Chapter VII: Reconstructors and Projectors (3)

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ RECAPITULATION. │ ├───────────────────────────────┬───────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┤ │ │Present│Proposed │ Proposed │Proposed│ │ │Space. │Addition.│Deduction.│ Total. │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ PRINTED BOOKS. │ │ │ │ │ │Basement │ 33,998│ 14,667│ │ 48,665│ │Ground floor │ 83,748│ │ 2,070│ 81,678│ │Upper floor │ │ 5,206│ │ 5,206│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │117,746│ 19,873│ 2,070│ 135,549│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ MANUSCRIPTS. │ │ │ │ │ │Basement │ 210│ 1,360│ │ 1,570│ │Ground floor │ 12,968│ 2,070│ │ 15,038│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │ 13,178│ 3,430│ │ 16,608│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ ANTIQUITIES. │ │ │ │ │ │Basement │ 33,868│ 16,036│ 6,767│ 43,137│ │Ground floor │ 39,334│ 13,775│ │ 53,109│ │Upper floor 21,532│ │ │ │ │ │ Less Coins and Medals 2,950│ │ │ │ │ │ ——————│ 18,582│ 44,648│ │ 63,230│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │ 91,784│ 74,459│ 6,767│ 159,476│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ COINS AND MEDALS. │ │ │ │ │ │Upper floor │ 2,950│ │ │ │ │New building │ │ 4,950│ │ │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │ 2,950│ 4,950│ │ 7,900│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. │ │ │ │ │ │Upper floor │ 2,600│ 3,204│ 2,600│ │ │New building │ │ 4,950│ │ │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │ 2,600│ 8,154│ 2,600│ 8,154│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ COMMITTEE ROOM, OFFICES, │ │ │ │ │ │ STORES, &C. │ │ │ │ │ │Basement │ 1,290│ │ 1,290│ │ │Ground floor │ 3,565│ │ 3,565│ │ │Upper floor │ 1,869│ │ 1,869│ │ │New Building (Basement) │ │ 5,400│ │ │ │New Building (Ground) │ │ 4,950│ │ │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │ 6,724│ 10,350│ 6,724│ 10,350│ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ BINDERS. │ │ │ │ │ │Basement │ 1,360│ │ 1,360│ │ │Detached building │ 3,179│ │ 3,179│ │ │New building │ │ 7,760│ │ │ ├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤ │ │ 4,539│ 7,760│ 4,539│ 7,760│ └───────────────────────────────┴───────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┘

Your Committee, proceeds the Report, do not think it necessary to give
the particulars of the accommodation which the unappropriated portions
of the basement floor would afford for the preservation of moulds, as
well as for the formatore, for making and preserving casts of statues
and other large objects, as well as of gems and seals, and also for
providing such decent and suitable conveniences as the health and
comfort of the thousands who visit the Museum absolutely require.

[Sidenote: FUTURE USE OF BASEMENT.]

It is, perhaps, unnecessary to do more than simply to remind the
Trustees that the want of space at the Museum has been felt and has
been urged on the Government for several years past, and that during
the last four or five years the additions to the Collections of
Antiquities have been so rapid and so numerous, as to render it
impossible to do more than provide for them temporary shelter at a
considerable expense, and to the great disfigurement of the noble
façade which entitles the Museum to claim rank among the most
classical buildings of modern times. [Sidenote: URGENCY OF BUILDING AT
ONCE.] Should the above proposals of your Committee meet with the
approbation of the Trustees and the sanction of the Government, they
ought to be carried into effect without delay. The Government would,
doubtless, lose no time in providing a proper building for the
reception of such collections as are to be removed from the Museum;
until this removal has taken place, no redistribution of the vacated
space can be undertaken; but the new structures proposed to be erected
on ground now unoccupied ought to be proceeded with at once, that they
might be rendered available as speedily as possible.

[Sidenote: WHAT TO BE FIRST PUT IN HAND.]

Your Committee are of opinion that the new building facing Montague
Street, the building for the bookbinder, the building intended to be
erected on the ground now vacant between the Elgin Room and the Print
Room, and the construction of the new principal staircases, should be
commenced immediately. The building intended to be erected on the
vacant ground on the west of the Trustees’ Room (No. 11 on the plan),
must, necessarily, be postponed for awhile. The alterations which
might and ought to be rapidly completed, are those which will be
required on the east side of the King’s Library (No. 55 and 57), to
transfer the gallery to the Department of MSS. from that of Printed
Books.

[Sidenote: COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES TO BE APPOINTED.]

The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury state that ‘they
will be prepared to enter upon the details of these questions in
communication with the Trustees, and even, if it should be desired, to
offer suggestions upon them.’ Your Committee are of opinion that the
proffered assistance should be at once accepted; and that in order to
derive all possible advantage from that assistance a small Committee
of Trustees should be appointed to carry on the necessary
communications with the Treasury, either verbally or otherwise, and to
consider with their Lordships all suggestions that might be offered
respecting the points touched upon in this Report, and their details.
This Committee would be similar to that which the Trustees requested
the Treasury to appoint, by letter of the twentieth of June, 1829, and
which was afterwards appointed by the Trustees themselves, with the
approbation of their Lordships, to direct and superintend, not only
the works then in progress, but those to be afterwards undertaken.

On the tenth of February, 1862—after the communication of this Report to each of the Trustees individually—the recommendations of the Sub-Committee were unanimously approved, at a Special General Meeting of the Trustees, at which twenty-four members of the Board were present. [Sidenote: _Correspondence Relating to the British Museum_, No. 97 of Session 1862.] After the adoption of the plans thus accepted, another Sub-Committee of Trustees was appointed to confer with the Treasury in order to their realisation.

Before Parliament, this plan of severance and of re-arrangement—after some modifications of detail which are too unimportant for remark—was supported, in 1862, with the whole influence of the Government. But it failed to win any adequate amount either of parliamentary or of public favour. Some men doubted if the estimated saving, as between building at Bloomsbury and building at Kensington, would or could be realized. Others denied that the evils or inconveniences attendant upon severance would be compensated by any adequate gain on other points. [Sidenote: THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE OF 1862.] The popularity of the Natural History Collections; the facilities of access to Great Russell Street; the weighty—though far from unanimous—expressions of opinion from eminent men of science in favour of continuance and enlargement, rather than of severance and removal; all these and other objections were raised, and were more or less dwelt upon, both in the House of Commons and in scientific circles out of doors, scarcely less entitled to discuss a national question of this kind. The Commons eventually decided against the project by their vote of the 19th May, 1862.

Substantially,—and in spite of small subsequent additions from time to time to the buildings at Bloomsbury—the question of 1862 is still the question of 1870. As I have said, it has been my object to state that question rather than to discuss it.

Should it seem, after full examination, that good government may be better maintained, and adequate space for growth be efficiently provided, by enlarging the existing Museum, would it be worthy of Britain to allow the additional expenditure of a few scores of thousands of pounds—an expenditure which would be spread over the taxation of many years—to preponderate in the final vote of Parliament over larger and more enduring considerations?

In the session of 1866 Mr. Spencer WALPOLE spoke thus: ‘You must either determine to separate the Collections now in the Museum, or buy more land in Bloomsbury.... I have always been for keeping them together. I am, however, perfectly willing to take either course, provided you do not heap those stores one on another—as at present,’ (July, 1866)—‘in such a manner as to render them really not so available as they ought to be to those who wish to make them objects of study.’ Few men are so well entitled to speak, authoritatively, on the question—because few have given such an amount of time and labour to its consideration.

By every available and legitimate expression of opinion the Trustees have acted in the spirit of this remark, made almost four years since, by one of the most eminent of their number. The words are, unfortunately, as apposite in March, 1870, as they were in July, 1866.

