Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 / With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

by Edward Edwards

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1816. The Beroldingen Fossils.

Acquired by purchase; and the only considerable acquisition, made in this department, between Brander’s gift of Fossils (gathered from the London Clay) in 1766, and the purchase of Hawkins’ fine Collection, in 1835.

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1816. The Elgin Marbles.

Collected, under firman of the Ottoman Porte, between the years 1801 and 1810—and chiefly in the years 1802 and 1803—by Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin (Died 14 October, 1841). Purchased by Parliament in 1816 for the sum of £35,000.

[See Book II, Chapter 2.]

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1816. The Montagu Zoological Collections.

Collected by Colonel George Montagu (Died 20 June, 1815), and arranged, as a Museum of British Zoology—and especially of Ornithology—at Knowle, in Devonshire. Purchased at a cost of £1100.