. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. </'^^^^'^'f4uxUy^, 1485 i486 14S7 4 1490 1491 (?c^ ^ ,493 1494 149s ,1496 1497 ( 66 ) Sijndry curious foreign Seeds, Woods, Gums, &c, including the Fruit of t]ie Garcinia Mangoftana, from' Java; the Manilla or St. Ignatius's Bean, luiih an account of its 'virtues; a fee
. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. </'^^^^'^'f4uxUy^, 1485 i486 14S7 4 1490 1491 (?c^ ^ ,493 1494 149s ,1496 1497 ( 66 ) Sijndry curious foreign Seeds, Woods, Gums, &c, including the Fruit of t]ie Garcinia Mangoftana, from' Java; the Manilla or St. Ignatius's Bean, luiih an account of its 'virtues; a feed veflel of the lUicium anifatum ; Gum from Neiv- HoUand; the feed vefTel of Nymphaea nelumbo, and a fine fpecimen of Lyco- perdoii fornicatjm, L. &c. A large fpecimen cf the Bread Fruit of the South-Sea IJlands Radix Mechoacanna, Rad. Ginfeng, a Hura or Sand-box ; feeds of the Chinefe Caltrop ; 3 preferved Nutmegs; the pods of Ochroraa Lagopus, S, known by t'le name of the Down Tree or Beaver Plant, &c. Various parts of foreign Vegetables, among which are the Fruit of the Momordica -Lufta ; pod of Doiichos Enliformis; the Spatha Leaves of a kind of Palm from Otaheite % Lace Bark of the Lagetto Tree fiom Jezmaica; Wood of Illicium anifatum, L, &c. Twenty-five fpecimens of foreign Woods, neatly cut and labelled — A fmall board and 8 veneers of curious foreign Woods, a fmgular clufter of pine cones, &c. The leaves and acorns of many fpscies of Oaks, labelled Various fpecimens of dried Plants, in 6 parcels; fome Britijh, others ixQVti France^ , Tobago, and Africa A large colleftion of Fuci or Sea Weeds, mojl of them expanded A'Very fne coUeiiion of Britijh Mojfes, Bryums, Hypnums, l^c. 'well frefer'ved, glued . do'wn and named after the Linnaan method, in a neat portfolio, gilt and lettered oa the back A complete colle£iion of Britijh Grajfes, in fwo portfolios, all arranged and nanted after Linn^.US A mifcellany of dried Plants, Britifh and Exotic, m
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