_History of Europe_ [the precursor of the _Annual Register_], for 1712. Footnote 51: ‘Here are great designs on foot for uniting the Queen’s Library, the Cotton, and the Royal Society’s, together. How soon they may be put in practice time must discover.’—_Sloane to Dr. Charlett, Master of University College_, April, 1707. Footnote 52: Besides those distinctions which I have noted already, he had been requested, in 1730, by the University of Oxford, to allow his portrait to be placed in the University Gallery. In 1733 his statue, by Rysbraeck, was placed in the Botanic Garden at Chelsea. Footnote 53: ‘Walpole is your tyrant to-day; and any man His Majesty pleases to name—Horace or Leheup—may be so to-morrow.’—_Bolingbroke to Marchmont_, 22 July, 1739. Footnote 54: ‘Our House of Commons—mere poachers—are piddling with the torture of Leheup, who extracted so much money out of the Lottery.’—_Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley_, 19 December, 1753. Footnote 55: The term ‘Librarian,’ as used at the British Museum, has never implied any _special_ connection with the Books, printed or manuscript. All the Keepers of Departments were, originally, called ‘Under Librarian.’ The General Superintendent or Warden has always been called ‘Principal Librarian.’ Footnote 56: One of Cook’s many individual gifts was the first Kangaroo ever brought into Europe. Footnote 57: In a copy of this work now before me, the original drawings are bound up with the engravings, and later drawings are added. They serve to show that Sir William’s scientific interest in the subject lasted as long as his life. Footnote 58: That superiority, however, is only partial. The original Naples edition, along with many errors, contains much valuable matter omitted in the reprint. Footnote 59: I find that in this statement—made twenty-four years after the date of the transaction referred to—Sir William’s memory misled him. The amount of the Parliamentary vote was (as I have stated it, on a previous page) eight thousand four hundred pounds. Footnote 60: This John Towneley was sent first to Chester Castle, then to the Marshalsea in Southwark, then to York Castle, and to a block-house in Hull. From Yorkshire he was sent to the Gatehouse at Westminster, and thence to a jail in Manchester. From his Lancashire prison he was presently hustled into Oxfordshire, and sent thence to another prison at Ely. The gallant old recusant survived it all, to die at Towneley at last. Footnote 61: Lancastrian for ‘throw open.’ Footnote 62: _Specimens of Ancient Sculpture._ Published by the Society of Dilettanti, Preface, § 61. Footnote 63: