Note 7 — Chapter III · A GROUP OF BOOK-LOVERS AND PUBLIC BENEFACTORS.
Reading edition
It was also from the Edwards fund that the whole costs of the Oriental MSS. of Halhed, and of the Minerals of Hatchett, together with those of several other early and important acquisitions, were defrayed. That fund, in truth, was the mainstay of the Museum during the years of parliamentary parsimony.