. Ireland in London. mwell-road, SouthKensington. Among the various persons from whom addi-tions to the Museum collections have been sinceacquired four Irishmen aae noticeable. A valuable store of manuscripts was boughtfrom William Petty Fitzmaurice, First Marquisof Lansdowne, a statesman of considerable politicalknowledge and detailed acquaintance with foreignaffairs, who was born in 1737, and died in 1805,and who employed the later years of hie life in pur- 92 Ireland in London. chasing the libraries and MSS. of various sum of £4,925 paid for the LansdowneMSS. is noteworthy as th
. Ireland in London. mwell-road, SouthKensington. Among the various persons from whom addi-tions to the Museum collections have been sinceacquired four Irishmen aae noticeable. A valuable store of manuscripts was boughtfrom William Petty Fitzmaurice, First Marquisof Lansdowne, a statesman of considerable politicalknowledge and detailed acquaintance with foreignaffairs, who was born in 1737, and died in 1805,and who employed the later years of hie life in pur- 92 Ireland in London. chasing the libraries and MSS. of various sum of £4,925 paid for the LansdowneMSS. is noteworthy as the first grant made byParliament for the improvement of the nationalcollection of books in the Museum. In 1832 the nucleus of the stock of Irish acquired by purchase from James Hardiman,author of the History of Galway, editor of thewell-known Hardimans Minstrelsy, and one ofthe most prominent members of the Royal IrishAcademv in his day; and an addition to this col-lection was made in 1358 from the library of. BRITISH MUSEUM, Henry Monck Mason, , an Irish barrister,author of a learned volume on the Ii ish Parlia-ment and a Grammar of the Irish Language, whodied in that year. A splendid cabinet of Oiientalcoins was bequeathed to the Museum in 183b byDr. William Marsden, a Dublin man, who hadbeen nearly all his life in the East India Com-panys service, and is noted for his great work onthe Malay language, but most for his numismaticknowledge. The external appearance of the BlitishMuseum, with its splendid columns and noblefront, formed of 800 stones from five to ninetons in weight each, is impressive, and indeed,except on rare days of London sunshine, oppres-sive in the extreme, a feeling winch is scarcely re-moved by the grand yet sombre aspect of the in-terior of the building. THE READING-ROOM. Facing the entrance is the Reading-room, a cir-cular building, 110 feet in diameter by 106 feethigh, the dome of which is the largest in theworld, with the single exception
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