Chapter 1

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=1868.= The ABYSSINIAN ANTIQUITIES and MANUSCRIPTS.

Acquired by the Trustees during and after the Abyssinian War; partly by gift from the British Government, and partly by the researches of the Representative of the Trustees in the British Camp. Another and a very valuable portion of the Abyssinian Manuscripts came to the India Office, by the gift of =Lord Napier= of Magdala; and by the Secretary of State for India was given to the British Museum.

[See BOOK III, Chapter 4 .]

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=1868.= The SLADE ARCHÆOLOGICAL COLLECTION.

_Collected_ by =Felix Slade= (Died 1868). _Bequeathed_ by the Collector.

[See BOOK III, Chapter 4 .]

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=1869.= The HAYS COLLECTION of EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.

[See BOOK III,