THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 333 
document, published in a work* where no one 
would seek for it, regarding this famous collection, 
which we shall here insert. 
An Account of the Names and Numbers of the several 
Species of Things contained in the Museum of Sir 
Hans Sloane, Bart., and which, since his Death, 
are placed for the Use of the Public in the British 
Museum. 
The Library, including books of drawings, 
manuscripts, and prints, amounting to 
about - - - volumes 50,000 
Medals and coins, ancient and modern - - 23,000 
Cameos and intaglios, about -~— - a peaey 2. 
Seals, &c. - - - . 268 
Vessels, &c. of agate, jasper, &c. - - 542 
Antiquities - - - - « bshae 
Precious stones, agates, jaspers, &c. - - 2,256 
Metals, minerals, ores, &c. a - 92,725 
Crystals, spars, &c. - : - 1,864 
Fossils, flints, stones, &c. - eae 
Earths, sands, salts, &e. - - - 1,035 
Bitumens, sulphurs, ambers, &c. - - 399 
Tales, mica, &c. - - - - 388 
* Corals, sponges, &c. -  - - - 1,421 
* Testacea or shells . - - - 5,843 
* Echini, Echinites, &c. - - - 659 
* Asterie, Trochi, Entrochi, &c.  - - P41 
* Crustacex, crabs, lobsters, &c. - - 363 

* Edwards's Gleanings of Natural History, vol. i. p. 7- 
Pref. 
