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After the publication of the lafl work, being 
lived at his feventieth year, he found his light be- 
gin 
An account of the names and numbers of the feveralfpecies of things contained 
in the Mufeum of Sir Hans Sloan e, Bart, and which, finee his death , 
are placed for the ufe of the public in the Britijh Mufeum. 
The library, including Echini, echinites, See. 659 
books of drawings, Aheriae, trochi, entrochi, 5 ec. 241 
manuferipts, & prints, Cruhaceas, crabs, lobhers, &c. 363 
amounting to about vol. 
50000 
Stellce marinas, har-fifties, Sec. 
*73 
Medals and coins, ancient and 
Fifties, and their parts 
1 555 
modern 
23000 
Birds, and their parts, eggs and 
Cameos and intaglios, about 
700 
nehs of different fpecies 
1 172 
Seals, &c. 
268 
Quadrupeds, &c. 
1886 
Veffels, Sec. of agate, jafper. See. 542 
Vipers, ferpents, ,&c. 
521 
Antiquities 
1125 
Infe&s, &c. 
5439 
Precious hones, agates, jafpers. 
Vegetables - 12506 
&c. 
2256 
Hortus ficcus, or volumes of 
Metals, minerals, ores, &c. 
2 7 2 5 
dried plants 
334 
Cryhals, fpars, Sec. 
1864 
Humana, as calculi, anatomical 
Foffils, hints, hones, &c. 
I2 75 
preparations. Sec. 
756 
Earths, fands, falts. Sec. 
i °35 
Miicellaneous things, natural. 
Bitumens, fulphurs,ambers, &c. 399 
&c. 
2098 
Talcs, micas, Sec. 
388 
Mathematical inhruments 
55 
Corals, fponges, &c. 
1421 
Pictures and drawings framed 
47 i 
Tehacea, or (hells, &c. 
S 8 43 
« Every fingle particular of all the above articles are numbered, and 
“ entered by name, with fhort accounts of them, and references to feve- 
« ral authors who have heretofore wrote about them, in thirty-eight vo- 
" lumes 
