60 MEMOIR OF DRURY. 



has exceeded the demand, and their value, in a 

 commercial point of view, has therefore heen gradu- 

 ally deteriorating. 



Drury fortunately was not subjected to the pain 

 of witnessing the dispersion of the objects he had 

 laboured with such unwearied zeal to assemble, and 

 from the examination of which he had derived so 

 much rational enjoyment. The collection was not 

 disposed of for upwards of a year after his death, 

 and no purchaser having been found for it in an 

 entire state, it was sold in separate lots by auction. 

 The sale commenced on Thursday, May 23, 1805, 

 lasting for three days, and realising no larger sum 

 than 614 8$. 6d. for the insects, and about 300 

 more for the cabinets and copperplates of the Illus- 

 trations. A few of the more interesting lots, with 

 the prices obtained for them, as well as the names 

 of the purchasers, have been given by Mr. Westwood 

 as an interesting record ; and as such we here sub- 

 join it, from his edition of Drury's work. 



Lot 3. Phalama Aprilina Gra- ) 2 6 7 12 G. Humphrey 



minis, and 22 others j 

 8. Sphinx Convolvuli, and 9 4 l Donovan 



o others . . ) 



46. Papilio Priamus . 1 4 14 6 Gen. Daviea 



64. Claviger, and 5) 6 j w 



others . j 



69. A variety of curious ) 



Spiders, chiefly from > 110 4 4 Donovan 



Georgia . . ) 

 90. Pap Iris, Edusa.HyaleJ 41 Q Hum phrey 



and various . . 3 

 94. Sixteen curious Curcu- > 16 nn Ditto 



iiones . . . 



