layard,
and of Mr. Charles Newton.—Other conspicuous Augmentors of the
Collection of Antiquities_ 608

CHAPTER V.

_THE FOUNDER OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY._

_The Grenvilles and their Influence on the Political Aspect of the
Georgian Reigns.—The Public and Literary Life of the Right
Honourable Thomas Grenville.—History of the Grenville Library_ 670

CHAPTER VI.

_OTHER BENEFACTORS OF RECENT DAYS._

_Recent Contributors to the Natural History Collections.—The Duke
of Blacas and his Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquities.—Hugh
Cuming and his Travels and Collections in South America.—John
Rutter Chorley, and his Collection of Spanish Plays and Spanish
Poetry.—George Witt and his Collections illustrative of the
History of Obscure Superstitions.—The Ethnographical Museum of
Henry Christy, and its History.—Colonial Archæologists and
British Consuls: The History of the Woodhouse Collection, and of
its transmittal to the British Museum.—Lord Napier and the
Acquisition of the Abyssinian MSS.—The Art Collections and
Bequests of Felix Slade.—The Travels and the Japanese Library of
Von Siebold_ 686