Third, or Central Compartment. 47. PETER I., EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, "from an original, drawn by Klingstad, in the possession of the Earl of Hertford, 1725; then Ambassador at Petersburgh." From the Old Cottonian Library. 48. PEDIGREE OF THE CORNARO FAMILY. 49. STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS I., KING OF POLAND. 50. CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN. } Presented by the Rev. A. Planta. 51. A HUNTING PIECE, by Jan Baptista Weenix. 52. LOUIS XIV. Presented by the Rev. A. Planta. Fourth Compartment. 53. LORD CHANCELLOR BACON. Presented by Dr. A. Gifford. 54. AN UNKNOWN HEAD, in ruff and beard; on panel; 59, 1608." 55. JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. 66 Etatis suæ 56. WILLIAM COURTEN, Esq., when young, inscribed "Gul. Courten Arm." 57. ANDREW MARVEL. Presented by Robert Nettleton, Esq., Governor of the Russia Company. 58. ADMIRAL LORD ANSON. A copy from the Picture at Wimpole. Presented, in 1814, by the Earl of Hardwicke. 59. ARCHBISHOP USHER. Presented by Dr. A. Gifford. 60. DR. THOMAS BURNET. "Ad vivum pinxit Romæ Ferdinand, 1675." Bequeathed by Matthew Wuters, Esq., 1788. 61. HENRY STEBBING, D.D. "Jos. Highmore, pinx. 1757." Presented by his grandson Henry Stebbing, Esq., 1813. 62. SIR HENRY SPELMAN. Presented by Dr. A. Gifford. 63. AN UNKNOWN HEAD, a scull in the right hand; on panel. "Etatis suæ 24. A°. 1569." 64. SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE. 65. WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURGHLEY. Dr. A. Gifford. On panel. Presented by 66. MATTHEW PRIOR, by Hudson, from an original of Richardson. Presented by the Earl of Besborough, 1775. 67. PORTRAIT OF J. RAY, M.A., the Naturalist, by Mrs. Beale. Bequeathed by Sir William Watson. 68. WILLIAM CAMDEN. On panel. 66 Etatis LVIII. MDCIX." 69. JOHN RAY, M.A., the Naturalist. This Portrait belonged to Sir Hans Sloane. 70. JOHN SPEED, the historian. On panel. 66 66 71. ARCHBISHOP CRANMER, Anno etatis 57, Julij 20," by Gerlach Flicke.* Gerlacus fliccius Germanus faciebat." On panel. Presented, in 1776, by John Michell, Esq., M.P., of Bayfield Hall, Norfolk. * Gerlach or Gerbertus Fliccius. See Walpole Anecd. of Paint., by Dallaway, 8vo., Vol. I., 105, note. 72. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. Presented by M. Maty, M.D. 73. GEORGE BUCHANAN. Inscribed "Etatis 76, Año. 1581." A small portrait on panel. Fifth Compartment. 74. VOLTAIRE. Presented by M. Maty, M.D., 1760. 75. VESALIUS, on panel, by Sir Antonio More. This Portrait belonged to Sir Hans Sloane. 76. AN UNKNOWN PORTRAIT. Presented by Dr. A. Gifford. 77. A PORTRAIT (called CHARLES I., when Prince). Presented, in 1759, by Mrs. Elizabeth Gambarini. 78. ANNA MARIA SCHURMAN, by John Lievens. 79. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. 80. POPE CLEMENT X. 81. SIR ANTONIO MORE. On panel. Presented by Dr. A. Gifford. 82. COSMO DE' MEDICI and his SECRETARY BARTOL. CONCINI. A copy from Titian. Brought from the Old Cottonian Library. 83. MARTIN LUTHER, a small whole length on panel. "D. Martinus Luter, 1546, 18 Febr. Ætatis 63. iaer.” 84. GEORGE, TENTH AND LAST EARL MARISCHAL OF SCOTLAND. On copper; painted at Rome, 1752, by Placido Costanzi. Presented by Lord Glenbervie. 85. JEAN ROUSSEAU, employed in the Paintings of Montague House. Presented by Mrs. Woolfryes, 1757. 86. CAPT. WILLIAM DAMPIER, by Murray. From the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane. 87. CARDINAL SFORZA PALLAVICINI, 1663. Presented by Smart Lethieullier, Esq. 88. ULYSSES ALDROVANDI, by Giorgione. From the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane. 89. AN UNKNOWN PORTRAIT of a Gentleman in a ruff and long beard: inscribed "Etatis suæ 66, An. Dom. 1590." On panel. 90. ISABELLA, Infanta of Spain. 