INTRODUCTION 
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accepted without hesitation. Before the expira¬ 
tion of that year an Act was passed, which ordered 
the payment of the stipulated sum to his Execu¬ 
tors and vested the property of the Museum in 
Trustees for the use of the Public.* 
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* From a schedule which was handed about at the time of the 
purchase, we collect the following totals of the contents of this 
Museum ; hut as this document is by no means authentic, we must 
request our readers to consider these numbers rather as approxi¬ 
mations than as accurate enumerations. 
Library of printed books and manuscripts, including bocks 
of prints and drawings. Vofs. 50,000 
Coins and medals............. 23,000 
Antique idols, utensils, &c... 1,125 
Cameos, intaglios, seals, &c..,. ... 1,500 
Vessels and utensils of agate, jasper, &c.. 542 
Anatomical preparations of human bodies, parts of mum¬ 
mies, calculi, &c.,..... 7 56 
Quadrupeds and their parts....... 8,185 
Birds and their parts, eggs and nests... 1,172 
Fishes and their parts....... . 1,555 
Amphibia... 521 
Crustacea. . . 1,435 
Shells, echini, entroehi..... 5,845 
Insects........ 5,394 
Corals,spunges, zoophytes.... 1,421 
Stones, ores, bitumens, salts, &c.. .. .. 9,942 
Volumes of dried plants...... 334 
Mathematical Instruments .. 55 
Miscellaneous artificial curiosities. 2,Ons 
MS. catalogues of the whole Museum, 38 vols. fol. and 8 quarto* 
