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is eondudled under fuch wife Regula^- 

 tions, that it is as great in Perfedion 

 as it was in Defign. The Officers 

 are remarked for being a fenfible and 

 learned Set of Men, all equal to the 

 Employment, being well verfed in the 

 Bufinefs of their feveral Departments^ 

 and at all Times willing to gratify the 

 Curiofity of the Inquifitive, with any 

 Information that can be required of 

 them. 



I am not without Hopes that the 

 Time may foon come, when every 

 public-fpirited Colledtor of rare Me- 

 dals, Minerals, Animals, Plants, In- 

 fers, or Stones, and, in fine, of every 

 Thing that either Nature or Art pro- 

 duces, worthy the Obfervation of the 

 Curious, will depofit the Produce of 

 his Labour in this moft valuable Ca« 

 A 4 binet. 