91. ST. EVREMOND. Presented by M. Maty, M.D. 92. SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS. 93. PRINCESS MARY, afterwards Queen. "Maria Princeps. Año. Dom. 1531." "I. B." initials of the Painter. Presented by Sir Thomas Mantel. 94. FRANK OF BORSALIA, Earl of Ostervant, who died in 1470. 95. LANDSCAPE by Wilson. 96. ALEXANDER POPE. Presented by Francis Annesley, Esq. 97. ALGERNON SIDNEY. 98. JOHN GUTTENBERG, Printer. Presented by Paul Vaillant, Esq. 99. HENRY FREDERICK, PRINCE OF ORANGE. Presented, in 1782, by Lord Fred. Campbell. 100. JOHN LOCKE. Presented by Matthew Maty, M.D. 101. GOVERNOR HERBERT, by Devis. Presented by Admiral Page. 102. JAMES PARSONS, M.D. "Etat. 60 anno quo Benj. Wilson pinxit, 1762." Bequeathed by Dr. Knight, 1772. 103. JOHN WALLIS, D.D., the Mathematician. 104. MARY DAVIS, an inhabitant of Great Saughall in Cheshire, taken 1668, "ætatis 74." . At the age of 28 an excrescence grew upon her head, like a wen, which continued 30 years, and then grew into two horns, one of which the profile represents. 105. SIR JOHN DODERIDGE. Presented by Dr A. Gifford. 106. UNKNOWN PORTRAIT, t. Cha. II. 107. PHILIP DORMER, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, by Ramsay, 1765. Presented by Sir Thomas Robinson, Bart. in 1777. 108. RICHARD BAXTER. Presented by Dr. A. Gifford, 1760. 110. LODOWICK MUGGLETON, “Aged 66, 1674." 111. THOMAS BRITTON, the Musical small-coal-manı, "Etat. 61, 1703." By Woolaston. 112. MR. GEORGE VERTUE, the Engraver, "Et. L. 1733.” by his widow, 1775. 113. ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF SALISBURY. by Dr. A. Gifford. Presented On panel. Fresented GEORGE WILLIAM REID. ***The following Portraits, formerly Nos. 61, 84, 85, 87, 107, and 108, viz. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1400, a small whole length on panel; a Limning cf Frederick III. of Saxony, by Lucas Cranach; the Portraits of Molière, Corneille, and an unknown head by Dobson, all on panel: with the Portrait of a Pope or Cardinal; on account of their diminutive size, have been transferred to the Print Room; and the Portraits, formerly Nos. 30, 34, and 105, viz. of Dr. Gowin Knight, Dr. Matthew Maty, and Mr. Joseph Planta, Principal Librarians of the British Museum, have been transferred to the Trustees' Board Room. There are also in the Board Room a portrait of Sir Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian of the British Museum, by Mrs. Carpenter, presented by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S.; a portrait of Sir Anthony Panizzi, Principal Librarian of the British Museum, by G. F. Watts, R. A., presented by the Museum establishment on the occasion of Sir Anthony's retirement; and a painting, by A. Archer, showing the temporary arrangement of the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum in 1819, with portraits of the President of the Royal Academy, officers of the British Museum, &c., presented by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. NORTH GALLERY. SITUATED in the upper story of the Building, the North Gallery is entered either from the lobby at the north end of the Gallery of Antiquities, or from the lobby at the corresponding end of the Bird Gallery. The rooms into which the North Gallery is divided are numbered I. to VI., and the numbers will be found over the doorways. The floor of the Gallery is occupied by Table Cases, which, in the Rooms I. to IV., contain the collection of Minerals; and, in Rooms V. and VI., are devoted to the fossil remains of Invertebrate Animals. The Wall Cases throughout the Gallery are occupied by the DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. The Fossil remains are arranged partly in Zoological order and partly in Geological sequence; thus, the species of the natural families, such, for example, as the Ammonitida (shells allied to the Pearly Nautilus), and Terebratulida (Lamp-shells), are grouped together; but each family commences with the most recent examples of the group and terminates with those of the older rocks. The series of remains of Vertebrata, or animals with a back-bone, commences with the Fishes in Room II., is continued, on the walls facing the windows, to the last Room (No. VI.), and there returns in the Wall Cases near the windows, to terminate in Room II. Some of the smaller objects belonging to this series will be found in the Table Cases under the windows. In the Lobby, between the Bird Gallery and the Gallery of Minerals and Fossils, is a restored model of the shell of an extinct Fossil Tortoise, of gigantic size, from the Siwalik Hills, in India. Portions of the shell and of other parts of the skeleton of several different individuals of this species of Tortoise (Colossochelys atlas), are deposited in Case 2 of Room III., and it is of casts from some of these portions that the restored model is, in a great measure, composed. ROOM I. FOSSIL PLANTS.-Divisions A. & B. of Case 1 contain Vegetable impressions called Alga, from their resemblance to Sea-weeds. They are found in rocks of all ages, and are almost the only Fossils met with in the very oldest strata. Division C. of the same case contains the Fossil Ferns, of the genus Sphenopteris, obtained from the Shale beds overlaying the coals. Case 2. Divisions A. to F. contain Ferns of the Coal-measures belonging to the genera Neuropteris, Cyclopteris, Pecopteris, and Alethopteris; together with certain species which are peculiar to the Coalshales of India and Australia (Glossopteris). In Case 3, are the Ferns peculiar to the Permian, Trias, and Lias formations, these are in division A.; where will also be found sections of silicified stems of Tree-ferns from Bohemia. In divisions B. and C. are arranged the Ferns of the Oolitic Shales of Scarborough, in Yorkshire; and, in division D. are those of the Green-sand and Wealden formations. Divisions E. and F. contain the Coal-plants called Calamites: they have jointed stems, and leaves in whorls, resembling those of the recent "Mare's-tail" (Equisetum). The Asterophyllites are also placed here, being now regarded as the fruit and foliage of the Calamites. Case 4 contains the stems of Coal-plants, called Lepidodendron, from their scaly bark, allied to the recent Club-mosses (Lycopodiacea); but they attained the size of forest-trees. Examples of the foliage and fruit of these plants, contained in nodules of clay-ironstone, are placed in the next Case (5, A. B.). Case 5. In this case are arranged portions of the trunks of Fossiltrees, with regular furrows and impressions, called Sigillaria, also belonging to the Lycopodiacea. They are found in great numbers in most coal-fields, frequently retaining the erect position in which they grew. The Fossils named Stigmaria, in this Case, and on the top of Case 4, are the roots of the Sigillaria. They occur in the fire-clay, beneath seams of coal. The example over the Gallery door originally measured 26 feet in length. Over Case 5 are placed examples of the opalized trunks of a species of Banksia from Tasmania. Case 6 contains, 1. Fossil Plants of the Kentish-Rag and Wealden strata, including a plant related to the Dragon-tree of Teneriffe, Dracana Benstedi, from the Iguanodon Quarry at Maidstone. 2. Silicified stems of Palms from the West Indies. 3. Palm-leaves and palmlike Fruits (Nipadites), from Sheppey, the wood of which was bored by a species of ship-worm (Teredina) now extinct. 4. Leaves of Cycadean plants from Scarborough, &c. 5. Fossil Fir-cones and Pine-wood, the former from the cliffs on the coast of Norfolk, belonging to the Spruce Fir, a species which had become extinct in Britain, and has been reintroduced in modern times. Over Case 6 are placed the silicified stems of Mantellia, plants |