THE END.

GENERAL INDEX.

Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 66, 70

Abercorn, Earl of. _See_ Hamilton

Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 548

Abyssinia, MSS., brought from, 707

Accessibility, Public, of the British Museum, Successive changes in the
Regulations and Statistics of the, 323, 336, 338, 339, 341, 368,
520, 599

Adair, Sir Robert, 373

Æginæ, Vases and other Antiquities brought from, 386 _seqq._

Africa, Pre-historic and Ethnographical Collections from, 699 _seqq._

Agarde, Arthur, and Sir Robert Cotton, 85, 86

Albemarle, Duchess of. _See_ Monk

Albums, Series of German, 457

Alexandria, Sarcophagus from, 365 _seqq._

Allan-Greg Cabinet of Minerals, 606

Almanzi, Joseph, Hebrew Library of, 42

Amadei, Victor, Marbles from the Collection of, 372

Amba-Bichoi, Biblical MSS. from the Monastery of, 615 _seqq._

America, Pre-historic and Ethnographical Collections from, 699 _seqq._

Anadhouly, Exploration by Sir Charles Fellows of, 644

_Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, Description of the_, 372
_seqq._

Anderson, Edmund (of Eyworth and Stratton), 132

Andréossi, Anthony Francis, Count, Researches in the Monasteries of
Nitria of, 610

Angouleme, Duke of, 539

Anne, Queen of England, 207 _seqq._

Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of James I, 153, 156, 166

Ansse de Villoisin, John Baptist, G. d’, 455

Antiphellus, Researches of Sir Charles Fellows at, 644

_Antiquités Étrusques, &c._, 352 _seqq._

Apotheosis of Homer, 401

Arcadia, Archæological Explorations in, 397 _seqq._

Argos, Vases and other Antiquities from, 386

Artas of Sidon, Ancient glasswork of, 709 _seqq._

Artemisia, Ancient Sculptures from the Mausoleum built by, 664 _seqq._

Arundel, Earl of. _See_ Fitzalan

Arundel, Earl of. _See_ Howard

Arundelian Library, 198 _seqq._

Arundelian Marbles, 197 _seqq._

Ashburnham House, Fire at, 140

Askew, Anthony, 472

Assemani, Joseph Simon, and Stephen Evode, obtain, for the Vatican,
Syriac MSS. from the Monastery of the Syrians, 617

Assyrian Antiquities, First beginning of the Collection of, 401;
Account of the Discoveries by Mr. Layard and his successors of, 629
_seqq._

Athanasius, Saint, Syriac Version of the Festal Letters of, 623

Athens, Researches of Lord Elgin at, their History and Results, 381
_seqq._

Aublet, John Baptist Christopher Fusée d’, Botanical Collection of, 509

B.

Baber, Rev. Henry Hervey, M.A., Services of, in the Department of
Printed Books, 532, _seqq._, 542;
Death of, 553

Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Alban’s, is assisted by Sir R. Cotton in
his endeavour to frame an acceptable measure for a union with
Scotland, 57

Bankes, George, 441

Banks-Hodgkenson, J., 488

Banks, Sir Joseph, Bart., P.R.S., Notices of the Life, Travels,
Labours, and Benefactions of, 335, 480–489, 497–501, 509;
His Correspondence with Sir William Hamilton on Volcanic Eruptions,
354 _seqq._

Banks, Mrs. S. S., Bequest of, 27

Barbadoes, Notices of the Early History of the Island of, and of the
attempts at plantation there made by William Courten and others, 251
_seqq._, 261 _seqq._;
Botanizing Expedition of Sir Hans Sloane at, 278

Barberini (or Portland) Vase, History of the, 461

Barbier, Anthony Alexander, 455

Barbier, Eugene Auguste, 452

Barlow, Hugh, 349

Barnard, Sir Frederick Augusta, Labours of, as Royal Librarian, 468,
472;
Johnson’s Letter to him on the Collection of Books, _ib._

Barrington, Shute, Bishop of Durham, 420

Barth Cabinet of Gems, 691

Battely, William, 240

Bean, Rev. James, M.A., 544

Beattie, James, LL.D., Conversation with King George III of, 475

Beauclerc, Topham, 425

Beaumont, Sir George, Bart., Bequest of a Gallery of Pictures to the
British Museum by, 30, 460

Bentinck Papers, 457

Bentley, Richard, D.D., Royal Librarianship of, 140, 169

Berkeley, Mary, 345

Berlin Museum, 579

Bernard, Sir John, 299

Beroldingen Fossils, 26

Bethel, Slingsby, 299

Biblical MSS. of the Nitrian Monasteries, 610 _seqq._

Biliotti and Salzmann, Messrs., Archæological Researches of, in the
Island of Rhodes, 669

Birch, Thos., D.D., Services of, as an early Trustee, 415 _seqq._;
his bequests, 415

Blacas, P. L. J. Casimir de, Duke of Blacas, Museum of, 689 _seqq._

Blagrove, Major, 408

Blois, Earls of, Archives, now at Pomard, of the, 536 _seqq._

Bodley, Sir Thomas, and Sir R. Cotton, 332

Bolingbroke, Henry, Viscount. _See_ St. John

Bolton, Edmund, 84

Bonaparte, Lucien, Prince of Canino, Acquisition of part of the
Collection of Vases formed by, 35

Bond, Edward Augustus, 600

Bonpland, M., 455

Borell, H. P., Collection of Greek and Roman Coins made by, 34

Borough, Sir John, 195

Bosset, Colonel de, Collection of Greek Coins made by, 25, 400

Botanical Collections, 267, 269, 277 _seqq._, 283, 295, 492 _seqq._,
507

Botanical Collections in France, 260 _seqq._, 500

Botanical Collections in Germany and Italy, 267

Botanical Studies in England, Notice of the rise and progress of, 259
_seqq._

Botanic Gardens at Chelsea, 275, 293, 297

Botanic Garden at Paris, 500

Botta, P. E., Assyrian Researches of, 616;
his first and brilliant discoveries at Khorsabad, 629;
his genial and liberal co-operation with Layard, 631, _foot-note_

Boudaen, Peter, 255

Bourchier, Sir William, 539

Bowood in Wiltshire, Lord Shelburne’s improvements at, 428

Bowring, J., Entomological Collection of, 51

Boyle, Robert, 275

Branchidæ, Ancient Sculpture brought by C. T. Newton from, 664

Brander, Gustavus, Gift of the ‘Solander Fossils,’ by, 21, 333

Briasson’s Correspondence with Sir H. Sloane respecting a French
version of the _Natural History of Jamaica_, 289

Bridges’ Zoological Collections made in South America, 581

Bridgewater, Francis Henry, Earl of. _See_ Egerton

Brienne, Henry Lewis de Lomenie de, Count. _See_ Lomenie

Brindley, James, 447

British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography, Formation of the new
Department of, 688

British Museum, Chronological Epitome of the principal incidents in the
formation, enlargement, and growth of the successive Collections
which constitute the, 6–47

Brocas, Elizabeth, 52

Brocas, William, 52

Bröndsted, Peter Olave, 399

Brougham, Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, 547

Brown, Robert, F.R.S., Keeper of Botany, Services of, 507, 508

Browne, William George, Researches in the Nitrian Monasteries of, 610

Bruce, Agnes, of Conington in Huntingdonshire, 49

Bruce, Thomas, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Archæological Explorations
at Athens and in various other parts of Greece, 381–396;
Notices of his Life and Public Career, _ib._, 400, 411;
the controversy as to the archæological and artistical value of the
Elgin Marbles, 411 _seqq._;
other national results of Lord Elgin’s Embassy and Public Spirit, 439

Bruchmann’s Fossils, 39

Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, Joseph Anthony, 500

Bryant, Jacob, 479

Bryaxis, Ancient Sculptures by, 665

Buchan, Mr., a Naturalist engaged in the Voyage of Banks and Cook, 493

Buckingham House and its History, 318

Buckland, William, D.D., 449

Budrum (the ancient Halicarnassus), Explorations of C. T. Newton and
other Archæologists at, 663 _seqq._

Burckhardt, John Lewis, Travels and Researches in Africa of, 404

Burlamachi, Philip, 250

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 133, 211

Burney, Charles, D.D., Notices of the Life, Labours, and Literary
Character of, with Notices of his Manuscript and Printed
Collections, 435–438; 440 _seqq._

Burney, Frances (afterwards Mme. d’Arblay), 475, 503

Burnouf, M., Researches on Assyrian Palæography of, 641

Bute, Earl of. _See_ Stuart

Byres, James, 372

Byron, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Autograph MSS. of, 458;
Notice of the recent slander on the fame of, _ib._

C.

