100 KALM S ENGLAND. 



SIR HANS SLOANE'S MUSEUM. 



Kalm visited this on the 28th April and the 26th May. 

 The April account, pp. 376-7, is an abstract of the May 

 account which fills 10 pp. 427-38. I shall give the April 

 account as it stands with selections from the May. [J. L.J 



[T. I. p. 376. J The 28th April, 1748. 

 Sir Hans Shane's Natural Samling. 



In the morning I went in company with Mr. Warner, 

 Captain Shierman, and some other English gentlemen 

 up to Chelsea where we spent some time in looking at 

 Chelsea Garden, but afterwards went to see Sir Hans 

 Sloane's collections, in all three Natural Kingdoms, 

 Antiquities, Anatomy, and many Curiosities. 



We saw here a great collection of all kinds of stones, 

 stenar, partly polished, slipade, partly such as still 

 lay in their matrix as they are found in nature. We 

 saw all sorts of vessels, karil, Tea- cups, T/ie'g-kappar, 

 saucers, skalar, snuff-boxes, dosor, caskets, askar, spoons, 

 skedar, ladles, slefvar, and other small instruments, all 

 manufactured out of Agates and Jaspis, &c. ; a number 

 of different kinds of pearls, several learned men's Contre- 

 faits, among which we particularly devoted ourselves to 

 the study and admiration of the great Botanicus and 

 [T. I. p. 432] Natural Historicus, John Ray. 



Mr. John Ray's Contrefait, is the only one" of him 

 that exists in England. It is very like that which is 

 found in his "Wisdom of God in the Creation," on 

 the title-page [T. I. p. 376. J A very large collection of 

 insects from all parts of the world, all of which were now 

 preserved in four-sided boxes, lador, with clear glass 

 glued on both over and under, so that one could see them 

 quite well, but these boxes or cases were also so well 

 stuck together and so [T. I. p. 377] tight that no worms 



