378 Me7norial of George Broivn Goode. 



^20, for transporting four deer from Virginia, including corn and a place 

 made of wood for them to lie in.' 



Not only did the kings make collections, but the keepers of public 

 houses made museums then, as they do now, for the pleasure of their 

 patrons. 



At the middle of the last century there appear to have been several 

 collections of curiosities. 



In Artedi's ichthyological works there are numerous references to 

 places where he had seen American fishes, especially at Spring-garden^ 

 and at the Naggshead, and the White-bear, and the Green Dragon in 

 Stepney, in those days a famous hostelry in London. He speaks also of 

 collections at the houses of Mr. Lillia and Master Saltero's^ in Chelsey 

 and at Stratford, and also in the collection of Seba, in Amsterdam, and 

 in that of Hans vSloane. 



With the exception of ''the monk or A^igel-Jish, Anglis aliis Mcrmaid- 

 Jjsh^'" probably a species of Sq2iatina, which he saw at the Nag's Head, 

 all the fishes in these London collections belonged to the order Plectog- 

 nathi. 



Josselyn, after telling us how a Piscataway colonist had the fortune to 

 kill a Pilhannaw — the king of birds of prey — continues, "How he dis- 

 posed of her I know not, but had he taken her alive and sent her over 

 into England neither Bartholomew nor Sturbridge Fair could have pro- 

 duced such another sight."'' 



Shakespeare's mirror strongl}^ reflects the spirit of the day. When 

 Trinculo, cast ashore upon a lonesome island, catches a glimpse of Cali- 

 ban he exclaims: 



"What have we here, — a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like 

 a fish ; a very ancient and fish -like smell. ... A strange fish! Were I in England 

 now, (as once I was, ) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would 

 give a piece of silver ; there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there 

 makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay 

 out ten to see a dead Indian, "s 



The compilers of the great encyclopedialike works on natural history 

 were quick to pick up the names and descriptions of the American ani- 

 mals which had found their wa)^ to Europe, and man}- such are mentioned 

 in the writings of Gesuer, Clusius and Aldrovandus, Lister, Laet, and 

 Willughby.' 



' Calendar of Colonial Papers, I, 1638, p. 285. 



^ Later known as Vauxhall Gardens, a famous place of resort. 



3 The barber virtuoso, described in Bulwer's Devereux. 



"t John Josselyn, An Account of Two Voyages to New England (made during the 

 years 1638, 1663), Boston, 1865. 



5 The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2. 



^ In Nehemiah Grew's Catalogue and description of the natural and artificial Rari- 

 ties, belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College, Whereunto 

 is subjoined the comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts, London, 1694, are 

 descriptions and figures of every American animal. 



