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ROOM X. 
Nat. Hist. 
TENTH ROOM. 
BRITISH ORYCTOGNOSTIC COLLECTION. 
This room contains the rudiments of a collec¬ 
tion of British simple mineral substances. In a 
series of table cases are deposited the minerals of 
the first seven counties of England, in alphabetical 
succession, from Bedfordshire to Devonshire inclu¬ 
sive. The names of the counties are on the upper 
part of these table cases, the contents of which are 
disposed, by longitudinal and parallel divisions, into 
four classes, viz. Earths, Metals, Inflammable Sub¬ 
stances, and Salts. These divisions (as soon as con¬ 
venient room shall be obtained) are to be continued, 
in the same direction, through the whole series of 
table cases, so that it may be ascertained at one 
view, if any and which of the substances belonging 
to those classes, are to be met with in any given 
part of Great Britain. 
ELEVENTH ROOM 
Is appropriated to British Zoology, and at present 
under arrangement. 
