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
Gray, John Edward, F.R.S., Public Services of, 577 _seqq._;
his _Illustrations of Indian Zoology_, _ib._;
Catalogues and Synopses of the Natural History Collections originated
by, 578;
Evidence on the comparative state of those Collections in 1836 and in
1849, 579 _seqq._
Greek and Roman Marbles, History of the Collection of, 372 _seqq._
Greek Coins, Collection of, 412, 705
Greek Manuscripts, Researches in the 17th century for the Collection
of, 199 _seqq._
Greek Marbles, Early Researches in the Levant for the acquisition of,
189 _seqq._
Gregg, William, 210
Grenville, Thomas, Notices of the Political Life of, 670 _seqq._;
on his retirement from politics he devotes himself to literary and
social pursuits, and collects his Library, 677 _seqq._;
its character, 678, 681;
his Conversation with Sir A. Panizzi as to its destination, 679
Grenville, Richard, Marquess of Buckingham, 674 _seqq._
Greville, Charles, 356, 459
Grey, Lady Jane, 113, 477
Grey, Henry, Earl of Kent, 254
Grey, Henry, Duke of Kent, 446
Grey, Lady Anna Sophia, 446
Grey, Thomas, Earl of Stamford, 241
Gronovius, John Frederick, Herbarium of, 509
Grosley, Peter John, Account of the early condition and regulations of
the British Museum by, 337
Grotefend, George Frederick, 641
Guenther, Dr., 603
Guiscard, Anthony de, 217
H.
Haeberlein Fossils, 40
Halicarnassian Marbles, 663 _seqq._
Haller von Hallerstein, Charles, 397
Halley, Edmund, 276
Hamilton, Gavin, 372, 374, 376, 406
Hamilton, Sir William, Notices of the Diplomatic Career, the scientific
researches, the archæological and artistic Collections of, 347–360;
his promotion of the explorations of Lord Elgin, 382;
he brings to England the Barberini or Portland Vase, 459
Hamilton, Lady, 356, 358
Hamilton, William Richard, 399
Hampden, John, 300
Hanbury, William, 137, 139
Hancarville, J. B. d’, 352
Harcourt, Simon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, 225
Hardiman, John, 456
Harding Prints and Drawings, 36
Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus, 529
Hardwicke, Major-General, Bequest of Zoological Collections by, 580
Hargrave, Francis, Library of, 435
Harley, Sir Edward, 204, 234
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