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MISCELLANEOUS [jjPPER FLOOR, 
of wood sewed together, from Queen Charlotte's Island ; 
various kinds of paddles, &c. 
Over the Cases 25 and 26. A large wooden drum 
with lateral opening, made of the trunk of a tree; a wooden 
box, &c. 
In the Window near the entrance-door, are a 
pacuna , or tube for blowing the small poisoned arrows in 
Case 5; a bow of the Indians of the banks of the Ucayali; 
some spears made of palm wood and some of bow wood, 
and a bow from the Indians of the Marahon; and a wooden 
spear from the Napo. Presented hy Lieut . Henry Lister 
Maw, R.N. 
In the centre of the Room, within a glazed frame, is one 
of the originals of Magna Cliarta, belonging to the Cot¬ 
tonian Library; at the. side, there is an Engraving of 
it in fac-simile by Pine. 
SECOND ROOM; 
THIRD ROOM ; 
FOURTH ROOM. 
These apartments are devoted to Sir Joseph Banks’s, 
together with Sir Hans Sloane’s and other collections of 
dried plants. 
FIFTH ROOM; 
SIXTH ROOM; 
SEVENTH ROOM. 
These apartments are at present occupied by Sir Joseph 
Banks’s Library. 
In the centre of the Sixth Room the general collection 
of insects is preserved in cabinets. 
In the Seventh Room, near the third window hang three 
specimens of minute writing, forming the portraits of 
Queen Anne, Prince George of Denmark, and the Duke 
of Gloucester their son, with a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton 
in bas-relief. 
Near the door of entrance from the sixth room is pre¬ 
served a specimen of the ( Cyperus Papyrus or) Papyrus reed. 
J. G. Children. 
