Acts and Votes, &;c. • 
tents of the said Petition, recommends it to the 
Consideration of the House. 
Then the said Petition was brought up and 
read, setting forth ; That, by the Munificence of 
Parliament, the Sloanean and Harleian Collec- 
tions of Books, Manuscripts, Records, Coins, 
Medals, Gems, and other rare and valuable Ar- 
ticles of Science, Literature, and Natural His- 
tory, have been heretofore purchased at the 
public Expense, and placed, together with the 
Cottonian Library, under the Care and Ma, 
nagement of the Trustees of the British Mu- 
seum ; and that many large and valuable Bene- 
factions, and Purchases of Books, Coins, Me- 
dals, and Specimens of Natural History, have 
been since added thereto from time to time ; 
and that, among other Acquisitions in Natural 
History, the Petitioners did, in the Year 1798, 
in Addition to the Minerals which made a Part 
of the Sloanean Collection, purchase from 
Charles Hatchett, Esquire, a large and valuable 
Collection of Minerals of every Class, procured 
by him during his Travels in various Parts of 
Europe; since which they have also received, 
by the Will of the Reverend Clayton M or daunt 
Cracherode 9 amongst his other valuable Be- 
quests, a further and very interesting Accession 
to the said Mineralogical Collection ; and that 