Cadogan, Charles Sloane, 297

Cadogan, Lord, 300, 304

Cadyanda, Casts of Rock-Tombs at, 660

Cæsar Papers, 426

Calah (of _Genesis_) Conjectural identification of, 629

Calvert, Sir William, 299

Camden, William, Friendship of Sir Robert Cotton, and, 52, 53;
their joint labours on the _Britannia_, 54;
their archæological tour in the north of England, _ib._;
other joint labours and friendly intercourse, 87, 98

_Campi Phlegræi_, 350

Canino, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of, and his Collection of Greek Vases,
35

Canning, Stratford, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, encourages liberally
the researches of Layard, 632;
procures from Halicarnassus the primary specimens of the sculptures
of the Mausoleum and presents them to the Nation, 663

Canova, Anthony, Opinion on the Elgin Marbles of, 455

Caraffa, Carlo, MSS. of, 457

Carew, George, 261 _seqq._

Carleton, Dudley, Lord Dorchester, 65, 176

Carlisle, James, Earl of. _See_ Hay.

_Carmina Quadragesimalia_ of 1748, Oxford, 418

Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset, Political connection between Sir Robert
Cotton and, 66 _seqq._;
Somerset’s intercourse with the Court of Spain, 69;
His alleged complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 31
_seqq._

Carr, Frances, Countess of Somerset, 66 _seqq._

Carteret, Lady Sophia, 424

Carthage, Explorations on the site of ancient, and their results, 666
_seqq._

Cary, Henry Francis, Notice of the Literary Life and Museum Service of,
532;
circumstances attendant on his Candidature for the Keepership of
Printed Books in 1837, 543 _seqq._

Casaubon, Isaac, 167

Casier, Margaret, 249

Casley, David, Services of, as Deputy Royal Librarian, 140, 144

Castile, Earls of, 56

Catharine, Empress of Russia, 407

_Catalogue of the Anglo-Gallic Coins_, 522

_Catalogue of the Printed Books_, 523, 533, 566 _seqq._

Cautley, Major, Fossils collected in the Himalayas, by, 39

Cavendish, Mary, Duchess of Portland, 462

Caxton, William, Series of the productions of the press of, 476–478,
681–683

Cecil, William, Lord Burghley, 427

Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 88, 162

Chaloner, Sir Thomas, 158, 159

Chamberlain, John, 176

Charles I, King of England, 68, 91, 94, 98, 101, 124, 331

Charles II, King of England, 260

Charles X, King of France, 691

Charlett, Arthur, 236, 283

Chelsea, Botanic Garden at, 275, 293, 297

Chelsea, Manor House of, and its History, 294 _seqq._

Children, John George, 532

Chimæra-Tomb from Lycia, 658

Chinese Books, Hull’s Collection of, 461

Chinese Antiquities and Curiosities, 700

Choiseul Gouffier, M. G. A. L. de, Count, Archæological Researches in
Greece of, 384

Chorley, J. Rutter, Collection of Spanish Dramatic Poetry formed and
bequeathed by, 695 _seqq._

Christy, Henry, Notices of the Life, Beneficence, and Archæological
explorations of, 697 _seqq._;
his Collections and their bequest to the Public, 699 _seqq._, 701

Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough, 209 _seqq._

Clarke, Edward Daniel, LL.D., and the Sarcophagus from Alexandria, 366;
MS. of the Greek Orators obtained by him at Constantinople, 439

Clayton’s Herbarium, 509

Cnidus, Ancient Sculpture brought by C. T. Newton from, 664 _seqq._

Cockerell, Charles Robert, Researches in Phigaleia of, 397

_Codex Alexandrinus_, 167, 170

Coinage of the Realm, Collections by Sir Joseph Banks, on the, 508

Coins, Medals, and Gems, Collection of, 139, 201, 271, 295, 303, 412,
417, 421, 443, 705

Coke, Sir Edward, 80, 82, 149

Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, 372

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 545

Combe, Taylor, 392, 399

Conington, in Huntingdonshire, 49

Constable, Alice, 132

Constantinople, Early Researches for Greek Marbles and MSS. at, 191
_seqq._

Conway, Sir Edward, 184

Conyers, John, 259

Cook, Captain James, 334

Corinth, Vases and other Antiquities brought from, 386 _seqq._

Cotton, Sir John, 135, 139

Cotton, Sir John, Great-grandson of the Founder, Donor of the Cotton
Library and Antiquities, 134, 306

