Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX D. List of MSS. and Miscellaneous Objects of interest exhibited in the Library. GLASS CASE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY. 1. A Telugu MS. on palm-leaves, brought from India by Sir Thos. Strange, formerly Chief Justice of Madras, together with a style employed for writings of this kind, and a pocket-knife. Given by Sir T. Strange’s daughter, Mrs. Edmund Foulkes, in 1864. 2. Drawings and engravings of Buddhist idols; brought from a Joss- house ina Llama monastery in Pekin, in 1862, and given to the Library by Lieut-Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 6oth Rifles. 3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors. This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which it contains may be mentioned the following in particular: ? Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8,1832, with the Duchess of Kent; Dec. 12, 1860. The Prince Consort, June 15, 1841; June 4, 1856; Jan. 9, 1857 (in company with his three eldest children); Dec. 12, 1860. Prince of Wales, Jan. 9, 1857; March 27, 1860; June 18, 1863. Princess of Wales, June 18,1863. Duke of Wellington, Oct. 20, 1835 (in company with Q.. Adelaide); Sept. 14, 1839; June 15, 1841; Aug. 2O, 1844. Gul. Gesenius, Aug. 5, 1820. Sir John Franklin, 1829. Sir D. Wilkie, June 14, 1834. Bishop Selwyn, June 30, 1837. Chevalier Bunsen, Jan. 24, 1839; Aug. 20, 1844. Princes of Ashantee, June Id, 1840. Henry Hallam, Oct. 16,1840. Bishop of Malabar, Mar Athanasius Abdelmesih, June I], 1841. M. Berryer, Nov. 23, 1843. W. H. Prescott, June 24, 1850. Alfred Tennyson, June 21, 1855. A Siamese Prince, June 29, 1858. Lord Brougham, June 20, 1860. Lord Palmerston, July 2, 1862. Queen Emma of Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1865. Chinese Ambassadors, June 7,1866. Until the year 1861 it was also …
