S7HUCT0RS And ProJectors. Book Hi, eventually decided against the project by their vote of the SET* 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? 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 question— because 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. THE END. GENERAL INDEX Abbot, firorge, Archbishop of Canter- Adair, Sir Robert, 373 JEgmse, Vases and other Antiquities brought from, 386 seqq. Collections from, 699 seqq. 85, 86 Albemarle, Duchess of. See Monk Allan-Greg Cabinet of Minerals, 606 Amadei, Victor, Marbles from the Col- Amba-Bichoi, Biblical MSS. from the America, Pre-historic and Ethnogra- Anadhouly, Exploration by Sir Charles Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, Anderson, Edmund (of Eyworth and Andreossi, Anthony Francis, Count, Re- of; 6io Angouleme, Duke of, 539 Anne, Queen of England, 207 seqq. Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of James 1,153, 156, 166 Fellows at, 644 397 seqq. Argos, Vases and other Antiquities from, Artas of Sidon, Ancient glasswork of, Artemisia, Ancient Sculptures from the Arundel, Earl of. See Fitzalan Arundel, Earl of. See Howard Anmdelian Library, 198 seqq. Arundelian Marbles, 197 seqq. Ashburnham House, Fire at, 140 Askew, Anthony, 472 Assemani, Joseph Simon, and Stephen Assyrian Antiquities, First beginning Athanasius, Saint, Syriac Version of the Athens, Researches of Lord Elgin at, Aublet, John Baptist Christopher Fusee B. Babek, Rev. Henry Hervey, M.A., Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Alban's, Bankes, George, 441 Banks-Hodgkenson, J., 488 Banks, Sir Joseph, Bart., P.R.S., No- Banks, Mrs. S. S., Bequest of, 27 Barbadoes, Notices of the Early His- Barberini (or Portland) Vase, History Barbier, Anthony Alexander, 455 Barbier, Eugene Auguste, 452 Barlow, Hugh, 349 Barnard, Sir Frederick Augusta, La- Barrington, Shute, Bishop of Durham, Barth Cabinet of Gems, 691 Beauclerc, Topham, 425 Beaumont, Sir George, Bart., Bequest Bentinck Papers, 457 Bentley, Richard, D.D., Royal Libra- Berkeley, Mary, 345 Berlin Museum, 579 Bernard, Sir John, 299 Beroldingeu Fossils, 26 Bethel, Slingsby, 299 Biblical MSS. of the Nitrian Monas- Biliotti and Salzmann, Messrs., Ar- Birch, Thos., D.D., Services of, as an Blacas, P. L. J. Casimir de, Duke of Blagrove, Major, 408 Blois, Earls of, Archives, now at Po- Bodley, Sir Thomas, and Sir R. Cotton, Bolingbroke, Henry, Viscount. See St. Bolton, Edmund, 84 Bonaparte, Lucien, Prince of Canino Acquisition of part of the Collection of Vases formed by, 35 Borell, H. P., Collection of Greek and Roman Coins made by, 34 Coins made by, 25,400 seqq., 283, 295, 492 seqq., 507 seqq., 500 Botanical Collections in Germany and Botanical Studies in England, Notice Botanic Gardens at Chelsea, 275, 293, Botanic Garden at Paris, 500 Botta, P. E., Assyrian Researches of, Bondaen, Peter, 255 Bourchier, Sir William, 539 Bowood in Wiltshire, Lord Shelburue's Bowring, J., Entomological Collection Boyle, Robert, 275 Branchidse, Ancient Sculpture brought by C. T. Newton from, 664 lander Fossils,' by, 21, 333 Sloane respecting a French version of the Natural History of Jamaica, 289 Bridges' Zoological Collections made in Bridgewater, Francis Henry, Earl of. Brienne, Henry Lewis de Lomenie de, Brindley, James, 447 British and Mediaeval Antiquities and British Museum, Chronological Epitome Brocas, Elizabeth, 52 Brocas, William, 52 Brondsted, Peter Olave, 399 Brougham, Henry, Lord Brougham and Brown, Robert, F.R.S., Keeper of Bo- Browne, William George, Researches Bruce, Agnes, of Conington in Hunt- Bruce, Thomas, Earl of Elgin and Kin- Bruchmann's Fossils, 39 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Joseph Anthony, Bryant, Jacob, 479 Bryaxis, Ancient Sculptures by, 665 Bnchan, Mr., a Naturalist^engaged in the Voyage of Banks and Cook, 493 Buckingham House and its History, Buckland, William, D.D., 449 Explorations of C. T. Newton and other Archaeologists at, 663 seqq. Researches in Africa of, 404 133, 211 Burney, Charles, D.D., Notices of the Burney, Frances (afterwards Mme. d'Arblay), 475, 503 Palaeography of, 641 Byron, George Gordon, Lord Byron, C. Cadogan, Charles Sloane, 297 Calah (of Genesis) Conjectural identi- Calvert, Sir William, 299 Camden, William, Friendship of Sir Ro- Campi Phlegreei, 350 Canino, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of, Canning, Stratford, Lord Stratford de Canova, Anthony, Opinion on the Elgin Caraffa, Carlo, MSS. of, 457 Carew, George, 261 seqq. Carleton, Dudley, Lord Dorchester, 65, Carlisle, James, Earl of. See Hay. Carmina Qtiadragesimalia of 1748, Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset, Poli- Carr, Frances, Countess of Somerset, 66 seqq. ancient, and their results, 666 seqq. Cary, Henry Francis, Notice of the Casaubon, Isaac, 167 Casier, Margaret, 249 Casley, David, Services of, as Deputy Castile, Earls of, 56 Catharine, Empress of Russia, 407 Catalogue of the Anglo-Gallic Coins, Catalogue of the Printed Books, 523, 533, bSGseqq. Himalayas, by, 39 462 Caxton, William,Seriesof the productions of the press of, 476-478, 681-683 Chaloner, Sir Thomas, 158, 159 Chamberlain, John, 176 Charles I, King of England, 68, 91, 94, 98, 101, 124, 331 297 Chelsea, Manor House of, and its History, 294 seqq. 461 Chinese Antiquities and Curiosities, Choiseul Gouffier, M. G. A. L. de, Chorley, J. Rutter, Collection of Spanish |
