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a Christian the second. It is enough for the illus- 
trious Ray that he united these characters in him- 
self; nor should we, by investing him with fictitious 
qualifications, detract from the scientific fame of 
him who was his friend on earth, and who, we may 
humbly hope, is his companion in heaven! 
(14.) From looking to the brightness cast upon 
the horizon of science by such names as Lister, Wil- 
lughby, and Ray, we must now bestow a hasty 
glance on a few humbler men, who about this time 
aided, in different ways, the cause of natural history. 
Dr. Grew, better known as a botanist than as a 
zoologist, published, in folio*, and at the expense 
of the Royal Society, an account of the rarities in 
their museum; of which not a wreck is now left. 
It is worth remarking that in this extinet museum 
was the leg of a Dodo {mentioned at p.60.): can 
this be the one now in the British Museum? or 
was it the companion? Grew’s catalogue is a poor 
performance, although interesting to show how 
greatly natural history was at one time cultivated 
by the Royal Society. About this time, indeed, 
museums and collections were formed with much 
assiduity : the two most remarkable were those of 
Pettiver, a most zealous and indefatigable collector 
in all departments of nature; and whose museum 
was considered so valuable by his great but friendly 
rival, Sir Hans Sloane, that the latter eventually 
purchased it for the sum of 40007.  Pettiver was 

* Museum Regalis Societatis, or a Catalogue and Descrip- 
tion of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the 
Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham College, made by 
N. Grew, M.D. London, 1681. 
