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fourfcore, that of the Royal Society having 
formed the refohition of withdrawing from 
the buftle of Hfe into retirement at Chelfea, 
In 1741, he removed his Library, and 
Mufeum ; and, on the 12th of May, fixed 
at his new manfion, where, occafionally Vi- 
fited by his friends, and by all men of dif^ 
tind:ion from abroad, he paffed in ferenity, 
and in the conftant exercife of benevolence, 
the laft twelve years of his life, which ter- 
minated Jan. 1 1, 1752, O. S. 
Sir Ha72s Sloan e was tall, and well 
made in his perfon ; eafy, polite, and en- 
gaging in his manners ; fprightly in his 
converfation 5 and obliging to all. To fo- 
reigners he was extremely courteous, and 
ready to fluew and explain his curiofities to 
all who gave him timely notice of theif 
vifit. He kept an open table once a week 
for his learned friends, particularly thofe of 
the Royal Society. In the aggregation of 
his vaft colledlion of books, he is faid to 
have fent his duplicates, either to the Royal 
College of Phyficians, or to the Bodleian 
Library. 
He was governor of almofi: every hofpi- 
