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Grollier de Servieres made at Lyon c. 1675 was described by his grandson, 

 Gaspard Grollier de Servieres: Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathematique et de 

 xnecanique (quarto 111 p., pi. fig., Lyon 1719; 2nd ed., Lyon 1733; 3d ed. Paris 

 1751). The objects included in the old collections have often been dispersed, and 

 some of them (sometimes a great many of them) reappear sooner or later in the 

 other larger museums. For example, a vi^ire dravi^ing bench of the Dresden land- 

 gravian collection is now in the Musee de Cluny, Paris; a terrestrial sphere of 1725 

 previously kept in the Gottorp castle of the duke Friedrich III of Schleswig is now 

 in Leningrad; some of the objects originally collected by the archduke Ferdinand 

 of Tirol c. 1581 and kept in Ambras Castle (near Innsbruck) were moved to the 

 Kunsthistorische Sammlungen, Burgring, Vienna; etc. 



Each large museum is a collection of collections. It might be worthwhile even- 

 tually to compile a list of all the historical collections which have thus lost their 

 identity in larger assemblages. This was done for collections of natural history by 

 Charles Da vies Sherhorn: Where is the . . . Collection (148 p., Cambridge 

 1940; Isis 36, 77-78, 229). 



