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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- 

 lughbj', 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 extinct 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 4000/. 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. 



