Catalogue of the natural productions and curiosities, which compose the collections of the Cabinet of Natural History, opened for public exhibition, at No. 38, William-Street, New-York.

  • Delacoste, J. B.
Date:
1804
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the natural productions and curiosities, which compose the collections of the Cabinet of Natural History, opened for public exhibition, at No. 38, William-Street, New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ence, and from conversation with several of them having been led to believe that a regular cabinet of Natural His- tory, consisting of a general collection of quadrupeds, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, of the most rare and curious plants of North and South America, and of such other animals and natural productions, as can be obtained from the other parts of the globe, would prove a desideratum, not only to the amateurs of this science, but to persons of information in general, the Subscriber, proprietor of a very extensive and valuable collection of subjects of Natural History, collected and prepared by himself on the coast of Guyana in South America, and consisting of a very great variety of quadrupeds, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, fruits, seeds, &c. &c. has determined to establish such a cabinet, and has, for that purpose, taken the house No. 38, in William-Street, where he has arranged his said collection and a number of subjects already collected in this country, in a scientific manner, according to their various kinds, classes and species. The rooms are provided with convenient furniture, with writing implements, printed catalogues of the subjects, and good authors on Natural History : and every accom- modation is furnished to those who are desirous of more particularly examining the collection and of becoming more acquainted with this science. The very flattering and honourable patronage which this establishment has obtained, when first instituted, from a number of gentlemen of the first respectability; the public approbation thereof, expressed in a letter to the proprietors, by characters of the greatest eminence in the scientific line, which has been published some time ago, and the uiversal acquiescence to its plan and arrangement manifested by all those who have visited it, induced the