Merret, Christopher, 290 Mewtas, Thomas, 117
Millard, John, 541
Mineralogical Collections, 459, 510, 521
Minutes of Evidence before Select Com- mittee 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 bene- faction, 459, 576, 692
Montagu, John, Earl of Sandwich,
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
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, Proposi-
tions 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, Branchida, Cnidus, &c., of, 663 seqq.; his labours in respect to the Wood- house 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
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.
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 be- quest 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 Col- lection, 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 Can- terbury, 58
Parry, John Humffreys, 568
Paynell, Robert, 241
Pelham, Henry, 307, 309
Pennant, Thomas, 496
Percy, Algernon, Duke of Northum-
berland, 610 Perez, Anthony, 457 Persepolitan Marbles, 461 Persian MSS., 456, 459
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
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
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,
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 ex- tensive 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 con- ferred upon him, 287
1708. Publishes the first volume of the Natural History of Jamaica, 288
1710-18. Incorporation of the Col- lections of Plukenet, Petiver, and others, with Sloane's Museum, 290; his extensive correspondence and charities,
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 acquisi- tion by Parliament and its pub- lic 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 Monas- teries 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
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 Glou- cester, 457
Ward, Dr. John, 336, 347, 519 Watts, Thomas, Notice of the Literary Life and Public Services of, 554 seqq.; his remarks on the buildings of the Museum, 585 seqq.; his account of the specimens of Book- binding 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,
Wood, Antiquarian explorations at Ephesus of Mr. Consul, 669 Woodhouse, James, Museum of Anti- quities formed at Corfu by, 702; its bequest to the Public, and the cir- cumstances attendant thereon, 703 seqq.
Woodward, Dr. John, 259, 286 Wotton, Sir Henry, 179, 181
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