102 KALMS ENGLAND. 



very many tomes of an herbarium, among which we par- 

 ticularly examined those which Sir Hans Sloane himself 

 had collected in Jamaica [T. I. p. 434] ; 336 volumes of 

 dried plants in Royal folio ; on each leaf there were as 

 many plants stuck on as there was room for. 



[T. I. p. 377.] Sir Hans Sloane's Library, which pro- 

 bably has few like it among private collections gathered 

 together by one single man, and consists of somewhat 

 more than 48,000 volumes, all bound in superb bindings. 



[T. I. p. 427.J The 26th May, 1748. 



To-day I accompanied some gentlemen to Sir Hans 

 Sloane's to see once more his Natural Samling, and in 

 particular to get to make more exact observations on the 

 Cobra di Capello, Serpent, which has, as it were, glass 

 eyes on the neck, hvilken pa nacken har likasom 



glas Ogon, [whence the French name " Le Serpent a 



lunettes," " Spectacle Snake " ; also " Naja," Naia 

 Tripudians (Merv.) M. Morin Reptiles et Poissons, p. 68, 

 illustrated on p. 69 and Frontispiece], and to get to 

 count its scuta abdominalia and squamas caudales, 

 abdominal plates and tail scales, about which Linnceus 

 asked me in a letter. . . . [T. I. p. 437]. The 

 snake, Cobra di Capello, had 183 scuta abdominalia and 

 squamas Caudales. If the small squamae, which lie under 

 the chin, parallel with the scuta abdominalia, are also 

 reckoned, then there are two more. It was difficult enough 

 to count them, because the snake lay in spiritu vini in a 

 sealed glass bottle. 



[T. I. p. 427. J To describe all this great collec- 

 tion in detail, omstandeligen, would fill several 

 Folianter : for anyone who has not himself seen 

 this collection would probably have very great diffi- 

 culty in picturing to himself that it is so large. 

 We had to-day the advantage that Sir Hans Sloane 