Cotton, John, Grandson of the Founder, 133

Cotton, Robert (of Gedding, Cambridgeshire), 139

Cotton, Sir Robert (of Hatley St. George, in Cambridgeshire), 139

Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, Descent and Pedigree of, 50
1570–1585. His education and early friendships, 52
1587–98. Commencement and growth of his library and museum, 53
1599. His archæological tour in the North of England with Camden, and
his share in the composition of the _Britannia_, 54;
is employed by the Queen to prepare a tractate on the precedency of
England over Spain, 55;
analysis of that treatise, _ib._
1603. Writes a _Discourse on King James’ descent from the Saxon
Kings_, 56;
is knighted, _ib._;
and returned to Parliament for Huntingdonshire, but takes little
part in its debates, 57;
accepts a prominent share in the labour of Committees, _ib._;
and carries on an extensive correspondence both literary and
political, _ib._;
acquires for his Library a mass of State Papers, 58;
petitions Queen Elizabeth for the establishment of a National and
Public Library for England, _ib._;
inference which is obviously deducible thence in relation to the
charge that Sir R. Cotton was an embezzler of Public Records,
59.
1607. Receives an address from the Corporation of London, praying him
to restore certain documents alleged to belong to the City
Chamber, _ib._
1608. Proposes to the King certain reforms in the naval
administration of the country, 62;
and obtains Letters Patent, creating a commission of Naval Inquiry,
63;
takes a leading part in the labours of the Commission, and prepares
its report, 63.
1609. His _Report on the Crown Revenues_, and his Memorials on the
necessity for a reform in the royal expenditure, 64.
1611. Proposes to the King the creation of a new hereditary
dignity—the Baronetage of England, 65;
receives that dignity, but is dissatisfied with the mode in which
his idea is worked out, 66.
1613–15. Nature of his political connection and intercourse with the
Earl of Somerset, 67;
his alleged share in carrying on negotiations with Gondomar, in
relation to the projected match with Spain, 68.
1615. He receives a visit from Gondomar, in which that ambassador
introduces himself as a lover of antiquities desirous to view the
Cottonian Library, _ib._;
is charged with the communication of State Papers to Gondomar, 69;
returns the Spanish ambassador’s visit, 70, 71;
Gondomar’s account of what passed at their several interviews,
_ib._;
notices of Mr. S. R. Gardiner’s comments on and deductions from
that account, 72 _note_;
is entrusted by Somerset with the temporary care of certain jewels
of the Crown, 75;
and is consulted by him with reference to the drafting of a royal
pardon to be passed under the Great Seal, 77;
writes a Letter to Prince Charles (afterwards King Charles I), in
relation to foreign affairs and in praise of warlike exercises,
79;
is accused of communicating papers and secrets of State to the
Spanish Ambassador, 79;
proceedings taken against him thereupon, 80 _seqq._
1616, June. Is liberated, 83;
and receives a pardon under the Great Seal, _ib._;
his conduct and his literary labours in retirement, 84 _seqq._;
instances of the liberality with which he communicates his
knowledge and his manuscripts, 87, 88.
1616–23. His share in the labours which resulted in the ‘Petition of
Right,’ 89.
1624, April. His _Remonstrance of the Treaties of Amity and Marriage
with Austria and Spain_ 91;
his advice on the prosecution of the Spanish Ambassadors, and
Report addressed to Buckingham, 92.
1625, August. Speech ascribed to him in the Parliament held at
Oxford, 93;
its eulogy on the political conduct of Somerset, 96;
the friendly intercourse between Cotton and Sir Symonds d’Ewes, 97
_seqq._.
1626. The scene at Cotton House on occasion of the Coronation of
Charles I, 99;
his conduct in 1626 and subsequent years, as an unofficial adviser
of the Crown, 101 _seqq._;
his opinions on Coinage, and on the management of the Royal Mint,
103 _seqq._
1628, Jan. Appears at the Privy Council Board, and delivers a
Discourse advising the immediate calling of a Parliament, 106;
but has no seat in that Parliament, _ib._
1629, November. Is accused of circulating a _Proposition to bridle
Parliaments_, written by Sir Robert Dudley, 107 _seqq._;
History of that production, 110 _seqq._;
Sir Robert’s Library is placed under seal, and remains so until his
death, 107, 117, _seqq._;
intercourse between Ben Jonson and Cotton, 116.
1630. Decline of Cotton’s health, and his correspondence with Dr.
Frodsham, 118;
his visit to Amphyllis Ferrers, and the plot to obtain money from
him, 120 _seqq._;
the proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber thereon, _ib._
1631. Illness, 123;
Conferences with Dr. Oldisworth and with Bishop Williams, 124;
death, 125.

Cotton, Sir Thomas, Bart., 125, 127, 129, 131, 161

Cotton, Thomas, 49, 118

Cotton, William, 49, 53

_Cottoni Posthuma_, 91 _seqq._ and _foot-note_

Courten, Peter, 250

Courten, Sir Peter, 254

Courten, Sir William, Bart., 251, 256, 260, 267

Courten, William (I), 249

Courten, William (II), 257

Courten, William, Founder of the Sloane Museum:
1642, March. Birth and Parentage, 259
1656. Benefaction to the Tradescant Museum, _ib._
1657? Residence at Montpelier, 260
1662. Contention with George Carew respecting the administration of
the Estates of Sir William Courten, 262 _seqq._
1663, July. Presents a petition to King Charles II, 263;
but subsequently enters into a compromise with Carew, _ib._;
and retires to Fawsley, 264
1670. Relinquishes his family name and returns to Montpelier, whence
he makes many Continental tours and extensive Collections both in
Natural History and in Antiquities, 267 _seqq._
1684? Returns to England, 268;
establishes his museum in the Middle Temple, 269;
his correspondence with Sloane, _ib._
1686. Account of a Visit to Courten’s Museum by John Evelyn, 270
1695. Another Account of a like visit by Ralph Thoresby, 271
1695–1701. His closing years, 272
1702, March. Death and monumental inscription, 273

Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt, Notices of the Life and of the Literary
and Archæological Collections of, 417–421;
his Bequests to the Nation, 421

Craven, Keppel, Bequest of, 38

Croft, Sir Thomas Elmsley, 536

Croizet’s Fossil Mammalia collected in Auvergne, 37

Crommelinck, Peter, 249

Cromwell, Oliver, 90

Cromwell, Sir Oliver, 56

Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 370

Cuming, Hugh, Notices of the Life, Travels, and Collections in Natural
History of, 692 _seqq._

Cureton, William, Early labours in Bodley’s Library of, 619;
becomes Assistant-Keeper of MSS. in the British Museum, and devotes
himself to the Oriental Department, 620;
his labours on the MSS. from the Monasteries of Nitria, 621;
and his account of the discoveries there made, given in the
_Quarterly Review_ of 1846, 622;
publishes a Syriac version of the _Festal Letters_ of St. Athanasius,
623;
his _Spicilegium Syriacum_, 624;
other publications and labours, literary and parochial, _ib._;
is made a Royal Trustee, _ib._;
publishes the _Martyrs in Palestine_ of Eusebius, 625;
his lamented death, _ib._

Cuvier, George, 455

Cyrene, Archæological Researches at, 40

D.

Da Costa, Solomon, 328 _seqq._

Daniell, Edward Thomas, Researches in Lycia of, 668

Davis, Nathan, Explorations on the site of Ancient Carthage made by,
and their results, 666 _seqq._

Davy, Sir Humphrey, 508

Debruge Collection, Specimens of Ancient Glass now in the British
Museum formerly in the, 712

Dee, John, 58

De Foe, Daniel, 208

Delessert, Benjamin, 587

Dendy, Sergeant, 131

Dennis, George, Archæological Explorations in Sicily of, 668

Denon, Vivant, 362

_Description of the Ancient Marbles in the British Museum_, 522 _seqq._

_Description of the Terra Cottas in the British Museum_, 522

Des Hayes, M., Tertiary Fossils collected in France by, 38

Dethick, William, 52

D’Ewes, Adrian, 237

D’Ewes, Sir Symonds, Notices of the Researches, the Political Career,
and the Antiquarian Collections of, 82, 83, 91, 97–99, 133, 237

D’Hancarville, J. B., 372, 375

Didyme, Ancient Sculpture brought from, 664

Digby, John, Earl of Bristol, 69

Dordogne, Exploration of the Caves of, and its results, 699

Doubleday, John, 463

Downing, Frances, 134

Downing, Sir George, 134, 262

Drawings, Collections of, 310, 408, 421

Dreux, M. de, Researches on the site of Ancient Carthage carried on by,
626

Dryander, Jonas, 509

Dudley, Edmund, 113

Dudley, Sir Robert, and the _Proposition to bridle the Impertinency of
Parliaments_, 110

Dugdale, Sir William, 435

Durand Collection of Vases, 715

Dureau de La Malle, Researches on the site of Ancient Carthage of, 626

Dutertre, M., 362

Dyson, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Venezuela by, 581

E.

Edmonds, Mr., 59

Edward VI, King of England, 64

Edwards, Major Arthur, Bequest in augmentation of the Cottonian
Library, made by, 142, 305;
this Bequest was, for a long period after the foundation of the
Museum, the mainstay of its Library, 443 and _foot-note_

Edwards, George, 301

Egerton, Francis, Earl of Ellesmere, 597

Egerton, Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, Notices of the Life,
Character, and Testamentary Benefactions of, 446–455

Egerton, Francis, Duke of Bridgewater, K.G., 446

Egerton, Lady Katharine, 257

Egyptian Antiquities, Early History of the Collection of, 347 _seqq._,
362 _seqq._

Egyptian Glass in the Slade Collection, 708

Elgin, Thomas, Earl of. _See_ BRUCE

Eliot, Sir John, 56, 90, 93, 94, 96, 101

Elizabeth, Queen of England, 51, 103, 157

Ellesmere, Francis, Earl of. _See_ EGERTON

Ellis, Sir Henry, Notice of the Literary Labours and Public Services
of, 524–534, 549, 569

Elmsley, Thomas, 419

Empson, James, 304, 322

_Epistles of St. Ignatius_, Syriac Version of, 609

Erskine, William, Oriental MSS. of, 42

Esquimaux Collections made and bequeathed by Henry Christy, 699 _seqq._

Estcourt, T. B. Sotheron, 541

Ethnography and British and Mediæval Antiquities, Organization of the
Department of, 688

Etruria in Staffordshire, Debt to the Hamilton Vases of the Porcelain
Works established at, 353

_Evangeliary of King Ethelstan_, 98

Evelyn, John, 196, 201, 270

F.

