lyB CHAPTER 14. 
Museum Tradescantianum ^ or, a 
''^ Colledion of Rarities preferVed at South 
Lambeth^ near London. By ^ohn Tra- 
DESCANT." 1656, 12^ It contains lifts of 
Ills birds, quadrupeds, lifh, lliells, inledls, 
minerals, fruits, artificial and mifcellaneous 
curioiities, war inllruments, habits, uteniils, 
coins, and medals. Thefe are followed bv 
a catalogue, in Englifh and Latin, of the 
plants of his garden, and a lift of his be- 
nefaftors. The reader may fee a curious 
account of the remains of this garden, drawn 
up in the year 1749, by the late Sir 
William Watson, and printed in the 46tli 
volume of the Philofophical Tranfaftions, 
Prefixed to this volume were the prints of 
both father and fon ^ which, from the cir- 
cumftance of being engraved by Hollar, 
has rendered the book well known to the 
coliedors of prints, by whom moft of the 
copies have been plundered of the impref- 
fions. 
In what year the elder Tradescant 
died, is not certain, but his print above^ 
mentioned reprefents him as a man ad- 
vanced in a2.e. 
The fon inherited the mufeum^ and be- 
queathed 
