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accepted without hesitation. Before the expira¬ 
tion of that year an Act was passed^ which ordered 
the payment of the stipulated sum to his Execu¬ 
tors, and vested the property of the Museum in 
Trustees for the use of the Public.* 
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* From a schedule which was handed about at the time of the 
purchase, we collect the following totals of the contents of this 
Museum ; but as this document is by no means authentic, we must 
request our readers to consider these numbers rather as approxi¬ 
mations than as accurate enumerations. 
Library of printed books and manuscripts, including books 
of prints and drawings... Voh, 50,000 
Coins and medals. 23,000 
Antique idols, utensils, . 1,125 
Cameos, intaglios, seals, &c.. 1,500 
Vessels and utensils of agate, jasper, &c... .. 542 
Anatomical preparations of human bodies, parts of mum¬ 
mies, calculi, &c. 756 
Quadrupeds and their parts....,. 8,186 
Birds a»d their parts, egg« and nests.... L172 
Fishes and their parts. 1,555 
Amphibia. 521 
Crustacea. . . 1,436 
Shells, echini, introehi. 5,845 
Insects. 5,394 
Corals, spunges, zoophytes. 1,421 
Stones, ores, bitumens, s^lts, &c. 9>9^^ 
Volumes of dried plants. 334 
Mathematical Instruments,... 55 
Miscellaneous artificial curiosities. 2,098 
MS. catalogues of the whole Museum, 38 vols. fob and 8 quarto. 
