86 TRAVELS THROUGH 



the Lilreria Mtgliabecbi ; and a young man, 

 at Florence, working under Mr. Fontanas direc- 

 tion, imitates in wax his anatomical preparations 

 of the human body, in a higher degree of perfec- 

 tion than I few them any where before. He 

 mixes white wax with feveral forts of white gums, 

 to prevent its melting and cracking. All is co- 

 loured after nature, and then properly varnifhed. 

 Some parts of the head, the eye, the ears, and the 

 tongue, are already fixed on wooden tables, and 

 highly and properly finimed for illufion. The fu- 

 ture collection of natural curiofities is to confift of^ 



1. The cabinet of Rumphius* 



2. Van Sproeckel ; and 



3. The curiofities, which before have been kept' 

 in the gallery. 



In the laft are large pieces of foffil calcined 

 ivory, dug out near the Lago di frafimene, or di 

 Perugia. 



The fecond belonged to Van Spreeckel, a drug- 

 gift at Leghorn; and was, when he died, bought 

 by the Grand Duke for two thoufand pezze Tof- 

 cane* It confifts of minerals, petrifactions, corals* 

 marine plants, zoophytes, Ihells, earths, and a 

 materia medica. A {tone belonging to this col- 

 lection is, according to a ticket fixed to it, given 

 out for a petrified fpunge, found at Luciano, in 

 Tufcany. The form, the appearance, and the 



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