Farmer, Richard, 476

Fellows, Sir Charles, Early Life and Travels of, 642;
his researches in Lycia and other parts of Asia, and his excavations
of ancient marbles, 644 _seqq._;
his death, 653;
his views of the date and archæological character of the Lycian
Marbles, 654 _seqq._

Fenwick, Sir John, 206

Fermor, Sir William, 199

Ferrers, Amphyllis, 120

Fitzalan, Henry, Earl of Arundel, 172

Fleetwood, Sir Robert, 254

Forbes, Edward, Researches in Lycia, of, 668

Forshall, Rev. Josiah, 141, 532

Foscarini, Anthony, 179

Foscolo, Hugh, 547

Fossils, Collections of, 22, 26, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 333

Fox, Charles James, 673 _seqq._

Fox, Henry, Lord Holland, 310, 423

Foxe, John, 325

_Fragmenta Scenica Græca_, 441 and _foot-note_

France, State Papers and other MSS. relating to the history of, 456,
572

France, Notice of the early and persistent efforts for the acquisition
for public use of the treasures of Learning and Art made by the
Statesmen of, 348

Franklin, Benjamin, 672, 673

Franks, A. W., Account of some of the choice specimens in the Christy
Collection by, 698 _seqq._;
and of those in the Slade Collection, 708 _seqq._

Fraser, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Tunis by, 581

Frattochi (the ancient Bovillæ), Discovery of Ancient Sculpture at, 401

Frederick, Prince of Wales, 294

Fusée d’Aublet, J. B. C., 509

Fynes Clinton, Henry, Candidature for the Principal-Librarianship of
the Museum of, 533

G.

Gaisford, Thomas, 620, 624

Galloway, Patrick, 155

Gardiner, S. R., Notice of the account of the intercourse between Sir
R. Cotton and the Count of Gondomar given by, 52, 72, 146

Gardiner, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Brazil by, 581

Garnett, Rev. Richard, 549

Garrick, David, 415

Gaston, Duke of Orleans, 270

Gautier, Abbé, 221

George III, King of Great Britain, Gift to the Nation of the Thomason
Library by, 330;
his Political Intercourse with Lord Shelburne, 430 _seqq._;
his Literary tastes and Character, 465 _seqq._;
Formation of his Library, 469;
his Conversations with Johnson and with Beattie, 474 _seqq._;
Pains taken by him in forming a series of the early productions of
the English Press, 477 _seqq._;
Circumstances which attended the Gift of his Library to the Nation,
482 _seqq._

George IV, King of Great Britain, 465, 482 _seqq._

German Albums, series of, 457

German Glass in the Slade Collection, Early, 713

Gibbons, Grinling, 273

Gibson, Benjamin, Remarks of, on the Lycian Marbles discovered by Sir
C. Fellows, 649

Gilbert, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Australia and New Zealand
by, 581

Ginguené, Peter Lewis, Library of, 442, 455

Glass, Slade Collection of Ancient, 708 _seqq._

Goade, Dr., 193

Godolphin, Sydney, Earl of Godolphin, 211

Goldsmith, Oliver, 425

Gondomar, Diego de Sarmiento, Count of, Intercourse of Sir R. Cotton
with, 68, 80, 81, 95, 102, 146

Gorges, Ferdinando, 187

Gosse, P. H., Zoological Collections made in Jamaica by, 581

Goudot, M., Zoological Collections made in Columbia by, 581

Gough, Richard, 529

Gould, John, Zoological Collections made in Australia and in New
Zealand by, 381

Graves, Captain, 651

Gray, John Edward, F.R.S., Public Services of, 577 _seqq._;
his _Illustrations of Indian Zoology_, _ib._;
Catalogues and Synopses of the Natural History Collections originated
by, 578;
Evidence on the comparative state of those Collections in 1836 and in
1849, 579 _seqq._

Greek and Roman Marbles, History of the Collection of, 372 _seqq._

Greek Coins, Collection of, 412, 705

Greek Manuscripts, Researches in the 17th century for the Collection
of, 199 _seqq._

Greek Marbles, Early Researches in the Levant for the acquisition of,
189 _seqq._

Gregg, William, 210

Grenville, Thomas, Notices of the Political Life of, 670 _seqq._;
on his retirement from politics he devotes himself to literary and
social pursuits, and collects his Library, 677 _seqq._;
its character, 678, 681;
his Conversation with Sir A. Panizzi as to its destination, 679

Grenville, Richard, Marquess of Buckingham, 674 _seqq._

Greville, Charles, 356, 459

Grey, Lady Jane, 113, 477

Grey, Henry, Earl of Kent, 254

Grey, Henry, Duke of Kent, 446

Grey, Lady Anna Sophia, 446

Grey, Thomas, Earl of Stamford, 241

Gronovius, John Frederick, Herbarium of, 509

Grosley, Peter John, Account of the early condition and regulations of
the British Museum by, 337

Grotefend, George Frederick, 641

Guenther, Dr., 603

Guiscard, Anthony de, 217

H.

Haeberlein Fossils, 40

Halicarnassian Marbles, 663 _seqq._

Haller von Hallerstein, Charles, 397

Halley, Edmund, 276

Hamilton, Gavin, 372, 374, 376, 406

Hamilton, Sir William, Notices of the Diplomatic Career, the scientific
researches, the archæological and artistic Collections of, 347–360;
his promotion of the explorations of Lord Elgin, 382;
he brings to England the Barberini or Portland Vase, 459

Hamilton, Lady, 356, 358

Hamilton, William Richard, 399

Hampden, John, 300

Hanbury, William, 137, 139

Hancarville, J. B. d’, 352

Harcourt, Simon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, 225

Hardiman, John, 456

Harding Prints and Drawings, 36

Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus, 529

Hardwicke, Major-General, Bequest of Zoological Collections by, 580

Hargrave, Francis, Library of, 435

Harley, Sir Edward, 204, 234

Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford, a Trustee of the Cotton Library under
the Act of 1700, 139;
Parentage and Descent of, 203;
his first public appearance on occasion of the Revolution of 1688,
204;
his Parliamentary and Official Career, 205 _seqq._;
his Secretaryship of State, 207;
he protects De Foe, 208;
the crime of William Gregg and the use made of it by Harley’s
enemies, 210;
his dismissal from the Secretaryship, 211;
he intrigues against the Godolphin Ministry, 212;
becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, 213;
his friendship with Swift, 214;
Guiscard’s attempt on his life and its results, 217;
he becomes Lord High Treasurer, 219;
his intercourse with the ‘October Club,’ 220;
and with the Jacobite exiles, 221 _seqq._;
his intercourse with George the First, 229;
his impeachment, 230;
and trial, 232;
returns to Parliament, 233;
his Domestic Life, 234;
the History of his Library, 235, 477 _seqq._;
its Acquisition by Parliament, 242;
extracts from the Stuart Papers illustrative of the intercourse of
Lord Oxford with the Jacobites subsequently to the Accession of
George I, 242 _seqq._

