Chapter VII: Reconstructors and Projectors

_The Plans and Projects for the Severance and Partial Dispersion
of the Collections which at present form ‘The British Museum,’
and for their re-combination and re-arrangement_ 721

INDEX 763

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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I. VIEW OF THE GARDEN-FRONT OF OLD MONTAGU HOUSE,
THE FIRST ‘BRITISH MUSEUM;’ as it appeared at
the opening of the Institution to the Public in
1759 _Frontispiece._

II. VIEW OF THE OLD TOWNELEY GALLERY (built for the
reception of the Towneleian Marbles in 1805,
and pulled down on the erection of the existing _Vignette on
Museum) Title-page._

III. GROUND-PLAN OF THE PRINCIPAL FLOOR OF THE
ORIGINAL BRITISH MUSEUM OF 1759 325

IV. GROUND-PLAN OF THE SECONDARY FLOOR OF THE SAME 327

V. SUGGESTIONS MADE IN 1847 FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF
THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; being the
facsimile of a Plan inserted in a Pamphlet
(written in 1846) entitled ‘_Public Libraries _To face p._
in London and Paris_’ 556

VI. REDUCED COPY OF BENJAMIN DELESSERT’S ‘_PROJET
D’UNE BIBLIOTHÈQUE CIRCULAIRE_,’ 1835 587

VII. GENERAL BLOCK-PLAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, as it
was in 1857 589

VIII. GROUND-PLAN OF THE NEW OR ‘PANIZZI’ READING-ROOM,
and of the adjacent Galleries, 1857 590

IX. INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NEW READING-ROOM, 1857 591

X. COLOURED PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, as it was in 1862. _Copied from the _To face p._
Parliamentary Return, No. 97 of Session 1862_ 750

XI. COLOURED PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR &C., (as
above); TOGETHER WITH THE ALTERATIONS PROPOSED
TO THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY BY THE TRUSTEES OF
THE BRITISH MUSEUM; in their Minutes of
December, 1861, and January 21st, 1862, and in
their Letter to the Treasury of 11th February, _To face p._
1862. _Copied from the same Return_ 752

XII. COLOURED PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, as it was in 1862. _Copied from the _To face p._
same Return_ 754

XIII. COLOURED PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR, &C. (as above);
TOGETHER WITH THE ALTERATIONS PROPOSED TO THE
TREASURY BY THE TRUSTEES; in their Minutes of
December, 1861, and January, 1862, and in their
Letter of 11th February, 1862. _Copied from the _To face p._
same Return_ 756