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points touched upon in this Report, and their details. This Committee Book III, would be similar to that which the Trustees requested the Treasury to Chap. VII. 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 JECTORS. 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. 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.

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Before Parliament, this plan of severance and of rearrangement--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. 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 THE PARLIA eminent men of science in favour of continuance and DEBATE OF enlargement, rather than of severance and removal; all 1862. 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

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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?

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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 questionbecause 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.

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GENERAL INDEX.

ABBOT, George, Archbishop of Canter

bury, 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

Eginæ, 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 Col

lection 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

Angoulême, 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 Etrusques, &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 segg.
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., No-
tices of the Life, Travels, Labours,
and Benefactions of, 335, 480–489,
497-501, 509; His Correspondence
with Sir William Hamilton on Vol-
canic Eruptions, 354 seqq.
Banks, Mrs. S. S., Bequest of, 27
Barbadoes, Notices of the Early His-
tory of the Island of, and of the
attempts at plantation there made by
William Courten and others, 251
seqq., 261 seqq.; Botanizing Expe-
dition 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, La-
bours 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 Libra-
rianship of, 140, 169
Berkeley, Mary, 345
Berlin Museum, 579
Bernard, Sir John, 299
Beroldingen Fossils, 26
Bethel, Slingsby, 299

Biblical MSS. of the Nitrian Monas-
teries, 610 seqq.

Biliotti and Salzmann, Messrs., Ar

chæological Researches of, in the
Island of Rhodes, 669
Birch, Thos., D.D., Services of, as an
early Trustee, 415 seqq.; his be
quests, 415

Blacas, P. L. J. Casimir de, Duke of
Blacas, Museum of, 689 seqq.
Blagrove, Major, 408

Blois, Earls of, Archives, now at Po

mard, 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 segg., 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

Branchida, 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 Medieval 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 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 Archeologists 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.

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