Sloane, Sir Hans: 1660–1677–1683. Parentage, and early education in Ireland, 274 1678. Studies Chemistry, Botany, and Medicine in London, 275 1683. Goes to France to prosecute his professional and scientific education, _ib._ 1684. Commences his medical career in London, 276 1687. Proceeds to the West Indies as Physician to the Governor-General and to the Fleet, and during that Voyage begins the formation of his Museum, 278 _seqq._ 1689. Returns to England with extensive Collections, 281 1693. Becomes Secretary of the Royal Society, 282 1696. Publishes his first scientific work, _ib._ 1690 to 1727. Resumes the publication of the suspended _Philosophical Transactions_, 284; Discussions between Sloane and Woodward, 286; Enumeration of the honours and distinctions conferred upon him, 287 1708. Publishes the first volume of the _Natural History of Jamaica_, 288 1710–18. Incorporation of the Collections of Plukenet, Petiver, and others, with Sloane’s Museum, 290; his extensive correspondence and charities, 291 1741. Retires to his Manor House at Chelsea, 293 1748. Visit to the Sloane Museum of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 294 1748–9. Last Will and Codicils, 296 _seqq._; declining years and death, 300; Comparative Synoptical Table of his Museum in 1725 and in 1753, 303; its acquisition by Parliament and its public establishment, in 1753, 304 _seqq._ Smirke, Sir Robert, 584 _seqq._ Smirke, Sydney, 587 _seqq._, 596 Smith and Porcher, Explorations at Cyrene of Messrs., 40 Smith, Joseph, 469 Smith, Robert, 59 Smith, Dr. Thomas, 142 Smith, Sir Thomas, 235 Solander, Daniel Charles, 491 Soltikoff Collection, 712 Somers, John, Lord Somers, 139 Somerset, Earl of. _See_ CARR Somerville, Lord, 480 Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles N. S., Researches in the Nitrian Monasteries of, 610 Spanish MSS., 456 Spanish Poetry and Drama, Chorley Collection of, 695 Spano (Canon), of Cagliari, 626 Spencer, Charles, Earl of Sunderland, 239 _Specimens of Ancient Sculpture_, 735 _seqq._, 410 Spelman, Sir Henry, 124 Spratt, T. A. B., Researches in Lycia of, 668 Stephen, James Francis, 38 Strozzi Gems, 691 Stuart, Esme, Duke of Lennox, 71, 182 Suffolk, Thomas, Earl of. _See_ HOWARD Swift, Jonathan, 214 _seqq._ T. Tattam, Henry, Researches in the Nitrian Monasteries of, 613 Theyer, Charles and John, 168 Thomason, George, 331 Thoresby, John, Visit to Courten’s Museum of, 270 Tischendorf’s Visit to the Nitrian Monasteries, 618 Towneley, Charles, Birth and Ancestry of, 369; his Continental Education and Travels, 370; History of his Collection of Ancient Sculpture, 372 _seqq._; his return to Italy and further enlargement of his Gallery, 377 _seqq._; its testamentary disposal, and subsequent acquisition by Parliament, 379