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to my last will and testament, as follows : — Whereas 
1 have, in and by my will, given some directions 
about the sale and disposition of my musenm, herein 
more particularly mentioned, now I do hereby revoke 
my will, as for as relates thereto ; and I do direct 
and appoint, concerning the same, in the following 
manner: — Having had from my youth a strong 
inclination to the study of plants, and all other pro- 
ductions of nature ; and having, through the course 
of many years, with great labour and expense, 
gathered together whatever could be procured, either 
in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and 
curious ; and being fully convinced that nothing 
tends more to raise our ideas of the power, wisdom, 
goodness, providence, and other perfections of the 
Deity, or more to the comfort and wellbeing of his 
creatures, than the enlargement of our knowledge in 
the works of nature, I do will and desire, that, for 
tho promoting of these noble ends, tho glory of God 
and good of man, my collection in all its branches 
maybe, if possible, kept and preserved together whole 
and entire, in my manor house, in the parish of 
Chelsea, situate near the Physic Garden, given by 
me to the Company of Apothecaries, for the same 
purposes ; and having great reliance and confidence 
that the Right Honourable, Honourable, and other 
persons hereafter named, will be influenced by the 
same principles, and faithfully and conscientiously 
discharge the trust hereby reposed in them, I do give, 
devise, and bequeath, unto the Right Honourable 
Charles Sloanc Cadogan ; Hans Stanley, Esq. ; 
William Sloane, Esq. ; the Rev. Sloane Elsmere, 
D.D. ; and the Rector of Chelsea for the time being, 
aud certain other persons herein named; all my 
museum at, in, or about my manor house, at Chelsea, 
aforesaid, which consists of too great a variety to be 
particularly described. But I mean all my library 
of hooks, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, aud 
coins; ancient and modern antiquities; seals and 
cameos, intaglios and precious stones, agates, and 
jaspers; vessels of agate, jasper, or crystal; matlie- 
