Roman, the fixpence Scots of K. Charles II. 1677; the fame of King William, 1696; a bodle of King Charles II. ; an English halfpenny, and three farthings of King Charles II.; a halfpenny and a farthing of King William and Queen Mary; the fame of King William; the fame of King George I.; the fame of King George II. ; three halfpennies and a farthing of King George III.; three Irish pennies, having pieces of brass ftruck into the coppper; three Irith halfpennies of King Charles II. the dates 1680, 1681, 1682; a half crown of King James II. of Great Britain, the date May 1690; five fhillings of the fame King, the dates January, September, October, November, and December 1689; a fixpence, dated January 1689; a fhilling, dated June 1690; eleven Irish coins of King William and Queen Mary, King William, King George I. II. and III.; an Isle of Man penny, dated 1733; another, dated 1758; a halfpenny of the fame Ifland, dated 1758; an American penny, dated 1723; five German coins, four Ruffian coins, five French coins, three Spanish coins, ten Swedish coins, four Portugueze coins, one Danish coin, two Sicilian coins, four coins of the Netherlands, a brass German medal, and a kalender for the year 1772, on gilt brafs..

1783 July 1.

By Meffrs BRYDSON & BAILLIE of Glasgow.

515. A good impreffion, in Paris plaifter, of the great feal for Scotland, of the Protec.. tor Oliver Cromwell.

By Mr GEORGE PATON.

516. The following books, viz. Pallas Armata, or, Military Effays of the ancient Grecian, Roman, and modern Art of War. By Sir James Turner, Knight. Small folio. London, 1683. A letter from Signior Francisco Ficoroni to James Lord Johnston. 8vo, Naples, 1718. And Baxter's Gloffarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum. Two volumes 8vo,. London, 1723.

By Mr WILLIAM SPROT Sollicitor at Law.

517. Two old Spanish copper coins, of irregular shape.

By Mr ROBERT TAYLOR of St Enoch's Burn, Glasgow.

518. A Scottish fourteen fhilling piece of King Charles II. 1682.

By Dr JOHN AITKEN.

519. The contents of the human thorax, in their natural pofition, the blood-veffels injected, and the whole varnished.

By.

1783. July 1.

July 15.

By Capt. CAMPBELL of the 94th Regiment.

520. A filver Teftoon of King James V. of Scotland, in fine prefervation.

By Mr GEORGE AITKENHEAD.

521. The broad upper part of the horn of an elk, dug up anno 1779, feventy-fix feet below the furface of the ground, in Trinity Muir, in the heart of a marle bed, which, besides being covered with feveral ftrata of earth, clay, and fand, each between fix and eight feet in thickness, had over them all a covering of mofs to the height of thirty feet.

By Mr JOHN KNOX of Richmond.

522. A commercial map of Scotland, with the roads, ftages, and distances, brought down to 1782, coloured.

By Mr ROBERT CLYDSDALE Watchmaker.

523. A small piece of fculpture, in brafs; on one fide, the head of Jupiter; on the ther, that of Mercury.

By Mr RICHARD COOPER Engraver.

524. His engraving, after the original defign of Sir Anthony Vandyke, of a proceffion of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 4 feet 6 inches broad, and I foot four inches high, the fize of the original. In aquatinta. Together with an etched copy of the fame.

By Mr ANDREW BLANE Writer to the Signet.

525. A filver Denarius of the Emperor Nerva Trajanus, in good preservation.

By Mr THOMAS TOD Merchant.

526. A copy of his obfervations on Dr M'Farlane's inquiries concerning the state of the poor. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1783.

By Mr GAVIN HOGG of Elie.

527. An exact copy of a charter of King William the Lion, of the lands of Ardross, in Fife, Merlafivano, et haeredibus fuis, granted apud Perth, but without date.

By Mr THOMAS RULE Writer.

528. An original letter, from the privy council of Scotland, addreffed to the Earl of Callendar fheriff, principal of the fhire of Stirling, ordering him to vifit the houses of Cardrofs and Glentirran, which were to be garrifoned, and to provide all neceffaries for 50

foot

foot foldiers, and twelve dragoons, for each of these houses, dated the 22d of July 1675, and figned by fourteen of the council.

By the Right Hon. the EARL of BUCHAN.

529. An engraving, by Mr Andrew Bell, of the portrait of Duncan Forbes of Culloden. Efq; Lord President of the Court of Seffion.

By Mr GEORGE Paton.

530. The two following books, viz. 1ft, Jo. Georgii Eccardi Hiftoria studii etymologici linguae Germanicae hactenus impenfi; Hanoverae, 1711. 2d, Illuftris viri Godofr. Gulielmi Leibnitii collectanea etymologica. Hanoverae, 1717. Both in 12mo.

By FRANCIS M'NAB of McNab, Efq;

531. The head of a Highland purfe, wherein is concealed four piftols, two pointed to July 29€ the right, and as many to the left fide. They may be fired either fingly, in pairs, or all at The materials are brafs, fteel, and filver.

once.

