The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ing the myste-rious inscriptions on Egyptian monuments. This stone bears thesame inscription in three different characters, one in hieroglyphics, onein a written character called enchorial, a
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ing the myste-rious inscriptions on Egyptian monuments. This stone bears thesame inscription in three different characters, one in hieroglyphics, onein a written character called enchorial, and the third in Greek. Thusby means of the Greek inscription the hieroglyphics were for the firsttime rendered intelligible. Besides the Egyptian Saloon, there is another collection of antiqui-ties from Egypt in an upper room called the Egyptian Room. Theseconsist of figures of various deities in silver, bronze, porcelain, wax^steatite, wood, &c; various articles of household furniture; a col-lection of objects for dress and the toilet; a great number of vases,lamps, and miscellaneous articles ; but above all in real interest, alarge collection of human mummies, male and female, and also mum-mies of numerous animals, as the cat, dog, dog-headed baboon, bull,ram, sheep, lamb, ibis, crocodile, snake, &c. LEARNED SOCIETIES, ETC.—BRITISH MUSEUM. 559 TBwi<j maVANOw r:i sssooh tfu. ±a xavs. ftOUTHGREAT RUSSELL GROUND PLAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The above is the plan, together with Mr. Fergussons proposedsuggestions for additional accommodation. Next the Egyptian Room is the Bronze Room, containing valuableGreek and Roman bronze figures, a collection of vases, terra cottas,&c. The celebrated Etruscan vases are in a separate room. The Medal Room contains a large collection of coins and medals,of which Sir Hans Sloanes and Sir Robert Cottons collections werethe basis. Great additions have been made through the munificenceof King George IV., and also by the bequests of the
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