74 CHAPTER 32. 
the fecond edition of the Synopjis, and con-- 
tinued by Dillenius in the third. 
Dr. Sloan E began early to form a mir- 
feum, and it was, by the collediions made 
in his voyage, become confiderable 3 but the 
sera of its celebrity was not till 1702, when 
it received the augmentation of Mr. Cour- 
ten's valuable ftores. United by fimilar 
tafte. Dr. Sloane had formed, with this 
gentleman, an early and ftridl friendfhip ; 
and a perpetual interchange of communi- 
cations, and good offices, had fubfifted be- 
tv/een them ; of which SirHa/7s himfelf bears 
public teftimony in his writings. It is not 
poffihle, at this time, to afcertain the ex- 
tent of Mr. Courten's coiledion ; but it 
is fufficiently certain that it was very ample : 
the acquifition of it added new ardour and 
diligence to our naturalift, in the augment- 
ation of it. He has himfelf exhibited a ge- 
neral ftatement of the contents of his mu- 
feum, twenty-two years after its enlarge- 
ment by the above-mentioned collection. 
By this it appears, that the fubjedls of na- 
tural hiftory alone, exclufive of two hundred 
volumes of preferved plants, amounted to 
more 
