Appointed Extra Assistant-Keeper, British Museum Public Press on his Appointment to the Keepership . Admiration for Petrarch's Sonnets, (1501) Opinion on newspaper attacks Applies to the Trustees for Extra-Assistants Promotion to the Keepership Code of Rules for Cataloguing-Opinion of Royal Com- missioners upon them PAGE 16 Account of the Grenville Collection. 35-37 Remark on difficulty of Cataloguing Mr., Grenville's Bequest of his Library Testimonies to his fitness for that appointment. Letter on leaving the Library . Proposal to separate the Natural History division from 63-66 62 66, 67 Testimonies in the House of Lords and Commons on his 80 INTRODUCTORY. HE greater part of the materials used in THE the composition of this brief biographical sketch of Sir ANTHONY PANIZZI have already appeared in my late work, entitled Memories of the British Museum. I have done little more than to put in one continuous narrative the particulars which are spread over the pages of the work referred to. I beg that it may be distinctly understood that I have no other authority for anything I have advanced in either this or my former work, than that I have taken the best means within my reach of gleaning the fullest and most reliable particulars of the eventful and successful career of the eminent man under whom it has been my privilege and happiness to serve almost all through my official life. I am fully persuaded that the sketch-and it must be considered nothing more I have attempted is both imperfect and fragmentary : it may prove, however, of service to some future biographer of the distinguished librarian, who still resides almost under the shadow of the great Institution he has done so much to popularize and improve. I beg to record my best acknowledgments to Mr. J. WINTER JONES, the present Principal Librarian, for permission to make free use of much that makes this notice of any value; and also for having kindly allowed me to adorn my humble tribute of affectionate respect with a copy from the most characteristic of the portraits that have been recently taken of Sir ANTHONY PANIZZI, which my friend, Mr. Stephen Thompson, has reproduced by the Woodbury process. With these few introductory remarks, I leave my work to the kindly judgment of my readers. MAITLAND PARK, HAMPSTEAD. APRIL 1, 1873. |