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 _seqq._ 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., Notices of the Life, Travels, Labours, and Benefactions of, 335, 480–489, 497–501, 509; His Correspondence with Sir William Hamilton on Volcanic Eruptions, 354 _seqq._ Banks, Mrs. S. S., Bequest of, 27 Barbadoes, Notices of the Early History of the Island of, and of the attempts at plantation there made by William Courten and others, 251 _seqq._, 261 _seqq._; Botanizing Expedition 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, Labours 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 Librarianship of, 140, 169 Berkeley, Mary, 345 Berlin Museum, 579 Bernard, Sir John, 299 Beroldingen Fossils, 26 Bethel, Slingsby, 299 Biblical MSS. of the Nitrian Monasteries, 610 _seqq._ Biliotti and Salzmann, Messrs., Archæological Researches of, in the Island of Rhodes, 669 Birch, Thos., D.D., Services of, as an early Trustee, 415 _seqq._; his bequests, 415 Blacas, P. L. J. Casimir de, Duke of Blacas, Museum of, 689 _seqq._ Blagrove, Major, 408 Blois, Earls of, Archives, now at Pomard, of the, 536 _seqq._ Bodley, Sir Thomas, and Sir R. Cotton, 332 Bolingbroke, Henry, Viscount. _See_ St. John