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AMONG the notes on recent acquisitions by the British Museum in the British Museum Quarterly, 9, No. 3, particulars are given of sources from which came part of the sum required to make up the initial payment for the Eumorfopoulos collection of Chinese and Far Eastern art, and progress is reported in the allocation of the collection to Bloomsbury and South Kensington. A contribution of £5,000 was received from the National Art Collections Fund, £5,000 from Sir Percival David and £1,000 from the Universities' China Committee in London. The bequest to the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum of three quarters of the residue of the estate of the late J. R. Vallentin for the purchase of works of art for the two museums was also allotted to this use. It is stated that the collection is so large that it will be possible to place a certain number of pieces on loan in some of the leading provincial museums. When, however, the scheme for a Museum of Oriental Art comes into being, it is intended to recall these loans, and the whole collection will be brought together again to form an important part of what, it is hoped, will be the finest museum of oriental art in existence. Parts of the collection already have been, or are in course of being, described, but accounts of special classes of exhibits are to be prepared and published from time to time. Among other notes in this issue of an interesting publication which is not so widely known as it deserves, is an account of the fragments of the unknown gospel acquired last summer, to which Mr. H. L. Bell has recently directed attention in The Times, and descriptions with illustrations of an Egyptian wax figure which, if it be, as is thought, a model for making moulds for casting bronze figures, is indeed rare, and some unique objects of a varied nature from Roman London.
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British Museum Acquisitions. Nature 135, 425–426 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135425c0
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