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 discove-
ries 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 'So-
lander 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 Mediaval Antiquities and
Ethnography, Formation of the new
Department of, 688

British Museum, Chronological Epitome
of the principal incidents in the for-
mation, enlargement, and growth of
the successive Collections which con-
stitute 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 Bo-
tany, Services of, 507, 508

Browne, William George, Researches
in the Nitrian Monasteries of, 610
Bruce, Agnes, of Conington in Hunt-
ingdonshire, 49

Bruce, Thomas, Earl of Elgin and Kin-
cardine, 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 archæolo-
gical 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 identi-
fication of, 629

Calvert, Sir William, 299
Camden, William, Friendship of Sir Ro-
bert 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 Phlegrai, 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 spe-
cimens of the sculptures of the Mau-
soleum 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, Poli-
tical 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 be-
queathed by, 695 seqq.

Christy, Henry, Notices of the Life,
Beneficence, and Archæological ex-
plorations of, 697 seqq.; his Collec-
tions 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, Cam-
bridgeshire), 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 em-
ployed by the Queen to prepare
a tractate on the precedency of
England over Spain, 55; ana-
lysis 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 Hun-
tingdonshire, 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 esta-
blishment of a National and
Public Library for England, ib. ;
inference which is obviously de-
ducible 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 administra-
tion 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

Cotton, Sir R. (continued).
1609. His Report on the Crown Re-
venues, and his Memorials on the
necessity for a reform in the
royal expenditure, 64
1611. Proposes to the King the crea-
tion 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 Gon-

domar, in which that ambassa-
dor introduces himself as a lover
of antiquities desirous to view
the Cottonian Library, ib.; is
charged with the communica-
tion of State Papers to Gondo-
mar, 69; returns the Spanish
ambassador's visit, 70, 71; Gon-
domar'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 en-
trusted by Somerset with the
temporary care of certain jewels
of the Crown, 75; and is con-
sulted 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 com-
municating papers and secrets
of State to the Spanish Ambas-
sador, 79; proceedings taken
against him thereupon, 80 seqq.

Cotton, Sir R. (continued).
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 liber-
ality with which he communi-
cates 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 Mar-
riage with Austria and Spain,
91; his advice on the prosecu-
tion of the Spanish Ambassa-
dors, 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 be-
tween 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 Coin-
age, and on the management of
the Royal Mint, 103 seqq.
1628, Jan. Appears at the Privy Coun-
cil Board, and delivers a Dis-
course advising the immediate
calling of a Parliament, 106; but
has no seat in that Parliament, ib.
1629, November. Is accused of cir-

culating a Proposition to bridle
Parliaments, written by Sir
Robert Dudley, 107 seqq.; His-
tory 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.

tory and in Antiquities, 267
seqq.

1684? Returns to England, 268;
establishes his museum in the
Middle Temple, 269; his corre
spondence 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. lite-
rary and parochial, ib.; is made a
Royal Trustee, ib.; publishes the
Martyrs in Palestine of Eusebius
625; his lamented death, ib.
Cuvier, George, 455