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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
ROOM X. 
Nat. Hist. 
mains, an extensive collection of fruits and seeds 
from the blue clay of the cliffs in the Isle of 
Sheppey, and impressions of leaves and other 
parts of plants, in bituminous marl slate from 
Oeningen, &c. 
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 alphabe¬ 
tical succession, from Bedfordshire to Devon¬ 
shire inclusive. The names of the counties are 
on the upper part of these table-cases, the con¬ 
tents of which are disposed, by longitudinal and 
parallel divisions, into four classes, viz. Earths, 
Metals, Inflammable Substances, and Salts. 
These divisions (as soon as convenient 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 
