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consisting of two hundred and sixteen pages, 

 giving an account of them, entitled, * Auctarium 

 Musaei Balfouriani e Musaeo Sibbaldiano/ Thus 

 this excellent man must be considered as the 

 founder of the museum in the university, and was 

 among the first, if not the very first, after Dr 

 Morison, who published in Scotland an Introduc- 

 tion to Natural History. Under his auspices, Mr 

 James Sutherland, intendant of the physical gar- 

 den, and who has been already mentioned, pub- 

 lished, in 1683, * Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis,' 

 consisting of nearly four hundred pages. From 

 the dedication and preface, it is very plain that 

 he had profited by the plan, which had originally 

 been projected by Drs Balfour and Sibbald. To 

 Sibbald, the University also owe pictures o\ 

 Charles the First and Second, James the Seventh, 

 and Earl of Perth, Drummond of Hawthornden, 

 Sir George Mackenzie, and of the celebrated 

 Buchanan, and the two Bodii." 



The published works of Sir Robert Sibbald 

 are considerable in numbers, and they are varied 

 in their subjects. We subjoin a list of the whole, 

 so far as they can be obtained. The " Scotia 

 Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historioe Naturalis," 

 is more particularly devoted to Natural History 

 It is a thin folio volume, published in Edinburgh 

 in 1684, and is divided into two books, the last 



