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 _seqq._, 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 Branchidæ, Ancient Sculpture brought by C. T. Newton from, 664 Brander, Gustavus, Gift of the ‘Solander 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 Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography, Formation of the new Department of, 688 British Museum, Chronological Epitome of the principal incidents in the formation, enlargement, and growth of the successive Collections which constitute 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 Archæologists at, 663 _seqq._ Burckhardt, John Lewis, Travels and Researches in Africa of, 404 Burlamachi, Philip, 250 Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 133, 211