158 Dr. M atom's and Mr. Rackett's 



Amboyna, his opportunities of investigating the natural produc- 

 tions of those shores were extensive. He was chaplain to the 

 Dutch settlement in that island, and in his five parts of the His- 

 tory of the East Indies, he was at the pains of writing every thing- 

 he knew relative to the geography, civil history, zoology, &c. of 

 a part of the world from which his countrymen had drawn such 



various riches. 



SLOANE. 



a name as familiar as it is dear to naturalists, has a place in our 

 list correspondent to the date of the 2d volume of his Voyage, 

 viz. 1725. The preface to this volume assigns the reasons for the 

 lono' interval that occurred between the publication of it and the 

 first, and these reasons are too much connected with our imme- 

 diate subject not to deserve mention here. Sir Hans was princi- 

 pally occupied by the care, arrangement, and description of his 

 museum, which in 170*2 received the augmentation of Mr. Cour- 

 tein's valuable stores, and in 1718 that of Petiver's. — In the 

 collection of plates belonging to the 2d volume of the Voyage 

 there are two (viz. 240 and 241) that contain figures of shells, with 

 Latin descriptions over each species; some taken from Lister. 

 Our illustrious author being the first person who visited Jamaica 

 and others of the \Vest India islands, purely with a view to the ex- 

 tension of science, his plates and descriptions, of course, relate 

 to many species not before known. 



KUNDMAN, 



a great collector of natural curiosities, is placed by De Bergen 

 among the systematical writers; but his '• PromptUarhim" has the 

 arrangement rather of a catalogue than of a scientific treatise, 

 and it seems to be founded upon Luonanni's rather than to be a 

 system of his own. There is a paper of this collector in the Act. 



Acad. 



