Courten, William, Founder of the Sloane Museum: 1642, March. Birth and Parentage, 259 1656. Benefaction to the Tradescant Museum, _ib._ 1657? Residence at Montpelier, 260 1662. Contention with George Carew respecting the administration of the Estates of Sir William Courten, 262 _seqq._ 1663, July. Presents a petition to King Charles II, 263; but subsequently enters into a compromise with Carew, _ib._; and retires to Fawsley, 264 1670. Relinquishes his family name and returns to Montpelier, whence he makes many Continental tours and extensive Collections both in Natural History and in Antiquities, 267 _seqq._ 1684? Returns to England, 268; establishes his museum in the Middle Temple, 269; his correspondence with Sloane, _ib._ 1686. Account of a Visit to Courten’s Museum by John Evelyn, 270 1695. Another Account of a like visit by Ralph Thoresby, 271 1695–1701. His closing years, 272 1702, March. Death and monumental inscription, 273 Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt, Notices of the Life and of the Literary and Archæological Collections of, 417–421; his Bequests to the Nation, 421 Craven, Keppel, Bequest of, 38 Croft, Sir Thomas Elmsley, 536 Croizet’s Fossil Mammalia collected in Auvergne, 37 Crommelinck, Peter, 249 Cromwell, Oliver, 90 Cromwell, Sir Oliver, 56 Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 370 Cuming, Hugh, Notices of the Life, Travels, and Collections in Natural History of, 692 _seqq._ Cureton, William, Early labours in Bodley’s Library of, 619; becomes Assistant-Keeper of MSS. in the British Museum, and devotes himself to the Oriental Department, 620; his labours on the MSS. from the Monasteries of Nitria, 621; and his account of the discoveries there made, given in the _Quarterly Review_ of 1846, 622; publishes a Syriac version of the _Festal Letters_ of St. Athanasius, 623; his _Spicilegium Syriacum_, 624; other publications and labours, literary and parochial, _ib._; is made a Royal Trustee, _ib._; publishes the _Martyrs in Palestine_ of Eusebius, 625; his lamented death, _ib._ Cuvier, George, 455 Cyrene, Archæological Researches at, 40 D. Da Costa, Solomon, 328 _seqq._ Daniell, Edward Thomas, Researches in Lycia of, 668 Davis, Nathan, Explorations on the site of Ancient Carthage made by, and their results, 666 _seqq._ Davy, Sir Humphrey, 508 Debruge Collection, Specimens of Ancient Glass now in the British Museum formerly in the, 712 Dee, John, 58 De Foe, Daniel, 208 Delessert, Benjamin, 587 Dendy, Sergeant, 131 Dennis, George, Archæological Explorations in Sicily of, 668 Denon, Vivant, 362 _Description of the Ancient Marbles in the British Museum_, 522 _seqq._ _Description of the Terra Cottas in the British Museum_, 522 Des Hayes, M., Tertiary Fossils collected in France by, 38 Dethick, William, 52