Harley, Edward, Earl of Oxford, 241, 307

Harpagus, Monuments of the Conquest of Xanthus by, 662

Harpy Tomb, or Pandarus-Tomb, brought from Xanthus, 649, 654

Hartweg, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Mexico by, 581

Hawes, Sir Benjamin, 544

Hawkins, Edward, 43, 532

Hawkins, Ernest, 549

Hawkins, Thomas, 34

Hawley, Sir Henry, 507

Hays’ Egyptian Antiquities, 45

Heber, Richard, 483

Hebrew Books, Collections of, 42, 329

Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, 186

Henry III, King of England, 79

Henry V, King of England, 79

Henry VII, King of England, 113

Henry VIII, King of England, 54

Henry, Prince of Wales, Life and Character, 153 _seqq._;
his intercourse with Ralegh and his influence upon Naval Affairs,
160;
his purchase of Lord Lumley’s Library, 162;
the projects for his marriage, 164;
his death, 166;
union of his Library with that at Whitehall, 167;
subsequent history of the Royal Library until its incorporation with
the British Museum, 168 _seqq._

Heralds’ College, Arundelian MSS. at the, 202

Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 235

Herbert, Elizabeth, 134

Herbert, Lord Chief Justice, 278

Herculaneum, Explorations at, 353

Hickes, Sir Michael, 426

Hickes, Sir William, 426

Hill, Sir John, 322

Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, Benefactions of, 459

Hoeck, J. van, 240

Holles Bentinck, Margaret, Duchess of Portland, 242

Holles, Thomas, 347

Holwell Carr, William, Bequest of Pictures to the British Museum by, 30

Homer, Palimpsest Fragments of, found amongst the MSS. from the Nitrian
Monasteries, 624

Honeywood, Elizabeth, 133

Hope Collection of Vases, 715

Hornemann, Frederick, 504

Horsley, Samuel, Bishop of St. Asaph, 506

Hosking, William, 586

Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton, 64, 66, 81, 113

Howard, Margaret, 132

Howard, Lady Philippa, 370

Howard, Philip, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, 163, 174

Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, Correspondence
with Sir R. Cotton of, 87;
his early life and his career at Court, 174 _seqq._;
beginnings of his extensive Collections in literature, art, and
archæology, 177;
his quarrel with Lord Spencer, _ib._;
the adventure of his wife at Venice and its consequences, 179;
his imprisonment by Charles I, 183 _seqq._;
his efforts in Colonization, 186;
his withdrawal from England, and death, 188;
character and history of the Arundelian Collections, 189 _seqq._

Howard, Henry, Duke of Norfolk, 197, 199

Howell, James, 52, 94, 101

Hubert, Robert, 259

Hugessen, Dorothea, 503

Hugessen, William Weston, 503

Hull, John Fowler, 460

Humboldt, William von, 455, 501

Huntington, Robert, Bishop of Raphoe, 609

Hutchinson, General Lord, 362, 367

Hutton, William, 340

Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 265

Hyde, Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, 572

I.

Icelandic Books, 497

Ignatius, St., Nitrian MSS. of the Epistles of, 609 _seqq._

Inglis, Sir Robert Harry, 542

Institute of Egypt, 362 _seqq._

Institute of France, 505

Irish Manuscripts, Collections of, 456, 457

Italian Topography, Collection of, 460

J.

Jackson, Cyril, 422

Jacquier, M., 509

James I, King of England, &c., 49, 65, 69, 73, 85, 86, 87, 103, 111,
131, 154

James Stuart, Prince of Wales (called ‘The Old Pretender’), 221
_seqq._, 244, 245

James, Richard, 114 _seqq._

Japanese Books, 718 _seqq._

Jenkins, Thomas, 372, 376, 377

Jenkinson, Robert Banks, Earl of Liverpool, 483

Johnson, Samuel, 242, 469, 470, 471, 473, 475

Jolles, Sir John, 59

Jones, John Winter, 568, 575, 600

Jones, Inigo, 163

Jonson, Benjamin, 116

_Journal Britannique_, 343

Joursanvault, Baron de, 536 _seqq._

Junius, Francis, 199

Jussieu, Bernard de, 289

K.

Kaye, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 441

Kennet, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 427

Khorsabad and Kouyunjik, Discoveries at, 629 _seqq._

King, Dr. William, 286

Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 507

Knight, Gowin, 321, 342

Knight, Richard Payne, Notices of the Public and Literary Life, the
Collections, the Writings, and the Benefactions of, 401–412, 460;
his opinions and his Parliamentary Evidence on the Elgin Marbles,
389, 411 _seqq._

Knightley, Sir Richard, 254

Kokscharow Minerals, 42

König, Charles, 532, 575

L.

La Billardière, M. de, Botanical and other Collections of, 500

Lambarde, William, 52

Lambe, Dr., 87

Lansdowne Manuscripts, 526 _seqq._

Lansdowne, William, Marquess of. _See_ PETTY-FITZMAURICE

Lartet, M., 699 _seqq._

La Turbie Gems, 691

Laud, Archbishop, 151

Laurenzano Collection, Marbles formerly in the, 373 _seqq._

La Vallière, Duke of, 472

Layard, Austen Henry, Notices of the Travels, the Archæological
Researches and Collections of, 627 _seqq._

Leach, Dr., 573

Leheup, Peter, and his dealings with the Foundation-Lottery of the
British Museum, 309, 340

Lemery, Nicholas, 275

Le Neve, Peter, 435

Lennox, Esme, Duke of. _See_ STUART

Leochares, Sculptures of, 665

Lerma, Duke of, 71

Lethieullier, Pitt, 347

Lethieullier, Smart, 347

Lethieullier, William, 347

Levant Manuscripts, Early Researches for the Acquisition of, 609
_seqq._

Lever, Sir Ashton, 339

Ley, James, Earl of Marlborough, 53

Leyden, Natural History Museum of, 579

Limyra, Tombs of, 658

Linart, M., Visit to the Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert of, 610

Lincolnshire, Collections for, 435

Lind, Dr., 495

Linkh, James, 397

Linnæus, Charles, 509

Lisle, William, 87

Lloyd, William, Bishop of Lichfield, 236

Locke, John, 267

Lomenie, Henry de, Count of Brienne, Manuscripts of, 235

Long, Charles, Lord Farnborough, 456, 483

Loureiro, John de, Herbarium of, 509

Lucar, Cyril, Patriarch of Constantinople, 167

Lumley, John, Lord Lumley, Library of, 162

Lusieri, John Baptist, 382

Lycian Marbles, 645 _seqq._

Lyttelton, Sir Edward, 254

Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, 206

M.

Macclesfield, Earl of. _See_ PARKER

Madden, Sir Frederick, 122, 141, 523

Magna Græcia, Antiquities from, 351 _seqq._

Major, Richard Henry, 471

Manchester, Henry, Earl of. _See_ MONTAGU

Manuscript Collections, 242, 303, 304, 426, 455, 460, 461, 485, 523,
616–624, 707

Map and Chart Collections, 471

Marsden’s Collections of Oriental Coins, 35

Maty, Matthew, 322, 342

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Sculptures of the, 664 _seqq._

Mausoleum and Cinerary Urns, 522

Maynwaring, Roger, 87

Menou, General, and the Egyptian Antiquities collected by the French
Explorers, 363

Menzies, Archibald, 334

Merret, Christopher, 290

Mewtas, Thomas, 117

Millard, John, 541

Mineralogical Collections, 459, 510, 521

_Minutes of Evidence before Select Committee on the British Museum_ of
1835–36, 555, 558;
—_before the Royal Commissioners of 1848–50_, 566

Moll, Baron von, 413

Mommsen, Tycho, MSS. of, 457

Monck Mason, Henry, MSS. of, 457

Monk, Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, 270

Montagu, Colonel George, Collections in Zoology of, and his public
benefaction, 459, 576, 692

Montagu, John, Earl of Sandwich, 489

Montagu, Ralph, Duke of Montagu, 319

Montagu House and its history, 319, 324

Monticelli’s Minerals, 521

Morghens, Raphael, Prints of, 36

Moritz, Charles, 338

Morrison, Robert, Chinese Library of, 37

Morton, Dr. Charles, 322, 344, 519

Mouncey, John, 250

_Museum Tradescantianum_, 259

Musgrave, Sir William, Benefactions of, 416

Myra, Casts of Rock-Tombs at, 660

N.

