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and IL and the Empress Maria Theresa, from 
Catherine II. Empress of Russia, from Pope Pius 
VI. and their Majesties Charles III. King of Spain, 
and Frederick V. King of Denmark. Among our 
own public offices, it has repeatedly received addi¬ 
tions from the Admiralty, the War Office, the 
Board of Longitude, and the East-IndiaCompanys 
and as to the Literary Societies which regularly send 
in their various periodical and other publications, 
we are bound to make honorable mention of the 
Royal Society*, the Society of Antiquaries, the So¬ 
ciety for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufac¬ 
tures, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and 
Leyden, the Imperial Academy of Brussels, the 
Royal Academy of Lisbon, the Colleges of Physi¬ 
cians of London and Edinburgh, the Faculty of 
Advocates of Edinburgh, and several other learn¬ 
ed 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 
* In the year 1781, this Society presented the greatest part of 
its collection of Natural and Artificial Curiosities to the British 
Museum, 
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