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MEMOIR OF 
consisting of two hundred and sixteen pages, 
giving an account of them, entitled, ‘ Auctarium 
Musaei Balfouriani e Musaeo Sibbaldiano.’ Thus 
this excellent man must be considered as the 
founder of the museum in the university, and was 
among the first, if not the very first, after Dr 
Morison, who published in Scotland an Introduc- 
tion to Natural History. Under his auspices, Mr 
James Sutherland, intendant of the physical gar- 
den, and who has been already mentioned, pub- 
lished, in 1683, ‘Hortus Medieus Edinburgensis,’ 
consisting of nearly four hundred pages. From 
the dedication and preface, it is very plain that 
he had profited by the plan, which had originally 
been projected by Drs Balfour and Sibbald. To 
Sibbald, the University also owe pictures o>" 
Charles the First and Second, James the Seventh, 
and Earl of Perth, Drummond of Hawthornden, 
Sir George Mackenzie, and of the celebrated 
Buchanan, and the two Bodii.” 
The published works of Sir Robert Sibbald 
are considerable in numbers, and they are varied 
in their subjects. We subjoin a list of the whole, 
so far as they can be obtained. The “ Scotia 
lllustrata, sive Prodromus Historioa Naturalis,” 
is more particularly devoted to Natural History 
It is a thin folio volume, published in Edinburgh 
in 1684, and is divided into two books, the last 
