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gin to fall, and his hand loll its wonted fleadinefs. 
He retired from public employment, to a little houfe 
which he purchafed at Tlaiflow ; previous to which, 
he difpoied of all the copies, as well as plates, of 
his works, f* The converfation of a few fele£t 
friends, 
« lumes in folio, and eight in quarto. Some addition has been made to 
ts this valuable collection fince it was depofited in Montague-houfe, efpe- 
“ dally to the foflils, by a valuable prefent from Gustavus Brander, 
" Efq; 
Betides the above catalogue of natural productions, his library confin¬ 
ed of more than 50,000 vols. 350 of which with plates drawn and 
coloured after nature—3566 Manufcripts in various languages. 
•J* * College of Phyficians, JVa?~wick-Lane, May if, 1769. 
To the Nobility, Gentry* and Curious in general. 
Having this day fold and delivered to Mr. James Robson, Bookfeller, 
in New Bond Street, all the remaining copies of my Natural Hiftory, in 
feven volumes quarto, coloured under my own immediate infpeCtion, to¬ 
gether with all my copper-plates, letter-prefs, and every article in my pof* 
fefiion relative to it. I have thought it a duty incumbent upon me, in 
juftice to the public, as well as to the purchafer, to declare, that all fu¬ 
ture publications of the faid Natural Hiftory are the foie right and property 
of Mr. Robson : and that my labours may be handed down to pofterity, 
with integrity, truth, and exaCtnefs, I have delivered into his hands a 
complete fet of the plates, highly coloured by myfelf, as a ftandard to 
thofe Artifts who may be employed in colouring them for the future. 
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