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readily availed themselves of the opportunity* 
and purchased the whole for the sum of < £ > 46o. 
Many additions were afterwards made by pur¬ 
chase and donation: and the aggregate soon 
formed^ not indeed a complete; but as extensive 
and curious a collection as any perhaps at that 
time extant. 
In the year 179^ a favourable opportunity 
presented itself for supplying the deficiency in the 
Mineralogical part of the Repository. Charles 
Hatchett* now of Roehampton; Esq., having, 
during his travels in various parts of Europe, 
formed a large and well chosen collection of Mi¬ 
nerals of every class, which the Trustees learnt 
that he was not unwilling to part with on reason¬ 
able terms, they accordingly made him an offer, 
and the agreement was concluded for the sum of 
; and all that was valuable of the Sloanean 
Collection having been incorporated with this 
ample accession, the whole, with the addition of 
what Mr. Cracherode’s bequest has since sup¬ 
plied, may now be said to form, if not a splendid, 
at least a very copious and useful mineralogical 
collection. 
All those who are conversant with Oriental 
Literature, must be well acquainted with the 
d 2 distin- 
Hatchett’s 
Minerals. 
Halhed's 
Oriental MSS. 
