_OTHER BENEFACTORS OF RECENT DAYS._
_Recent Contributors to the Natural History Collections.—The Duke
of Blacas and his Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquities.—Hugh
Cuming and his Travels and Collections in South America.—John
Rutter Chorley, and his Collection of Spanish Plays and Spanish
Poetry.—George Witt and his Collections illustrative of the
History of Obscure Superstitions.—The Ethnographical Museum of
Henry Christy, and its History.—Colonial Archæologists and
British Consuls: The History of the Woodhouse Collection, and of
its transmittal to the British Museum.—Lord Napier and the
Acquisition of the Abyssinian MSS.—The Art Collections and
Bequests of Felix Slade.—The Travels and the Japanese Library of
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