Napier of Magdala, Lord, Efforts for the collection of Abyssinian MSS.
and Antiquities during the late Campaign made by, 703 _seqq._

Napoleon and the Institute of Cairo, 366;
his plans for the acquisition of the Marbles of the Parthenon, 384

Natural History Collections, Propositions which have been made for the
removal of the, 513, 594 _seqq._, 744 _seqq._

_Natural History of Jamaica_, 289 _seqq._

Nelson, Horatio, Lord Nelson, 356, 359, 361

Neville, Sir Henry, 55

Newton, Adam, 157

Newton, Charles Thomas, Researches for Antiquities at Halicarnassus,
Branchidæ, Cnidus, &c., of, 663 _seqq._;
his labours in respect to the Woodhouse Collection, 704

Newton, Sir Isaac, 499

Nice, Daniel, Museum of, 195

Nicolas, Sir Harris, 535, 541

Nimeguen, Discovery of Ancient Bronzes near, 409

Nimroud, Excavations of Mr. Layard and his Successors at, 629 _seqq._

Nitrian Monasteries, Account of the successive researches for MSS. in
the Libraries of the, 609 _seqq._

Norgate, Edward, 195

Northampton, Henry, Earl of. _See_ HOWARD

O.

Oldisworth, William, 124

Onslow, Arthur, 306

Orsini, Flavio, MSS. of, 457

Osborne, Sir John, 240

Oswald, James, 673

Ouseley, Sir Gore, 461, 509

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 67, 81, 82, 83

Owen, Admiral Sir Edward, 651

Owen, Richard, on the growth and progress of the Zoological
Collections, 602, 694;
on the state, classification, and requirements of the Collection of
Minerals, 606.

P.

Pacho, Mr., negotiates the transfer from the Monastery of St. Mary
Deipara of a residuary Collection of Syrian MSS. previously
withheld, 618

Paiafa, Xanthian tomb of, 652, 658

Palmer, Sir Geoffrey, 263

Pandarus, Lycian Marbles illustrative of the Legend of, 654

Panizzi, Sir Antonio, 485, 523, 543, 546, 552, 558, 559, 560, 563, 567,
570, 704;
his influence on the bequest of the Grenville Library, 678 _seqq._;
his designs and labours for the construction of the New Reading-Room,
586 _seqq._;
his account of the choice books in the Grenville Collection, 681
_seqq._;
testimony borne in Parliament in 1866 to his public services, 583

Papin, Dionysius, 276

Paramythia (in Epirus), Discovery of ancient Bronzes at, 407

Paris and London Museums compared, 579, 581

Parker, George, Earl of Macclesfield, 299, 304

Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, 58

Parry, John Humffreys, 568

Paynell, Robert, 241

Pelham, Henry, 307, 309

Pell, John, 427

Pennant, Thomas, 496

Percy, Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, 610

Perez, Anthony, 457

Persepolitan Marbles, 461

Persian MSS., 456, 459

Peters, Hugh, 168

Petiver, James, 290

Pett, Phineas, 161

Petty, William, 191, 193

Petty-Fitzmaurice, William, Marquess of Lansdowne, 426 _seqq._, 672

Petyt, William, 435

Phigaleia, Marbles of, 396 _seqq._

Phœnician Glass, 708

Piaggi, Anthony, 358

Pierre-Luisit (Pays-de-Bugey), Discovery of ancient Sculpture at, 407

Pindar, Sir Paul, 260, 267

Pinelli Library, 438

Pirckheimer Library, 195

Pitton de Tournefort, Joseph, 267

Planta, Andrew, 517

Planta, Joseph, Notices of the Life, Literary Works, and Public
Services of, 517 _seqq._

Portland Vase, History of the, 461 _seqq._

Pourtalès Collection of Antiquities, 669

_Proposition to bridle the Impertinency of Parliaments_, 100

R.

Ralegh, Sir Walter, 87, 113, 147, 160, 161, 187

Ratcliffe, John, 476

Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 641

Ray, John, 275, 282

Reid, George William, on Prints in the Slade Collection, 716

Rich, Claudius James, 459, 616

Robartes, John, Earl of Radnor, 241

Roberts, Edward, 25

Roe, Sir Thomas, Researches in the Levant of, 167, 192 _seqq._

Rosetta Inscription, 365 _seqq._

Royal Academy of Arts, 471

Royal Society, 284 _seqq._, 498 _seqq._

Russell, John, Duke of Bedford, 524

Rycaut, Sir Paul, 427

Rye, William Brenchley, 719

Rymer, Thomas, 328

S.

Saint-John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, 212 _seqq._, 309

Saint-John, Oliver, 110, 114

Salisbury, Earl of. _See_ CECIL

Salway, Richard, 268

Sancroft, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 235

Saunders, Dr. Sedgwick, on certain MSS. in the Cotton Collection, 151

Saunders, William, 703 _seqq._

Scharf, George, 645

Scopas, Sculptures of, 665

Segar, Sir William, 435

Seguier, Peter, 235, 240

Selden, John, 97, 130, 131, 419

Sennacherib, Sculptural Monuments of, 633, 640 _seqq._

Serra, Marquess (of Genoa), 665

Seymour, Edward, Duke of Somerset, 64, 211

Sheepshanks, John, 35

Sicily, Archæological Researches in, 668

Siebold, Philip Francis von, Travels and Researches in Japan of, 717
_seqq._;
his Japanese Libraries, 718

Slade, Felix, Collections and Bequests of, 707 _seqq._

Sloane, Sir Hans:
1660–1677–1683. Parentage, and early education in Ireland, 274
1678. Studies Chemistry, Botany, and Medicine in London, 275
1683. Goes to France to prosecute his professional and scientific
education, _ib._
1684. Commences his medical career in London, 276
1687. Proceeds to the West Indies as Physician to the
Governor-General and to the Fleet, and during that Voyage begins
the formation of his Museum, 278 _seqq._
1689. Returns to England with extensive Collections, 281
1693. Becomes Secretary of the Royal Society, 282
1696. Publishes his first scientific work, _ib._
1690 to 1727. Resumes the publication of the suspended _Philosophical
Transactions_, 284;
Discussions between Sloane and Woodward, 286;
Enumeration of the honours and distinctions conferred upon him, 287
1708. Publishes the first volume of the _Natural History of Jamaica_,
288
1710–18. Incorporation of the Collections of Plukenet, Petiver, and
others, with Sloane’s Museum, 290;
his extensive correspondence and charities, 291
1741. Retires to his Manor House at Chelsea, 293
1748. Visit to the Sloane Museum of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
294
1748–9. Last Will and Codicils, 296 _seqq._;
declining years and death, 300;
Comparative Synoptical Table of his Museum in 1725 and in 1753,
303;
its acquisition by Parliament and its public establishment, in
1753, 304 _seqq._

Smirke, Sir Robert, 584 _seqq._

Smirke, Sydney, 587 _seqq._, 596

Smith and Porcher, Explorations at Cyrene of Messrs., 40

Smith, Joseph, 469

Smith, Robert, 59

Smith, Dr. Thomas, 142

Smith, Sir Thomas, 235

Solander, Daniel Charles, 491

Soltikoff Collection, 712

Somers, John, Lord Somers, 139

Somerset, Earl of. _See_ CARR

Somerville, Lord, 480

Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles N. S., Researches in the Nitrian
Monasteries of, 610

Spanish MSS., 456

Spanish Poetry and Drama, Chorley Collection of, 695

Spano (Canon), of Cagliari, 626

Spencer, Charles, Earl of Sunderland, 239

_Specimens of Ancient Sculpture_, 735 _seqq._, 410

Spelman, Sir Henry, 124

Spratt, T. A. B., Researches in Lycia of, 668

Stephen, James Francis, 38

Strozzi Gems, 691

Stuart, Esme, Duke of Lennox, 71, 182

Suffolk, Thomas, Earl of. _See_ HOWARD

Swift, Jonathan, 214 _seqq._

T.

