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:
The mansion for which the Trustees of the British Museum had been
asked to give £30,000 was sold, five years afterwards, to the King for
£20,000. It was purchased for the Queen as a jointure-house in lieu of
her proper mansion, Somerset House, then devoted to public purposes.
All the royal princes and princesses were born in Buckingham House,
except George IV, and one, perhaps, of the younger children.
Footnote 14:
The story, I observe, has been endorsed in Mr. Blades’ excellent _Life
of Caxton_ (see part 2, p. 268), but it is undoubtedly a distortion or
exaggeration of some chance occurrence. No such series could have been
formed otherwise than, in the main, by systematic research.
Footnote 15:
_Edinburgh Weekly Journal_, Feb. 1820. The article is reprinted in
_Miscellaneous Prose Works_, Edition of 1841, vol. ii, p. 184.
Footnote 16:
‘Ralph Robinson’ is the name signed to the communications to the
_Annals of Agriculture_, but they are dated from Windsor. (See
_Annals_, vol. vii, 1787.)
Footnote 17:
Curiously enough, three volumes of the Georgian MSS. had belonged to
Sir Hans Sloane, and had, in some unexplained way, come to be
separated from the bulk of his Collection. They now rejoined their old
companions in Great Russell Street.
Footnote 18:
See, before, p. 339.
Footnote 19:
John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich (1729–1792).
Footnote 20:
Solander, who was afterwards to be so intimately connected with the
Banksian Collections, had been for some years in this country when he
was selected by Banks to be one of his companions in the voyage of
_The Endeavour_. He was born in Sweden, in the year 1736. He came to
England in July, 1760. He succeeded Dr. Maty, as Under-Librarian of
the British Museum, in 1773, when Maty was made Principal-Librarian.
At that date he had already served the Trustees for many years as one
of their Assistant-Librarians.
Footnote 21:
See Book I, c. 6.
Footnote 22:
Bishop Horsley certainly forgot the ever-memorable words which he had
so often read—Matt. v, 44—when he, a prelate, signed himself
‘Misogallus.’
Footnote 23:
Morton died at eighty-three; Planta, at eighty-four; Ellis, at
ninety-two. Morton, as we have seen, was known to Sir Hans Sloane.
Sloane was already a noted man in the days of Charles the Second; and
he also lived to be ninety-two. The joint lives of Sloane, Morton, and
Ellis extended over nearly two hundred and ten years.
Footnote 24:
I do not make this statement without ample warrant. When preparing,
under Lord Romilly’s direction, my humble contribution of the lost
_Liber de Hyda_ to the series of _Chronicles and Memorials_, I had
competent occasion to test the _Monasticon_ of 1813–1824, and found it
to teem with errors and oversights in that part of it which I had then
to do with. I had had other occasions to study it somewhat closely
twenty years before, and with like result. At the interval of twenty
years, one could hardly stumble twice upon exceptionally ill-edited
portions of such a book. For the new ‘Dugdale,’ thus truthfully
characterised, subscribers paid a hundred and thirty pounds for small
paper, two hundred and sixty pounds for large paper, copies; and the
number of subscribers was considerable. So much for the ‘We must
retrench’ of the publishers.
Footnote 25:
After stating that Mr. Ellis had made needless proclamation at Paris
of the object of his journey, Sir Harris Nicolas proceeds thus:—‘Not
contented with this injudicious and useless development of the objects
in view, the learned gentleman himself pompously announced wherever he
went that he was the “Chief Librarian of the British Museum,” sent
specially to treat for these manuscripts, thus making a public affair
of what should have been kept private. The effect of this folly may
easily be imagined. Long before the “Chief Librarian” reached Pomard,
the French newspapers expressed their indignation that historical
muniments should be sold to the British Government, inferring that
England must be anxious to possess the records in question, when the
purchase of them was made an official business.
