1853. The Stephens Cabinet of British Entomology.
Collected by James Francis Stephens (Died 22 December, 1852). Purchased by the Trustees.
Although this Collection contained about 88,000 specimens, it cost the Trustees only £400.
(LVI)
1854. The Des-Hayes Tertiary Fossils.
Collected, in France, by M. Des Hayes. Purchased by the Trustees.
(LVII)
1855–1860. The Halicarnassian and Cnidian Marbles.
Discovered and excavated by C. T. Newton (then Vice-Consul at Mitylene) and other Explorers (earlier and later). In part Presented by Lord Canning of Redcliffe (then Ambassador at Constantinople); and in part excavated and transported by the Trustees, with the aid of Parliamentary grants made in 1855 and subsequent years.
[See Book III, Chapter 3.]