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specimens from the collections made during Cook's voyages. As 

 we gather from Latham's " General Synopsis," quite a number of 

 Sir Joseph Banks' birds must have been given by him to Sir 

 Ashton Lever, instead of to the British Museum. 



Professor Newton's copy is marked with the names of the 

 purchasers and the prices paid for the specimens.* It is a most 

 interesting little volume, showing that the sale was attended by 

 naturalists from various countries, Dr. Leach being the purchaser 

 for the British Museum. From the copy lent me by Professor 

 Newton, we learn that Dr. Adams attended for the Edinburgh 

 Museum, Professor Temminck for Leyden, Mr. Fector for 

 Vienna, while Baron Laugier represented Paris, and Professor 

 Lichtenstein, Berlin. 



The sale commenced on the 29th of April, 1819, and the 

 Catalogue has, as a frontispiece, a sketch of the " Interior of the 

 Great Room of the Egyptian Hall." The following is the title of 

 the " Catalogue " :— 



Part First, | containing the first six days' sale. | 

 Catalogue | {without ivhich no Person can be admitted to the 

 View or Sale) | of the | Roman Gallery, | of | ANTI- 

 QUITIES AND WORKS OF ART, | and the | London 

 Museum of Natural History : | (unquestionably the most 

 extensive and valuable in Europe) | at the | Egyptian 

 Hall in Piccadilly ; | WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY 

 AUCTION, | positively without the least reserve, j by 

 Mr. Bullock, | on the premises, ] on Thursday the 29 th of 

 April, 1819, | And continue every Tuesday, Wednesday, 

 Thursday, and Friday, till the whole | is sold. | To commence 

 precisely at One o'clock. 



The remaining Parts of the Catalogue, about Twenty days, will 

 be published with all possible | speed ; the Articles to be viewed 

 Three Days previous to that on which they are respectively | sold. 



William Bullock was, according to the "Dictionary of 

 National Biography " (vol. vii., p. 2.")6), in 1808 a jeweller and 

 goldsmith in Liverpool, and it was in this town that his Museum 

 was originally started. In the Zoological .Library in the Natural 

 History Museum is a small octavo tract, being the seventh 



* Since Professor Newton drew my attention to the importance of this 

 "Sale-Catalogue" and lent me his copy, on which I have founded my 

 notes, I have discovered another copy oi the Bame Catalogue among the 



Tracts in the Natural History Museum. It is practically identical with 

 Professor Newton's volume, but differs ia a few minor details. 



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