‘The effect of all this parade upon the owner of the manuscripts was a
natural one; he fancied he had erred in his estimate of their value,
and that, as they seemed to be objects of national importance to
another Government, he resolved to make that Government pay at a much
higher rate, for what they manifested such extraordinary anxiety to
obtain, than a private individual. On the “Chief Librarian’s” arrival
at Pomard, he discovered that the Baron could speak little English;
and the Baron, as he has since asserted, discovered that the “Chief
Librarian” could speak less French; hence it was with great difficulty
that the latter could understand that the Baron had become so
enlightened about his treasures as to expect, not merely double the
price he originally asked for them, but as our Government had
interfered on the subject, he wished it to advance one step further,
by inducing his Most Christian Majesty to raise his Barony into a
Comté. Such terms were out of the question; and after spending two or
three hours only in examining the Collection, but which required at
least as many weeks, the “Chief Librarian” returned to England _re
infecta_, and made his report to the Trustees, who refused to purchase
the Collection, but offered to buy a few documents, which the owner,
of course, declined. Thus, highly valuable documents are lost to the
Museum and to the country, in consequence, solely and entirely, of the
absurd measures adopted for their acquisition.’—NICOLAS, _Observations
on the State of Historical Literature in England_, pp. 78–80. My long
and observant acquaintance with Sir H. Nicolas justifies me in adding
to this extract—in which there are such obvious exaggerations of
statement—that I am convinced he was writing from insufficient and
inaccurate information. He was incapable of wilful misstatement.
Footnote 26:
I was myself present at an interview (in Lambeth), when the most
urgent influence was used with Mr. Hawes to induce him to attack Mr.
Panizzi’s original appointment as an ‘Assistant-Librarian’; and I
heard him express a strong approval of it, on the ground of the
obvious qualifications and abilities of the individual officer—though
himself sharing the opinion that in such appointments Englishmen
should have the preference.
Footnote 27:
It was in the old rooms in the Court-yard of Montagu House that
Charles Lamb enjoyed the last, I think, of his ‘dinings-out.’ A few
days after his final visit (November, 1834) the hand of Death was
already upon him. Cary, before writing the well-known epitaph, wrote
some other graceful and touching lines on his old friend. They were
occasioned by finding, in a volume lent to Lamb by Cary, Lamb’s
bookmark, against a page which told of the death of Sydney. They begin
thus:—
‘So should it be, my gentle friend,
Thy leaf last closed at Sydney’s end;
Thou too, like Sydney, wouldst have given
The water, thirsting, and near Heaven.’
Footnote 28:
It is necessary that I should state, with precision, the sources of
the information conveyed in the text. I rely, chiefly, on three
several sources, one of which is publicly accessible. My main
knowledge of the matter rests (first) upon the _Minutes of Evidence_
taken by Lord Ellesmere’s Commission of 1848–1850; (secondly) upon
conversations with the late Mr. Edward Hawkins, held in July and
August, 1837, not long after the appearance of Mr. Cary’s letter in
_The Times_; (thirdly) upon a conversation, on the same subject, with
which I was honoured by Sir Henry Ellis in 1839.
Footnote 29:
I believe that his earliest contribution consisted of some articles
entitled ‘Notes of a Reader,’ published in 1830, in a periodical (long
since defunct) called _The Spirit of Literature_. These were written
and printed long before Mr. Watts became a correspondent of the
_Mechanics’ Magazine_, as mentioned in the text.
Footnote 30:
In _Minutes of Evidence_ (page 596) printed erroneously
‘_reasonable_.’ To the brief extract, for which alone I can here
afford space, were appended, in the original Report, many pertinent
amplifications and illustrations. Some of these are given in the
_Minutes of Evidence_ above referred to.
Footnote 31:
The ‘successor’ referred to is Mr. Winter Jones, then Keeper of
Printed Books, now Principal-Librarian of the British Museum.
Footnote 32:
Birch, _Ancient Pottery_, vol. i, pp. 209, 210.
Footnote 33:
If the question of mere hints and analogies in construction were to be
followed out to its issues, the result, I feel assured, would in no
degree tend to strengthen the contention of Mr. Hosking’s pamphlet.
Something like a first germ of the mere ground-plan of the new
Reading-Room may, perhaps, be found in M. Benjamin Delessert’s _Projet
d’une Bibliothèque circulaire_, printed, at Paris, as far back as the
year 1835, when the question of reconstructing the then ‘Royal,’ now
‘Imperial Library,’ was under discussion in the French Chambers. ‘I
propose,’ says Delessert, ‘to place the officers and the readers in
the centre of a vast rotunda, whence branch off eight principal
galleries, the walls of which form diverging radii ... and _have
book-cases on both sides_,’ &c. His plan may be thus shown, in small.
The differences, it will be seen, between this sketch and Mr.
Panizzi’s sketch of 1854, are greater than are the resemblances.
[Illustration]
Footnote 34:
Namely, two millions five hundred and twenty-seven thousand two
hundred and sixteen visits, which _included_ seventy-eight thousand
two hundred and eleven visits to the Reading-Room for study.
Footnote 35:
In—unless a memory more than thirty years old deceive me—that noble
masterpiece of English prose, the ‘_Citation of Shakespeare for
Deer-stealing_’ (1835).
