INTRODUCTION. 
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accepted without hesitation. Before the expira- 
tion of that year an Act was passed, which ordered 
the payment of the stipulated sum to his Execu- 
tors, and vested the property of the Museum in 
Trustees for the use of the Public* 
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* From a schedule which was handed about at the time of the 
purchase, we collect the following totals of the contents of this 
Museum ; but as this document is by no means authentic, we must 
request our readers to consider these numbers rather as approxima- 
tions than as accurate enumerations. 
Library of printed books and manuscripts, including books 
of prints and diawings Vols. 50,000 
Coins and medals 23,000 
Antique idols, utensils, &c 1,125 
Cameos, intaglios, seals, &c. 1,500 
Vessels and utensils of agate, jasper, &c 542 
Anatomical pieparations of human bodies, parts of mum- 
mies, calculi, &c ; 756 
Quadrupeds and their parts 8,186 
Birds and their parts, eggs and nests , 1,172 
Fishes and their parts , , 1,555 
Amphibia 521 
Crustacea « f 1,436 
Shells, echini, introchi 5,845 
Insects... 5,394 
Corals, spunges, zoophytes 1,421 
Stones, ores, bitumens, salts, &c. 9,942 
Volumes of dried plants 334 
Mathematical Instruments 55 
Miscellaneous artificial curiosities... 2,093 
MS, catalogues of the whole Museum, 38 vols, fob and 8 quarto. 