Tattam, Henry, Researches in the Nitrian Monasteries of, 613

Theyer, Charles and John, 168

Thomason, George, 331

Thoresby, John, Visit to Courten’s Museum of, 270

Tischendorf’s Visit to the Nitrian Monasteries, 618

Towneley, Charles, Birth and Ancestry of, 369;
his Continental Education and Travels, 370;
History of his Collection of Ancient Sculpture, 372 _seqq._;
his return to Italy and further enlargement of his Gallery, 377
_seqq._;
its testamentary disposal, and subsequent acquisition by Parliament,
379

Tradescant’s Museum, 259

Tyrwhitt, Thomas, Benefactions of, 417

U.

Utica, Archæological Researches at, 666 _seqq._

V.

Vase Collections, Notices of the growth and extent of the, 351, 386
_seqq._

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 68, 73, 84, 85, 86, 91, 99, 100,
116

Vincent, Augustine, 87

Vossius, Gerard John, 235

W.

Wake, Sir Isaac, 195

Walker, Sir Edward, 176

Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford, 309, 310, 322, 405, 415, 426, 429

Wanley, Humphrey, 143, 235, 236, 238, 240, 241, 427

Warburton, John, 240, 435

Warburton, William, Bishop of Gloucester, 457

Ward, Dr. John, 336, 347, 519

Watts, Thomas, Notice of the Literary Life and Public Services of, 554
_seqq._;
his remarks on the new buildings of the Museum, 585 _seqq._;
his account of the specimens of Bookbinding in the Slade Collection,
716;
and of the Japanese Library of P. F. von Siebold, 719

Watson-Wentworth, Charles, Marquis of Rockingham, 429

Webb, Philip Carteret, 426

Wedgwood, Josiah, 358

Wendeborn, Frederick, 338, 485

Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 111, 186

Wesenham Family, 49

West, James, 427, 476

Whitaker, Lawrence, 117

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, 168

Wilbraham, Roger, 409

Williams, John, Archbishop of York, 87, 124

Witt, George, 696

Wood, Antiquarian explorations at Ephesus of Mr. Consul, 669

Woodhouse, James, Museum of Antiquities formed at Corfu by, 702;
its bequest to the Public, and the circumstances attendant thereon,
703 _seqq._

Woodward, Dr. John, 259, 286

Wotton, Sir Henry, 179, 181

X.

Xanthus and its sculptured monuments, Discovery by Sir C. Fellows of,
645 _seqq._

Y.

Yelverton, Sir Henry, 178

Young, Arthur, 480

Young, Patrick, 167

Young, Thomas, 367

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Footnote 1:

“Or must I, as a wit, with learned air
Like Doctor Dibdin, to Tom Payne’s repair,
Meet Cyril Jackson and mild Cracherode there?
‘Hold!’ cries Tom Payne, ‘that margin let me measure,
And rate the separate value of the treasure’
Eager they gaze. ‘Well, Sirs, the feat is done.
Cracherode’s _Poetæ Principes_ have won!’”
Mathias, _Pursuits of Literature_.

Footnote 2:

Loakes had been purchased from the last owner of the Archdall family
by Henry, Earl of Shelburne. Earl William (first Marquess of
Lansdowne) eventually sold it to the ancestor of the present Lord
Carrington.

Footnote 3:

See, hereafter, in life of T. Grenville, Book III, c. 2.

Footnote 4:

This famous speech was delivered on the 5th of March, 1778. ‘_Then_,’
said Lord Shelburne, after denouncing measures which would sever the
Colonies from the Kingdom, ‘the sun of Great Britain is set. We shall
be no more a powerful or even a respectable people.’—_Parliamentary
Debates_, vol. xix, col. 850.

Footnote 5:

More than one of Burney’s scholars was accustomed to speak feelingly
on the topic of ancient school ‘discipline’ when any passing incident
led the talk in that direction in after life.

Footnote 6:

This small fact in classical bibliography is remarkable enough to call
for some particular exemplifications, beyond those given in the text,
on a former page. Of the three greatest Greek dramatists, Burney had
315 editions against 75 in the Library of the British Museum. Of Homer
he had 87 against 45; of Aristophanes, 74 against 23; of Demosthenes,
50 against 18; and of the _Anthologia_, 30 against 19.

Footnote 7:

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.

Footnote 8:

Of these four thousand pounds, two thousand three hundred and
forty-five pounds seem to have been expended in Printed Books; the
remainder, probably, in Manuscripts.

Footnote 9:

To give but one example: Samuel Burder—the author of the excellent
work, so illustrative of Biblical literature, entitled _Oriental
Customs_—states, in his MS. correspondence now before me, that the
_only_ effective reward given to him, in the course of his long
labours, was given by Lord Bridgewater. The book above mentioned was
‘successful,’ ‘but,’ he says, ‘the booksellers, as usual, reaped the
harvest,’ not the author. It is—shall I say?—an amusing comment on
this latter clause, to find that in one of his letters to Lord
Bridgewater, Burder states that the person who took the most kindly
notice of his literary labours, next after Lord Bridgewater himself,
was—the Emperor of Russia (Alexander I).

Footnote 10:

These form the Egerton MSS. 215 to 262 inclusive.

Footnote 11:

Horace Walpole, at this sale, purchased the fine MS., with drawings by
Julio Clovio, which was long an ornament of the villa at Strawberry
Hill, and also a choice cameo of Jupiter Serapis, for which he gave a
hundred and seventy-three pounds. He preferred, he said, either of
them to the vase. So, at least, he fancied when he found it
unattainable. ‘I am glad,’ he wrote to Conway (18 June, 1786), ‘that
Sir Joshua saw no more excellence in the _Jupiter_ than in the Clovio,
or the Duke, I suppose, would have purchased it as he did the Vase—for
£1000. I told Sir William and the late Duchess—when I never thought
that it would be mine—that I would rather have the head than the
vase.’

Footnote 12:

Lord Harcourt resigned his office of Governor to the Prince at the
beginning of December, 1752. Scott, then the Prince’s tutor, was
recommended to his office by Bolingbroke. The Bishop of Peterborough’s
appointment as Preceptor was made in January, 1753. Among the books
complained of, the _Histoire de la Grande Bretagne_ of Father Orléans,
and the _Introduction à la vie du Roi Henri IV_ of another Jesuit,
Father Péréfixe, are said to have been included. Another and more
famous book, which was much in Prince George’s hands in his early
years, was also obnoxious to the Whigs—Bolingbroke’s _Idea of a
Patriot King_. But it would scarcely have been prudent in the
malcontents to have put a work which (whatever its faults) ranks, to
some extent, among our English classics, in the same expurgatory, or
prohibitory, index with the books of Orléans and of Péréfixe. If
George the Third got some harm out of Lord Bolingbroke’s book, he
probably obtained also some good. Pure Whiggism—pure but not
simple—has never been noted for any discriminating tolerance of
spirit. And, in 1752, it was furious at the prospect that the
continuance of its long domination was imperilled.

Footnote 13: