_INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued):—GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND INTERNAL
ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR HENRY ELLIS._
_Internal Economy of the Museum at the time of the death of Joseph
Planta.—The Literary Life and Public Services of Sir Henry
Ellis.—The Candidature of Henry Fynes Clinton.—Progress of
Improvement in certain Departments.—Introduction of Sir Antonio
Panizzi into the Service of the Trustees.—The House of Commons’
Committee of 1835–36.—Panizzi and Henry Francis Cary.—Memoir of
Cary.—Panizzi’s Report on the proper Character of a National
Library for Britain, made in October, 1837.—His successive
labours for Internal Reform.—And his Helpers in the work.—The
Literary Life and Public Services of Thomas Watts.—Sir A.
Panizzi’s Special Report to the Trustees of 1845, and what grew
thereout.—Progress, during Sir H. Ellis’s term of office, of the
several Departments of Natural History and of Antiquities_ 527