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=1815.= The VON MOLL LIBRARY and MUSEUM.

_Collected_ by the =Baron Von Moll= (Died ...). _Purchased_ (at Munich) for the sum of £4768 (including the contingent expenses), out of the Fund bequeathed by =Major Edwards=.

The Library of BARON VON MOLL comprised nearly 20,000 volumes, and a considerable Collection of Portraits and other Prints. His Museum consisted of an extensive Herbarium and a Collection of Minerals. The purchase was completed in 1816.

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=1816.= The BEROLDINGEN FOSSILS.

Acquired by _purchase_; and the only considerable acquisition, made in this department, between BRANDER’S gift of Fossils (gathered from the London Clay) in 1766, and the purchase of HAWKINS’ fine Collection, in 1835.

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=1816.= The ELGIN MARBLES.

_Collected_, under firman of the Ottoman Porte, between the years 1801 and 1810—and chiefly in the years 1802 and 1803—by =Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin= (Died 14 October, 1841). _Purchased_ by Parliament in 1816 for the sum of £35,000.

[See BOOK II,