Note 39 — INTRODUCTION.

Amongst purchases that have taken place from time to time we may also mention that of the Apollo39 from the collection of the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier in 1818. In 1864 several Græco-Roman sculptures40 were purchased from the Farnese Collection at Rome. The museum of the Duc de Blacas, purchased in 1867, contained the head of Asclepios from Melos, and the relief discovered at the same time.41 For the numerous cases not here mentioned in which sculptures have been acquired by donation or bequest, the reader is referred to the pages of the catalogue.