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Shells tends more immediately to illuftrate the various genera, and their mode of growth. 

 The natural foffils, viz. ores, earths, ftones, &c. have likewife been collected with a 

 view to his own particular obfervation. The extraneous foffils are extenfive, and are 

 intended principally to particularize what fpecies of animals and fhells are fuppofed to 

 be now extinct. The artificial curiofities are numerous, and in their kind are as 

 fingular as they are valuable. But the attention is forcibly attracted by the elaborate 

 collection of preparations of vegetables, and parts of alrnoft every known animal, to 

 demonftrate their comparative anatomy and affinities to each other, claiTed according to 

 Mr. Hunter's own ideas on this fubjecl, and intended for an univerfal fyftem of the animal 

 ceconomy and phyfiology. Thefe, with the valuable treafure of ufeful and interefting 

 directions to elucidate the difeafes of the human body, confpire to excite our admiration 

 of his genius and indefatigable induftry in the purfuit of a fcience in which he ftands 

 unrivalled in this, and perhaps in any other country. 



For elegance and brilliancy in effect perhaps no mufeum exceeds that of George 

 Keate, Efq; * in which all the varieties in fhells, corallines, gems, and minerals, with a 

 rich affortment of every fpecies of femi-tranfparent or opake foffil bodies, and fpecimens 

 of the moft exquilite and coftly works of art, are, by the unrivalled tafte of the poffeffor, 

 and happy fkill of the architect, moil effectually and beautifully difplayed. 



A select cabinet of Shells, and other marine fubftances, is in the poffeffion of 

 Martyn Fonnereau, Efq.-f- Alike interefting are his feveral other collections of 

 minerals, agates, and marbles ; prefenting in the different branches fpecimens of extreme 

 beauty and rarity, as well Englifh as foreign. 



If acutenefs of judgment in the felection of fpecimens, joined to a critical knowledge 

 in the arrangement of Shells, fuffice to conftitute a Conchoiogift, John Smith Budgen, 

 Efq; £ has every pretenfion ; confequently his collection is not only very extenfive, 

 but admirable in its fuite, and fhews what genius accompanied with induftry may 

 accompliih. 



The moft fcrupulous attention to rarity and perfection in the choice of thefe fubjects 

 has been ftrictly regarded by Mr. Philip Hurlock§. If to this we add, that his 



* Of Charlotte-Street, Bloomfbury. 

 X Of the County of Surrey. 



f Of Charlotte-Street, Bloomfbury. 

 § St. Paul's Church- Yard. 



judgment 