By Mr JAMES BALLINGALL of Dundee.

532. A Spanish pistorin of King Philip V. dated 1708.

By Mr JAMES BROWN Architect.

533. A martin, in its natural position, dried up; a bodle of King Charles II. and a farthing of King George I. dated 1724, both dug up in the Meadow, near Edinburgh.

By Mr THOMAS RULE Writer.

534. A copper coin of Albert and Elizabeth, Arch Dukes of Austria, &c. dated 1600, having, on one fide, their heads in profile, affrontée, on the other, their arms in four fhields.

By Mr JOHN POLLOCK Merchant.

535. A British halfpenny of King George I. dated 1718, in good preservation.

By Mr ROBERT SPROT Tallow Chandler..

536. Two Roman bronze coins, one of the Emperor Hadrianus, the other of Maximi、

anus..

C c..

By

By a LADY.

537. Two medals, in brafs, of King George II. and William Duke of Cumberland; three Scots bodles; four French copper coins; and three copper coins of Guelderland, Zeeland, and the Auftrian Netherlands.

By WILLIAM STRAHAN, Efq; M. P.

538. Five filver medals, one on the Union, having the buft of Queen Anne on one fide, and the British arms and fupporters on the other; 2d, one in honour of Queen Caroline, when Regent; on one fide, the Queen is reprefented watering a plantation of young palms; on the other, Minerva, furrounded with trophies of arms, and inftruments of arts, the date 1736. 3d, On the Shetland fifhery; on one fide, Frederick Prince of Wales, in profile; on the other, a representation of herring bufhes, nets, &c. the date 1750. 4th, One on the invention of printing; on one fide, a woman holding a garland, her head radiated, at her fide a printing press, and before her a book, on the edge of which is the word Typographia, below her feet the word Harlemum, on the other fide a fhip under fail, attacked on each fide by the garrifons of two caftles, out of each of which a ferpent iffues; infcription, Vicit vim virtus, and below the arms of Harlem. 5th, On the city of Alcmaria, the first that opposed the Spanish arms, in the Netherlands, with fuccefs; infcription, Alcmaria victrix. Two filver Roman coins, one of Valerianus, the other of Volufianus. A gold coin of King James VI. of Scotland; on one fide, the Scottish arms, on the other, a fword and scepter, in faltyr, the date 1608, the weight 3 drops 4 grains. Four Scottish filver coins, viz. 1st, a penny of King Alexander III. 2d, A groat of King David II. Villa A-ber-don. 3d. A coin of King James VI.; on one fide, the arms of Scotland, on the other, a thistle, the date 1602. 4th, A 20 pence piece of King Charles I.; a fixpence of Queen Elizabeth, dated 1562; a half pistoreen of Philip V. King of Spain, dated 1721; a coin of the city of Campvere dated 1679; a small German coin, dated 1642; and a penny and halfpenny of the Isle of Man, each dated 1733.

By Mrs HAMILTON, junior, of Olivebauk.

539. A mafs of small shells, petrified, a fpecimen of the materials used in all the buildings at St Augufline, in Florida.

By Mr WALTER Ross Writer to the Signet.

540. Six ferpents, of various fizes, three gray lizards, two large centipeds, two fcorpions, a flying fifb, two minews, and a Cashew apple and nut; all in spirits.

By

By Mr JOHN NICHOLS Printer London.

541. Scottish comic ballads, with a gloffary. London, 12mo, 1783.

By the Rev. Dr GEDDES.

542. A fair impreffion, in lead, of the feal of the monaftery of Inchaffry; on one fide is reprefented the Apoftle St John, ftanding in the porch of a gothic church, in his right hand a branch of palm, in his left a book; on the other, an eagle; in his talons a scroll, whereon are these words, In principio erat verbum; infcription on each fide, S. commune ecce Sci Fohis Evangeliste de Infula miffarum.

By WILLIAM TYTLER of Woodhoufelee. Efq;

543. A copy of his edition of the poetical remains of James I. King of Scotland, to which is prefixed a hiftorical and critical differtation on the life and writings of that monarch. 8vo, Edinburgh, 1783.

By WILLIAM CHARLES LITTLE of Libberton, Efq;

544. A Scottish copper penny of King Charles II. in fine prefervation.

By the SECRETARY.

545. A copy of the order obferved at the coronation of Sir Alexander Araskine of Cambo, Baronet, Lord Lyon King of Arms, at the palace of Holyroodhoufe, on the 27th of July 1681; his Royal Highnefs James Duke of Albany and York being his Majefty's High Commiffioner.

By Dr JOHN AITKEN.

546. The skeleton of the head of a ram, the horns large and entire.

By Mrs HAMILTON, junior, of Olivebank.

547. A North American Indian Tomahawk.

By CHARLES CORDELL, Efq; Newcastle.

548. The following ancient Roman coins, viz. one of Julius Caefar, two of Vespasian, one of Domitian, one of Nerva, and one of Antoninus Pius.

1783. Aug. 12.

By

Sept. 2.