2G4: MiscellnneoHs. 



Fishing Taclcle, and I other siiip;uliir Inventions of the Xntivcs of 

 Otrthdte, Ntvj Zeahind, \ and other new discovered Islands in the 

 South Seas ; A Variety of | Maho.i,Mny and other Cabinets, adapted 

 for containing Subjects in [ Natural History : a large llange of 

 elegant Mahogany Cases of the best | Jamaica Wood, nine Feet 

 high, glazed with large Panes, and might | easily be altered to 

 Library Cases ; a Mahogany Table, near thirty | Feet long, with 

 large Show Glasses on the Top, and near 300 Drawers | beneath, 

 all glazed ; a llange of ilahogany Shelves with Cabinets, | con- 

 taining 126 Drawers, glazed ; a perpetual Motion, an artificial 

 Hail I Storm ; sundry Books in Natural History, a Set of six 

 Columns four- [ teen Feet high, and a great Number of other 

 Articles. | Which will be sold by Auction, | By Ur.PATEliSON, \ 

 On the Premises, | No. 70. St. Martians Lane, opposite Slawjlder's \ 

 Coffee House, | (By Order of the Assignees,) | On Mondaij, April b, 

 1779, and the Twenty-nine | following Days, | To be viewed on 

 Mondaij, March the 29th, and to the | Time of Sale, | Catalogues 

 may be had (Price One Shilling), at | Mr. Patersons, No. 6 King- 

 Street, Covent Garden ; | and at the Museum aforesaid. | 



The Catalogue is printed in quarto (not octavo, as invariably 

 stated), measures 9 x 5| inches,- has a Titlepage with " conditions 

 of sale" on back, and pp. 1-16S. The sale occupied the thirty-six 

 days for which it was catalogued (the titlepage being incorrect on 

 this point), the last day taking books, of which Humphrey had a 

 poor lot, the only rarities being seven copies of his own ' Conchologie,' 

 of which Allan seems to have purchased one. As this book is stated 

 in the ' Mus. Humf.' itself to be '' Humphrey's Conchologie," it con- 

 firms the opinion expressed in my 'Index Animaliura,' 1902, p. xxx, 

 that Humphrey, and not E. M. Da Costa, was the author of the 

 bjok. 



The Council of the Hancock Museum has generously agreed to 

 an exchange with me for this tract, feeling, with me, that so 

 interesting a curiosity should be in a more accessible position. I 

 have therefore arranged to deposit the 'Mus. Humf.' in the General 

 Library of the British Museum (Natural History), where it can be 

 seen by anyone interested. 



Wltere are the Types? 



Gentlemen, — May I ask if any of your readers can kindly give 

 me information as to where may be found tlie types of S. P. Pratt 

 (Kelloway Ammonites from Christian Malford) and Young and 

 Bird (Lias fossils in * (xeol. of Yorkshire')? The information is 

 required for the purposes of the • Pabaeontologia Universalis.' 



S. S. BUCKMAN. 

 "Westliekl, Thame, Oxou. 



