SIR HANS SLOANE. 
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From that time to the present, it has been 
gradually extended and increased by donations, 
bequests, and purchases — but to trace the pro- 
gress of this increase belongs not to this work. It 
has very recently been newly arranged and con- 
siderably improved in every respect ;* and a very 
copious and interesting account of its present 
state may be obtained from the twenty-eighth 
edition of the “ Synopsis of the Contents of the 
British Museum,” published in 1 834. 
We have already alluded to Sir Hans Sloane’s 
contributions to the Philosophical Transactions. 
We shall enumerate the titles of those papers 
connected with zoology. 
An account of the bird called the Condor of 
Peru, from the relation of Captain Strong, who had 
met with one on the coast of Chili, which measured 
sixteen feet from tip to tip of the wings. Vol. 18. 
* As an evidence of the increasing taste for Natural 
History among the public at large, it may he noticed, 
“ that the number of visiters to the collections of natural 
history in the British Museum amounted, in the year 
1810, to 15,000. The year following, upon the mode of 
admission being changed, the number was doubled ; and 
it has since that time constantly increased, amounting, in 
1818, to above 50,000, and, in 1824, considerably exceed- 
ing 100,000.” — Quarterly Review, vol. 34, p. 158. We 
have no means of ascertaining the numbers since that date, 
but have no doubt they have gone on increasing in at least 
the same proportion. 
