British Museum, a national institution in London for the collection of MSS., books, prints and drawings, antiquities, and objects of natural history, ethnology, &c.; founded as far back as 1700, though not opened, in Montagu House as it happened, for the public benefit till 1759.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
British Lion * Britomart