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ROOM 
II.—VIII. 
SECOND ROOM; 
THIRD ROOM; 
FOURTH ROOM. 
These apartments are devoted to Sir Joseph Banks’s, 
together with Sir Hans Sloane’s and other collections 
of dried plants. The second, also, holds temporarily 
Mr. William Smith’s collection of English fossils ar¬ 
ranged according to the strata in which they are found. 
FIFTH ROOM; 
SIXTH ROOM; 
SEVENTH ROOM. 
These apartments are at present occupied by Sir 
Joseph Banks’s Library. 
In the centre of the Sixth Room the general collec¬ 
tion of insects is preserved in cabinets. 
In the Seventh Room, near the third window hang 
three specimens of minute writing, forming the portraits 
of Queen Anne, Prince George of Denmark, and the 
Duke of Gloucester their son, with a portrait of Sir 
Isaac Newton in has relief. 
Near the door of entrance from the sixth room hangs 
an original deed in Latin, written on papyrus, being a 
conveyance of some land to a monastery ; dated Raven¬ 
na, A° 572, bought at the sale of the Pinelli library. 
And opposite to it is a large specimen of the reed ( Cy - 
perus Papyrus ) of which that kind of paper is made. 
EIGHTH ROOM. 
The Cases No. 1 to 4, are intended to contain a 
collection of impressions from ancient seals, royal, ba¬ 
ronial, monastic, ecclesiastical (not monastic), municipal 
and private, recently made for and presented to the 
Museum by Mr. John Doubleday. The arrangement 
of these impressions is in progress. 
The Vases and other articles upon all the Cases, 
and the contents of Cases 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, with the 
Hindoo 
