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
Napier of Magdala, Lord, Efforts for the collection of Abyssinian MSS.
and Antiquities during the late Campaign made by, 703 _seqq._
Napoleon and the Institute of Cairo, 366;
his plans for the acquisition of the Marbles of the Parthenon, 384
Natural History Collections, Propositions which have been made for the
removal of the, 513, 594 _seqq._, 744 _seqq._
_Natural History of Jamaica_, 289 _seqq._
Nelson, Horatio, Lord Nelson, 356, 359, 361
Neville, Sir Henry, 55
Newton, Adam, 157
Newton, Charles Thomas, Researches for Antiquities at Halicarnassus,
Branchidæ, Cnidus, &c., of, 663 _seqq._;
his labours in respect to the Woodhouse Collection, 704
Newton, Sir Isaac, 499
Nice, Daniel, Museum of, 195
Nicolas, Sir Harris, 535, 541
Nimeguen, Discovery of Ancient Bronzes near, 409
Nimroud, Excavations of Mr. Layard and his Successors at, 629 _seqq._
Nitrian Monasteries, Account of the successive researches for MSS. in
the Libraries of the, 609 _seqq._
Norgate, Edward, 195
Northampton, Henry, Earl of. _See_ HOWARD
O.
Oldisworth, William, 124
Onslow, Arthur, 306
Orsini, Flavio, MSS. of, 457
Osborne, Sir John, 240
Oswald, James, 673
Ouseley, Sir Gore, 461, 509
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 67, 81, 82, 83
Owen, Admiral Sir Edward, 651
Owen, Richard, on the growth and progress of the Zoological
Collections, 602, 694;
on the state, classification, and requirements of the Collection of
Minerals, 606.
P.
Pacho, Mr., negotiates the transfer from the Monastery of St. Mary
Deipara of a residuary Collection of Syrian MSS. previously
withheld, 618
Paiafa, Xanthian tomb of, 652, 658
Palmer, Sir Geoffrey, 263
Pandarus, Lycian Marbles illustrative of the Legend of, 654
Panizzi, Sir Antonio, 485, 523, 543, 546, 552, 558, 559, 560, 563, 567,
570, 704;
his influence on the bequest of the Grenville Library, 678 _seqq._;
his designs and labours for the construction of the New Reading-Room,
586 _seqq._;
his account of the choice books in the Grenville Collection, 681
_seqq._;
testimony borne in Parliament in 1866 to his public services, 583
Papin, Dionysius, 276
Paramythia (in Epirus), Discovery of ancient Bronzes at, 407
Paris and London Museums compared, 579, 581
Parker, George, Earl of Macclesfield, 299, 304
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, 58
Parry, John Humffreys, 568
Paynell, Robert, 241
Pelham, Henry, 307, 309
Pell, John, 427
Pennant, Thomas, 496
Percy, Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, 610
Perez, Anthony, 457
Persepolitan Marbles, 461
Persian MSS., 456, 459
Peters, Hugh, 168
Petiver, James, 290
Pett, Phineas, 161
Petty, William, 191, 193
Petty-Fitzmaurice, William, Marquess of Lansdowne, 426 _seqq._, 672
Petyt, William, 435
Phigaleia, Marbles of, 396 _seqq._
Phœnician Glass, 708
Piaggi, Anthony, 358
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