British Empire
THE, includes, under some form of government, the following: In Europe, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Malta, and Gibraltar; in Asia, ; in Asia , the Indian an Empire , Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, other Malay states, Hong Kong, Weihaiwei, North Borneo, Brunei , Sarawak, and Cyprus; in Africa, Cape Province, , Cape Province , Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South West Province, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Gambia, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Northern and Southern Nigeria, the former German ing room as a regular reader is by West Africa, East Africa, Uganda, ticket, procurable on application to the Zanzibar, Nyasaland, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritius, us, Seychelles , Ascension, and St. Helena; in America, Canada, Newfoundland, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Barbadoes, Trinidad and Tobago, British Guiana, British Honduras , Bermuda , the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia; in Australasia, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, Papua, and the Pacific Islands. The following table gives the area and the estimated population of the Empire for 1919: chief librarian. The library, which is now one of the largest and most valuable in the world, has been enriched by numerous bequests and gifts, among others the splendid library collected by George III. during his long reign. A lon long reign. A copy of every book, pamphlet, newspaper, piece of music, etc., published anywhere in British territory, must be conveyed free of charge to the British Museum. The museum contains eight principal departments, namely, the department of printed books, maps, charts, plans, etc.; the department of manu- \ BRITISH NORTH AMERICA scripts; the department of natural history; the department of Oriental antiquities; the department of Greek and Roman antiquities; the department of coins and medals; the department of British and medieval antiquities and ethnography; and the department of prints and drawings.