Plan of a Mufeumfor Scientific Inquiry. [Aug. 1, 



CHEMISTRY, 



with all the arts to which it lends its aid, 

 will have place wherever it Ihall be found 

 convenient to conftrutt a laboratory, with 

 adjoining apartments for exhibiting ma- 

 chine;'y employed in feveral arts. 



An arranged collect ion of the artificial 

 produftions of chemiilry for the various 

 piu-pofes of medicine and the arts might 

 have its appropriate place. 



A SALOON OF TASTE 



might be furnifhcd with models of the 

 moll remarkable ancient buildings, or 

 parts of fuch buildings, illuftrative of dif- 

 ferent modes and orders of architecture. 



1. Models of ancient Egyptian, from 

 the Thehaid. 



2. Of litrufcan, or Doric, from Psf- 

 tum. 



3. Of the Palmyrene. 



4. Of the Grecian orders, from the 

 fineil remains in Greece or Italy. 



5. Of the Latin orders. Tul'can, of 

 which there are no antique remains, and 

 Compofite, from the Baths of Dioclefian. 



6. Saxon, Norman, and Gothic. 

 Tablets might refer to the modds, and 



ftate the proportions, Cafts of a few of 

 the finelt ftatues of antiquity, with fmii- 

 lar tablets of reference, and pi6tures of 

 fe\eral fchool?, might be here exhibited, 

 with a few fpecimens of the moll remark- 

 able gems and vafes. 



£very thing fliould be arranged with a 

 view to inftru(!'tion, and calculated to ex- 

 cite rather than to fatiate curioiity. The 

 apparatus contained in fuch prell'es and 

 apartments would ofcourfe be applicable 

 to the ufe of lecturers in the I'everal 

 branches of fcience. 



A confiderable portion of fuch a nuife- 

 um mud be dedicated to the dapartment 

 of natural hiftory. An important place 

 flionld be allotted to a judicious felettion 

 of the moft intcrcfting objc6ts of 



COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 



Thefe might be feparately exhibited, or 

 placed in prefles in rooms dedicated to 

 each branch of zoologj'. 



ZOOLOGY, 

 CLASS I. MAMMALIA, 



Includes all animals that fuckle their 

 young. The heart has two ventricles and 

 two auricles ; the blood is re i and warm j 

 the animals are viviparous. 



DIVISION I. DIGITATED OR CLAWED. 



Order 1. Primates. Fore-teeth 4 ; 

 canine fmgle. Genera, man, ape, ma- 

 cauco, bnt. 



Order 2. Bruta. Fore-teeth or inci- 

 fors none. Genera, elephant, wahus, 

 iloth, ant-eater, maniSj armadillo. 



Order 3. Ferae. Fore-teeth 2, 6, 10 ; 

 conical ; one canine on each fide. Ge- 

 nera, feal, dog (including the wolf and 

 fox), cat (including the lion and tiger), cir 

 vet, weafel, bear, opoflum, mole, fhrew, 

 hedgehog. 



Order 1. Glires. Fore-teeth 2 ; ca- 

 nine none. Genera, porcupine, hare, 

 beaver, rat, fquirrel. 



DIVISION II. HOOFED. 



Order 5. Pecora. Fore-teeth none 

 above. Genera, camel, muflc, deer, goat, 

 flieep, ox. 



Order 6. Bellua;. Fore-teeth above 

 and below. Genera, hbrfe, hippopota- 

 mu:-, hog, rhinoceros. 



DIVISION III. WITHOUT HOOFS OK CLAWS, 



Order 7. Cete. Genera, narwal, 

 ^^ hale, cachalot, dolphin. 



CLASS II. AVES. 



Latham's Arrangement. Oviparous. 

 Heart and blood as in the former clafs. 



DIVISION I. LAND-BIRDS. 



Order 1. Accipitres. Rapacious. 



2. Picw. Pies. 



3. Pafleres. Sparrow-tribes. 



4. Columbae. Pigeon do. 



5. Gailins. Cock do. 



6. Strutliiones. Oftrich do. 



DIVISION II. WATER-FOWL. 



7. Grallie. Wadeis. Cloven-footed,^ 



8. Anfercs Gralla\ Pinna ed feet. 



9. Anferes. Web-footed. 



In all 96 genera. 



class III. AMPHIBIA. 



Heart with one ventricle and one au- 

 ricle. The blood cold and red. They 

 refpire at will with the lungs. No mo- 

 lares or grinders. 



Order 1. Chiefly inhabit the land, but 

 occafionallj' tlie water. 



2. Chieiiy the water, but occafionally 

 the land. 



Otters, bca\'ers, rats, and phocje, arc 

 darted with mammalia. 



Frogs, crocodiles, lizards, eels, fer- 

 pents, and fea-tortoifcs, belong to this 

 clafr. See Shaw's Zoology for their ar- 

 rangement. 



PISCES. 



Order 1. Nantes. Gills and lungs. 

 Rays of tlie iins cartilaginous. 



2. Apodes. No ventral fins. 



o. Jugulares. Ventral tins placed be- 

 fore the pectoral ones. 



4. Thoracici. \^entral fins under the 

 thorax. 



5. Abdominales. Ventral fins in the 

 abdomen behind the thorax. 



Sixty-one genera. Heart one ventricle 

 and one auricle : blood cold and red. 

 They breathe by gills. 



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