Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
Book collectors -- Great Britain; British Museum
Foscarini, Anthony, 179
Foscolo, Hugh, 547
Fossils, Collections of, 22, 26, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 333
Fox, Charles James, 673 _seqq._
Fox, Henry, Lord Holland, 310, 423
Foxe, John, 325
_Fragmenta Scenica Græca_, 441 and _foot-note_
France, State Papers and other MSS. relating to the history of, 456,
572
France, Notice of the early and persistent efforts for the acquisition
for public use of the treasures of Learning and Art made by the
Statesmen of, 348
Franklin, Benjamin, 672, 673
Franks, A. W., Account of some of the choice specimens in the Christy
Collection by, 698 _seqq._;
and of those in the Slade Collection, 708 _seqq._
Fraser, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Tunis by, 581
Frattochi (the ancient Bovillæ), Discovery of Ancient Sculpture at, 401
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 294
Fusée d’Aublet, J. B. C., 509
Fynes Clinton, Henry, Candidature for the Principal-Librarianship of
the Museum of, 533
G.
Gaisford, Thomas, 620, 624
Galloway, Patrick, 155
Gardiner, S. R., Notice of the account of the intercourse between Sir
R. Cotton and the Count of Gondomar given by, 52, 72, 146
Gardiner, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Brazil by, 581
Garnett, Rev. Richard, 549
Garrick, David, 415
Gaston, Duke of Orleans, 270
Gautier, Abbé, 221
George III, King of Great Britain, Gift to the Nation of the Thomason
Library by, 330;
his Political Intercourse with Lord Shelburne, 430 _seqq._;
his Literary tastes and Character, 465 _seqq._;
Formation of his Library, 469;
his Conversations with Johnson and with Beattie, 474 _seqq._;
Pains taken by him in forming a series of the early productions of
the English Press, 477 _seqq._;
Circumstances which attended the Gift of his Library to the Nation,
482 _seqq._
George IV, King of Great Britain, 465, 482 _seqq._
German Albums, series of, 457
German Glass in the Slade Collection, Early, 713
Gibbons, Grinling, 273
Gibson, Benjamin, Remarks of, on the Lycian Marbles discovered by Sir
C. Fellows, 649
Gilbert, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Australia and New Zealand
by, 581
Ginguené, Peter Lewis, Library of, 442, 455
Glass, Slade Collection of Ancient, 708 _seqq._
Goade, Dr., 193
Godolphin, Sydney, Earl of Godolphin, 211
Goldsmith, Oliver, 425
Gondomar, Diego de Sarmiento, Count of, Intercourse of Sir R. Cotton
with, 68, 80, 81, 95, 102, 146
Gorges, Ferdinando, 187
Gosse, P. H., Zoological Collections made in Jamaica by, 581
Goudot, M., Zoological Collections made in Columbia by, 581
Gough, Richard, 529
Gould, John, Zoological Collections made in Australia and in New
Zealand by, 381
Graves, Captain, 651
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