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N the original charter of the Royal Society, it was provided 
that the collections of the Society should be deposited, if 
belonging to Natural History, in the Museum of the Univer- 
sity, and if to Antiquities, in the Library of the Faculty of Ad- 
. vocates. Much inconvenience, however, could hardly fail to 
result from this arrangement, especially wh€n the researches 
of the Society, having, as of late, been much turned to Geolo- 
gy, it became an object to collect together the specimens 
which served to illustrate the subjects under discussion, and to 
have them at hand when reference should be necessary. 
‘Iw a Museum arranged with .a view to public lectures, 
(like that of the University), such an order as was required for 
this purpose could not easily be preserved; the Professor of 
Natural History must feel himself interrupted by the exami- 
nations which the Mentbers of the Royal Society might wish 
Vou. VI.—P. II. a to 
