CoJXetbiuilier, 
&c+ 
Thomas Hollis, 
Esq, 
XXVIII INTRODUCTION* 
Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Ma¬ 
nufactures, the Universities of Oxford, Cam¬ 
bridge, and Leyden, the Imperial Academy of 
Brussels, the Royal Academy of Lisbon, the Col¬ 
leges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, 
the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh, and se¬ 
veral other learned bodies, whose donations have 
been no less frequent than valuable. 
Among the multitude of private individuals, 
not members of the Trust, who have enriched 
these collections, and whose names and dona¬ 
tions are carefully registered in a book kept for the 
purpose, we must here select, as being foremost 
in their liberality, three gentlemen of the same 
family, viz. Colonel William, Mr. Pitt, and Mr. 
Smart Lethiullier, who, so early as the year 1756 
began their benefactions, and continued them for 
several years, thereby materially increasing the 
collection of Egypiian Antiquities, to which they 
added two mummies, and a great number of idols,, 
utensils, and other implements. 
The name of Thomas Hollis, of Corscombe, 
in Dorsetshire, Esq. appears perhaps more fre¬ 
quently than any other in the list of Benefactors; 
he having, from the year 1756, to the day of his 
death in 1774, been unremitted in his contri¬ 
butions, 
