Sloane. 79 
\rER had amaffed a greater quantity of the 
produdions of nature, than any man be- 
fore him : but he had not preferved them 
with a care equal to the zeal with which he 
acquired them ; and it demanded extraordi- 
nary dihgi^nce to recover them from the in- 
jury they kad fuftained. It is in the intro- 
dudion to this volume that Sir Hajis gives 
a general inventory of his Library, and Mii- 
feum, as it flood in the year 1725, which 
has been noticed before ; and, by the com- 
parifon of which with later eftimates, it ap- 
pears how greatly he increafed it after that 
time. 
This' fecond volume comprehends five 
hundred pages, and completes the vegetable 
part, and the animal kingdom. The new 
plants are nearly all figured. The plates 
are continued to the number of 274. The 
laft forty belong to the animals, of which, 
fome of all the clafi^es, the Mammalia ex- 
cepted, are here exhibited. 
To the curious botanift, it will be ob- 
fervable, that out of 800 vegetables, de- 
fcribed in thefe volumes, above 100 are 
Ferns ; and that of the others, more than 
5^50 fpecies are of the arborefoent kind, 
Subfequent 
