164 Zoology. 



Minerals is also given, with references to the Table Cases and the 

 Diagram," by which anyone could refer without difficulty to 

 specimens exhibited. 



In this year we find that the Birds have been moved to 

 Room VIII. The classification has been changed, and the wall 

 space seems to have been more ample, as the collection of Birds 

 and nests occupied only thirteen cases, instead of twenty. The 

 collection of Mollusca occupied table-cases on the floor of the 

 room as before, and the Echinoderma, Star-fishes, and some Corals 

 were also in table-cases in this room. 



Boom IX. was filled with Geological and Palseontological 

 specimens, and Boom X. with the " British Oryctognostic 

 Collection," or British simple mineral substances. 



Boom XL is to be " appropriated to British Zoology," and is 

 at present under arrangement. 



The spirit collection and the stuffed Mammals, which were 

 housed in Rooms XI. and XII. in the previous Synopsis, are not 

 mentioned in the edition of 1818. 



The " Synopsis" of 1819 is almost a reprint of the previous 

 edition, and it is curious that in neither of these editions is any 

 reference made to the purchase of Colonel Montagu's British 

 collection, acquired by the Trustees in 1816. It must have been 

 this collection which required Room XI. for its exhibition, and 

 in 1819 we find that the arrangement of the British Birds was 

 completed, and in the cases between the windows were to be 

 placed the spirit-specimens of Reptiles, Fishes, etc. The 

 " Synopsis " by this time has grown in size, as the collections 

 increased and were more minutely described, and the 15th 

 edition had risen to 162 pages instead of 92 pages as in the 

 previous year. 



The 14th edition, of 1818, and the 17th edition, of 1820 

 (printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, Shoe Lane), vary but 

 little from the preceding ones, but the descriptions of the various 

 collections are improved in many instances. Four years later, in 

 1824, the size of the "Synopsis" has been somewhat increased; 

 it was printed by G. Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street. 

 The arrangement, however, is the same, and the Second Room on 

 the Upper Floor, which was empty in 1820, now contains 

 " miscellaneous objects under arrangement." In the Third Room, 

 the Lansdowne Library of Manuscripts, acquired in 1807, is not 

 yet finally arranged, the same announcement haviug been made 

 four years before. The collection of Minerals in the Saloon 



