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school, Bristol, Grays-inn, Eaton college, Grasham college, Shrewsbury, Lin- 

 coln's-inn, Sion college, Manchester library, with directions to the MSS. in the 

 Herald's office, and to the records in the Tower. The MSS. of the nobility, 

 are those of the Earl of Carlisle, 'the Earl of Denbigh, the Lord Viscount 

 Longuevile, the Earl of Peterborough, the Earl of Derby, the Lord Bishop of 

 Norwich, and the Earl of Kent. 



The largest catalogues of the gentry, are those of Sir William Glynne, Dr. 

 Plot, Sir Thomas WagstatFe, Mr. Leneve, Dr. Francis Bernard, Mr. Evelyn, 

 Mr. Seller, Sir John Hoby, Dr. Johnston, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Onsley, Mr. 

 Chetwynd, Dr. Tyson, Dr. Browne, Sir Henry St. George, Dr. Gale, Mr. 

 Theyer, Mr. Pepys, Mr. Worsley, Sir Edward Norwich, Sir Henry Langley, 

 Mr. Jones, Dr. Todd, Dr. Edward Bernard, which last are now all in the Bod- 

 leian library ; Mr. Thoresby, Mr. Burscough, Mr. Brotherton, Dr. Sloane, Mr. 

 Cousin, Sir George Wheeler, which he has since generously given to Lincoln 

 college; Mr. Farmer, and Sir Symonds D'Ewes. Besides which, and others 

 of less note, here is exhibited a catalogue of the MSS. in his Majesty's library 

 at St. James's, and one foreign catalogue, which is that of Isaac Vossius, 

 whose MSS. are now at Leyden in Holland. The books being good ones, and 

 the catalogue being hitherto often inquired for, I am well satisfied to see it here, 

 though the books were suffered to go out of the kingdom. This part likewise 

 has its index. 



The last part of the book, that is, the second part of the second tome, 

 gives the catalogues of Ireland, viz. of the Earl of Clarendon, who, though 

 he be an English peer, yet the books are Irish, and were brought from Ireland. 

 The next is that of the college of Dublin, then that of the Lord Archbishop 

 of Dublin, with the titles of those oriental MSS. which he lately bought out 

 of the library of Golius, and lastly of Dr. Madden ; which last part, as all the 

 rest, has its particular index ; and by this means each part may be bound up by 

 itself, and interleaved. 



Lastly, as MSS. are usually valued either for the antiquity, the language 

 they are written in, their beauty, or for their rarity ; so on all these accounts 

 our English libraries, and consequently these catalogues, are of very consider- 

 able value. 



A further' Account of the Contents of the China Cabinet mentioned in last Ninnh. 

 By Ham Sloane, M. D. N° 247, p. 461. 



One figure represents what is commonly but falsely called in India, the Tar- 

 tarian lamb. This was more than a foot long, as thick as one's wrist, having 

 several protuberances, and towards the end had some foot stalks, about 3 or 4 



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