...Sloane and the Harleian collection of manuscripts were acquired, and an Act of Parliament was passed " for providing one general repository for the better...Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto." The famous collection of MSS. made by Sir Robert Cotton, which was presented to the nation by Sir John...

...Sloane and the Hurleian collection oi manuscripts were acquired, and an Act of Parliament was passed " for providing one general repository for the better...Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto." The famous collection of MSS. made by Sir Robert Cotton, which was presented to the nation by Sir John...

...in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter twenty-two, and intituled "An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection...use of the said collections, and of the Cottonian Librar}% and of the additions thereto," wherein it was provided ihat a general repository should be...

...in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter twenty-two, and intituled " An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection...Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto," wherein it was provided that a general repository should be erected within the cities of London or...

...'5 G«o. 3. c. 77. Title. An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice. An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection...the Cottonian Library and of the additions thereto. An Act to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of any Duplicates...

...passed through the usual stages. It received the Koyal assent on June 7, 1753. The Act thus passed, ' for the purchase of the museum or collection of Sir...the Cottonian Library and of the additions thereto,' after providing for the purchases and incorporation of the collections, appointed a large body of trustees,...

...departments. The British Museum was founded, as you know, by an Act of Parliament in 1753 which was entitled "An Act for the purchase of the Museum or...the said collections and of the Cottonian library." I think it would be true to say the Library was the more important part of the original collections...

...•for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collections of Manuscripts ; and for providing one General Repository...the Cottonian Library and of the additions thereto.' The general repository thus established was placed in charge of a body of Trustees, consisting partly...