Footnote 36:
The Oriental Translation Fund.
Footnote 37:
Comp. ‘Asshur builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and
_Calah_.’—_Gen._ x, 11. Mr. Layard quotes this passage, in _Nineveh
and its Remains_ (vol. i, p. 4, edit. 1849), and seems to identify
‘Kalah Sherghat’ as retaining its ancient name.
Footnote 38:
Nor was there any petty or unworthy jealousy in the distinguished
French explorer. ‘During the entire period of his excavations,’ writes
Mr. Layard, ‘M. Botta regularly sent me, not only his [own]
descriptions, but copies of the inscriptions, without exacting any
promise as to the use I might make of them. That there are few who
would have acted thus liberally, those who have been engaged in a
search after Antiquities in the East will not be inclined to
deny.’—_Nineveh and its Remains_, vol. i, p. 14.
Footnote 39:
It is a slight blemish in Mr. Layard’s otherwise admirable books that
they are loose in the handling of dates. It is sometimes necessary to
turn over hundreds of pages in order to be sure of the year in which a
particular excavation was made, or in which an interesting incident
occurred. Sometimes, again, there is an actual conflict of dates, _e.
g._ _Discoveries in the Ruins_, &c. (1853), p. 3, ‘After my departure
from Mósul in 1847,’ and again, p. 66, ‘On my return to Europe in
1847;’ but at p. 162, we read: ‘Having been carefully covered up with
earth, previous to my departure in 1848, they [the lions] had been
preserved,’ &c. I mention this simply because it is possible that
error may thus, once or twice, have crept into the marginal dates
given above, though pains has been taken about these.
Footnote 40:
The Berodach-Baladan of 2 Kings, xx, 12, who ‘sent letters and a
present unto Hezekiah, when he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.’
Footnote 41:
And in which not a few readers will be sure to feel all the more
interest, because of its sacred associations, when they call to mind
those first-century travels of certain famous travellers who, ‘after
they had passed throughout Pisidia, came to Pamphylia, and ... when
they had gone through Phrygia, ... and were come to Mysia, assayed to
go into Bythinia, but the Spirit suffered them not;’—having work for
them to do in another quarter.
Footnote 42:
I shall not, I trust, be suspected of a want of gratitude for the
eminent and most praiseworthy efforts of Mr. Davis—one of the many
Americans who have returned, with liberal profuseness, the reciprocal
obligations which _all_ Americans owe to Britain (for their ancestry,
and also for the noble interchange of benefits between parent and
offspring, prior to 1776; if for nought else), if I venture to remark
that the above-written passage in the text has been inserted somewhat
hesitatingly, as far as it concerns the _date_ of the Carthaginian
explorations. No index; no summary; no marginal dates; conflicting and
obscure dates, when any dates appear anywhere; no introduction, which
introduces anything; scarcely any divarication of personal knowledge
and experiences, from borrowed knowledge and experiences; such are
some of the difficulties which await the student of _Carthage and her
Remains_. Yet the book is full of deep interest; its author is, none
the less, a benefactor to Britain, and to the world.
Footnote 43:
These were given to the Museum by Lord Russell, as Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs. Lord Russell was one of the earliest of the
Foreign Secretaries who began a new epoch, in this department of
public duty, by setting new official precedents of regard and
forethought for the augmentation of the national collections.
Footnote 44:
Meaning Lord Shelburne. See, heretofore, pp. 431–433.
Footnote 45:
‘_A Handy-Book of the British Museum, for Every-day Readers._’ 1870
(Cassell and Co.).
Footnote 46:
See the notice, hereafter, of the Christy Museum.
Footnote 47:
This, I think, has been clearly shown by the correspondence laid
before Parliament. The reader is referred to the papers of the session
of 1867, entitled _Correspondence as to the Woodhouse Collection of
Antiquities_, printed by order of Lord Derby, as Foreign Secretary.
Footnote 48:
In the accompanying Plan (of the Parliamentary Report, 1860),
pilasters of unnecessary size have been inadvertently introduced into
this gallery, reducing both the extent of the wall-cases, and the
breadth of the gangway, in a manner never intended.
Footnote 49:
Printed by oversight ‘general’ in the _Minutes of Evidence_.
Footnote 50:
Printed ‘object’ in _Minutes of Evidence_, as above.
Footnote 51:
It is to this Report of 1862 that the accompanying lithographic
fac-similes of the original illustrative plans belong. Two of them
show the then existing arrangements of the principal floors; the other
two show the then proposed alterations and re-arrangements.
Footnote 52:
Parliamentary Return, No. 456, of the Session 1858.
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