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FOURTH ROOM. 
SLOANEAN AND BIRCHS COLLECTIONS 
OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
ROOM IV. A collection of MSS. bequeathed by the late 
Three Presses Dr. Bii’ch, Consisting; of three hundred and thirty- 
betweeu the ^ 
^windows.^ seven volumes, chiefly on history, biography, 
Presses III.— 
XXX. 
sioanean Sir Hans Sloane’s Library of MSS., consisting 
MSS. „ , . . 1, 1 . T 
or 4100 volumes, principally on physic, natural 
history, and natural philosophy. It also contains 
Kmmpfer’s MSS.; several journals of voyages ; 
and some Oriental'MSS. 
In a recess, within this room, are placed Mr. 
Hashed’s and some other collections of Dnental 
MSS. ; and a collection of MSS. and Rolls, 
consisting of sixty-two articles relating to Kent, 
purchased of Mr. Hasted. 
Over the chimney is a drawing of the Palace of 
Columna, near Moscow, which belonged to the 
Czars of Moscovy; it was built of wood, and is 
now demolished : presented by the Flonourable 
Percy Wyndham^. 
divinity, and literature. 
FIFTH ROOM. 
HARLEIAN LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
The greatest part of the Harleian Library of 
Manuscripts is deposited in this Room, which is 
at present appropriated for the use of the readers. 
• A Catalogue of the contents of this Room, and of most of the 
additional acquisitions in the fifth Room, compiled by tlie Rev. S. 
Ayscough, was printed in the year 1772, in two volumes quarto. 
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