The Old Ashmolean : the oldest museum for the history of the natural sciences and medicine / by R.T. Gunter.
- Robert Gunther
- Date:
- 1933
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Old Ashmolean : the oldest museum for the history of the natural sciences and medicine / by R.T. Gunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![viously described. It was pioneer work of great value; but the University declined to print it; and Lhwyd was compelled to seek financial aid from his friends; Sir Isaac Newton; Sir Hans Sloane; and others; and so succeeded in getting 120 copies printed in 1699 under the title Lithophylacii Britan- nici Ichnographia. 1700 species and varieties of formed stones are described therein; and it was re¬ printed by William Huddesford in 1760. And in 1770 under the same editorship the second edition of the Historiae sive Synopsis Metho- dicae Conchyliorum et Tabularum Anatomicarum of Dr. Martin Lister to which were added Duo Indices, the first according to the classification adopted by Lister and the second according to the new System of Linnaeus. These indexes he dedicated to Margaret Cavendish; Dowager Duchess of Port¬ land. John Aubrey; Lives of [the Mathematicians] Eminent Men now first published from the original MSS. in the Ashmolean Museum. 1813. For a century and a third no Keeper after Lhwyd attempted to publish any original catalogue of the Collections; but in 1836 Philip Duncan issued a Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum descriptive of the Zoological Specimens, Antiquities, Coins and Miscellaneous Curiosities. Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society, vol. i; 1832— 42; vol. ii; 1842-53; vol. iii; 1853-March 1858. Transactions of the Ashmolean Society, vol. i; 1835-8 ; vol. ii. 1838-53. Black; W. H. A descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts bequeathed by Elias Ashmole, also of some additional MSS. contributed by Kingsley, Lhwyd, Borlase, and others. 1845. Strickland; H. E.; President of the Ashmolean Society. The Dodo and its Kindred. 4to. 1848.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29824096_0157.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
