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10 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.J. P. Gandy Deering (1787-1850), an architect who hadtaken part in the Dilettanti Expedition to Ionia of 1811,presented sculptures that he had discovered at Ehamnusin Attica.^ In 1839, Colonel W. M. Leake, an eminenttraveller and topographer (1777-1860), presented severalGreek sculptures.^ A small collection of reliefs, and ofarchitectural fragments from Athens and elsewhere, waspurchased from H. W. Inwood, the author of a treatise onthe Erechtheion.In 1861, the fifth Earl of Aberdeen presented a collectionwhich had been formed in Greece in 1801 by George,fourth Earl of Aberdeen, a connoisseur, known to hiscontemporaries as "Athenian Aberdeen." ^ In 1864 acollection of sculptures was purchased which had beenformed by Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sixth ViscountStrangford (1783-1855), formerly Ambassador to thePorte, and which included the " Strangford Apollo." *Amongst purchases that have taken place from time totime we may also mention that of the Apollo ^ from thecollection of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in 1818. In1864 several Graeco-Eoman sculptures were purchased**from the Farnese Collection at Eome. The museum ofthe Due de Blacas, purchased in 1867, contained the headof Asclepios from Melos, and the relief discovered at thesame time.''For the numerous cases not here mentionedin which sculptures have been acquired by donotionor bequest, the reader is referred to the pages of thecatalogue.> Nos. 154, 460; cf. also No. 784. « Including Nos. 798, 816.» Including Nos. 032, 633, 644, 710, 802, 808, 811, 812.* No. 206. See also Nos. 302, 627, 651, 653, 666, 678, 722. * No. 209.« No. 401 Grxoo-Eoman Guide, I., Nos. 33, 45, 109, 132, 134 ; II.,;No. 96. ' Nos. 550, 809.