Információ erről a könyvről
Saját könyvtáram
Könyvek a Google Playen
CHAPTER IV.
THE COLLECTOR OF THE ARUNDELIAN MSS.
Political Exile and Foreign Travel under Elizabeth and under James.
-Life of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.-The Consolations
of Connoisseurship.-Vicissitudes of the Arundel Museum.-The
gifts of Henry Howard to the Royal Society
CHAPTER V.
THE COLLECTOR OF THE HARLEIAN MSS.
The Harley Family.-Parliamentary and Official Career of Robert
Harley, Earl of Oxford.-The Party Conflicts under Queen Anne.
-Robert Harley and Jonathan Swift.-Harley and the Court of
the Stuarts.-Did Harley conspire to restore the Pretender?—
History of the Harleian Library.-The Life and Correspondence
of Humphrey Wanley
CHAPTER VI.
THE FOUNDERS OF THE SLOANE MUSEUM.
Flemish Exiles in England.-The Adventures, Mercantile and Colonial
Enterprises, and Vicissitudes of the Courtens.-William Courten
and his Collections.-The Life and Travels of Sir Hans Sloane.—
His acquisition of Courten's Museum.-Its Growth under the new
Possessor.-History of the Sloane Museum and Library, and of
their purchase by Parliament
PAGE
172
203
247
BOOK THE SECOND.
THE ORGANIZERS, AND EARLY
AUGMENTORS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
Househunting.-The Removal of the Sloane Museum from Chelsea.— Montagu House, and its History.-The Early Trustees and Officers.
-The Museum Regulations.-Early Helpers in the Foundation
and Increase of the British Museum.-Epochs in the Growth of the
Natural History Collections.-Experiences of Inquiring Visitors
in the years 1765-1784
317
CHAPTER II.
A GROUP OF CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGISTS AND
EXPLORERS.
Sir William Hamilton and his Pursuits and Employments in Italy.-
The Acquisitions of the French Institute of Egypt, and the capture
of part of them at Alexandria.-Charles Towneley and his Collec-
tion of Antiquities.-The Researches of the Earl of Elgin in Greece.
-The Collections and Writings of Richard Payne Knight
346
CHAPTER III.
A GROUP OF BOOK-LOVERS AND PUBLIC BENEFACTORS.
Notices of some early Donors of Books.-The Life and Collections of
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode.-William Petty, first Marquess of
Lansdowne, and his Library of Manuscripts.-The Literary Life
and Collections of Dr. Charles Burney.-Francis Hargrave and
his Manuscripts.-The Life and Testamentary Foundations of
Francis Henry Egerton, Ninth Earl of Bridgewater
413
THE KING'S OR GEORGIAN' LIBRARY;-ITS COLLECTOR,
AND ITS DONOR.
Notices of the Literary Tastes and Acquirements of King George the
Third-His Conversations with Men of Letters.-History of his
Library and of its Transfer to the British Nation by George the
Fourth
464
THE FOUNDER OF THE BANKSIAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.
The Life, Travels, and Social Influence, of Sir Joseph Banks.-The
Royal Society under his Presidency.-His Collections and their
acquisition by the Trustees of the British Museum.-Notices of
some other contemporaneous accessions
487
BOOK THE THIRD.
LATER AUGMENTORS AND
BENEFACTORS.
1829-1870.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION, AS PRINCIPAL-
LIBRARIAN, OF JOSEPH PLANTA.
Notices of the Life of Joseph Planta, third Principal-Librarian.—
Improvements in the Internal Economy of the Museum introduced
or recommended by Mr. Planta.-His labours for the enlargement
of the Collections-and on the Museum Publications and Cata-
logues.-The Museum Gardens and the Duke of Bedford
515
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued) :--GROWTH, PRO-
GRESS, AND INTERNAL ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM, DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR HENRY ELLIS.
Internal Economy of the Museum at the time of the death of Joseph
Planta.-The Literary Life and Public Services of Sir Henry
Ellis.-The Candidature of Henry Fynes Clinton.-Progress of
Improvement in certain Departments.-Introduction of Sir Antonio
Panizzi into the Service of the Trustees.-The House of Commons'
Committee of 1835-36.-Panizzi and Henry Francis Cary.--
Memoir of Cary.-Panizzi's Report on the proper Character of a
National Library for Britain, made in October, 1837.-His suc-
cessive labours for Internal Reform.-And his Helpers in the work.
-The Literary Life and Public Services of Thomas Watts.-Sir
A. Panizzi's Special Report to the Trustees of 1845, and what
thereout.-Progress, during Sir H. Ellis's term of office, of the
several Departments of Natural History and of Antiquities
grew
.
527
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (continued) :-GROWTH, PRO-
MUSEUM DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF
SIR ANTONIO PANIZZI.
The Museum Buildings.-The New Reading-Room and its History.-
The House of Commons' Committee of 1860.-Further Reorganiza-
tion of the Departments.-Summary of the Growth of the Collec
tions in the years 1856-1866, and of their increased Use and
Enjoyment by the Public.
583
ANOTHER GROUP OF ARCHEOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS.—
THE SPOILS OF XANTHUS, OF BABYLON, OF NINEVEH,
OF HALICARNASSUS, AND OF CARTHAGE.
The Libraries of the East.-The Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert, and
their Explorers.-William Cureton and his Labours on the MSS.
of Nitria, and in other Departments of Oriental Literature.-The
Researches in the Levant of Sir Charles Fellows, of Mr. Layard,
and of Mr. Charles Newton.-Other conspicuous Augmentors of
the Collection of Antiquities
THE FOUNDER OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY.
608
The Grenvilles and their Influence on the Political Aspect of the
Georgian Reigns.-The Public and Literary Life of the Right
Honourable Thomas Grenville.-History of the Grenville Library 670
CONTENTS.
OTHER BENEFACTORS OF RECENT DAYS.
The
Recent Contributors to the Natural History Collections.
Duke of Blacas and his Museum of Greek and Roman Anti-
quities.-Hugh Cuming and his Travels and Collections in South
America.-John Rutter Chorley, and his Collection of Spanish
Plays and Spanish Poetry.-George Witt and his Collections
illustrative of the History of Obscure Superstitions.-The Ethno-
graphical Museum of Henry Christy, and its History.-Colonial
Archeologists and British Consuls: The History of the Wood-
house Collection, and of its transmittal to the British Museum.—
Lord Napier and the Acquisition of the Abyssinian MSS.-The
Art Collections and Bequests of Felix Slade. The Travels and the Japanese Library of Von Siebold
CHAPTER VII.
RECONSTRUCTORS AND PROJECTORS.
The Plans and Projects for the Severance and Partial Dispersion of
the Collections which at present form The British Museum,' and
for their re-combination and re-arrangement.
686
721
INDEX
763