A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot].

Date:: 1786

Credit: A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Second Day’s Sale 1 TUESDAY THE 25th OF APRIL, 178$.' S‘Ii ELLS, COHALSy P ETRIFJC TIO NS, LOT 101 ^ I 'WO boxes, containing a great variety of fmall Shells, farted 102 A Sundry grotto (hells,.fome freeftonc fpars, and a box of Peacock coal 103 Four dozen and a half of Leopard cowries 104 Two fpecimens of Pinna,' an Orange Turbo with it’s Operculum, and various other (hells > 10^ Forty-eight cards, containing a great variety of Snails and Turbos 106 Sundry Echini Marini, Come of them with their fpines on J07 Conus Geographus, L. and a large Cone from Guinea 108 Fifteen cards of various fpecies of Patella, or Limpets i 109 Three Ammonits, a rare Cuneus, a winged Oylier from S/jgiove'r~HilI, a fpecimen of jafperfied Wood, and various other petrifadlions no Slurex aruanhs & p’erverfus, L. or right and left-handed Figs from America 111 Twenty-four cards, containing a great variety of fpecies of Voluta oliva . nz A variety of Bivalves (hells, confiding of Mytili, Cardiums, &c. 113 Nine fpecies of Helix, among which are 2 of Scarabxus, 3 Cornu arietis, L. Src. J14 The Club-fpined mammillatcd Echinus, with feveral of it’s fpines in Chalk, from • A ' • ‘ - - 115. T\, 0 fine Murex faxatilis, L. or Endive purpura, rare 116 T' air of beautiful Land Snails, from the Weji Indies—rare 117 Tt ve backs of various fpecies of Crabs ii3 Ou a malleus, or Black Hammer Oyflcr tig. Fifteen cards, containing a variety of fpecies of Nerites j2o Forty four cards of various fpecies of Trochus, Helix, Turbo, and others, mof 0/ them labelled jZ I en fpecimens of Echini marini, of different fpecies, one of them ivlth its fpines on 122 forty-two fine fpecies of Univalves, of various genera, mof of them labelled 123 J wo fina Strombus chlragra, L, ox DevW’i CViVf, in dljerenf Jlages of growth 124 'f'wenty-five cards of Univalves, of different genera, all of them with their Opcrcuh* 121 v'^oluta Melo, S. and a pair of V. Mufica, Z,.—very fne 12- 'J vventy-four cards of minute (liells,,/2r making fiowerS'—forted 11-] A pair of Strombus lambis, or Spider, and 2 Cypr. exanthema, L. indifferent fages of grenvth 28 Spon-$