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Excerpt from A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury In addition to the Reading Room and Newspaper Room for general reference, special Students' Rooms are attached to several of the departments, viz., of Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. And Greek and Roman Antiquities. Students are admitted, under regulations, on application to the Director. Natural History collections were removed to a separate Museum, built to receive them, in Cromwell Road. South Kensington. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.