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ROOM VII. 
MSS. 
ROOM VIII. 
Nat. Hist. 
CASE 
1 . 
Over the chimney is a full length portrait of 
King George II. by Shackleton: and in the middle 
window stands a table, composed of a variety of 
lavas from Mount Vesuvius; presented Anno 
1764 by the Earl of Exeter. 
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY . 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
MINERALS. 
This room contains, besides the local collec¬ 
tions in the cases round the room, the valuable 
donation of Mr. Cracherode, disposed in two 
tables, nearly in the Linnaean order; and a much 
more extensive series arranged according to Wer¬ 
ner’s system of mineralogy, in 210 drawers, in 
the imposts round the room. 
DERBYSHIRE MINERALS. 
A collection of Derbyshire minerals, formed by 
Mr. White Watson* partly arranged according to 
the succession of strata in which they are found. 
(Shelf 1.) Peat; argillaceous grit; clays. 
(Shelf 2.) Argillaceous ironstones, and ferru¬ 
ginous clays, with and without petrifactions. 
(Shelf 3.) Nodules of argillaceous ironstone : 
«eptaria ; several varieties of coal. 
Shelf 
