1783.

By Mr ADAM CARDONNEL.

614. A carving, in wood, of the buft of the Emperor Conrade II.; and a paffport fign. Dec. 30. ed by William Duke of Cumberland, dated the 21st of June 1746.

By Dr THOMAS HUTCHINSON.

615. An engraving of an ancient ring, of fine gold, in the poffeffion of Dr Hunter physician in York, found in a garden at Malton, in Yorkshire, 1774.

By Dr ROBERT CLEGHORN.

616. A copy of his medical thefis, De Somno.

By Mr CHARLES BALFOUR.

617. Two letters written in the Persian character, on paper ornamented with gold.

By Mr GILMOUR of Copenhagen.

618. A Ruffian Copeck of the Emperor Peter the Great.

By ALEXANDER BARON of Preston, Efq;

619. Four filver Swedish coins of King Guftavus III.; three Danish filver coins; four fmall copper dollars of Charles XII. King of Sweden, infcribed, Phoebus, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn; nine copper Swedish coins; and one copper Danish coin.

By Mr WALTER SMITON.

620. A Dutch copper medal, representing two armies on one fide, and an encampment on the other, dated 1598.

By Mr WILLIAM VAIR.

621. A well preserved fhilling of King George I. of the South Sea Company's filver, dated 1723.

By Dr JOHN GRIEVE.

622. A pair of boots, from Tartary, of fine yellow leather, ornamented with filk and embroidery.

By

By the Right Hon. the EARL of BUCHAN.

623. A dutiful and loyal address, figned by the chief heritors, and heads of clans, in the Highlands of Scotland, in number one hundred and two, to King George I. on his acceffion to the throne, obtained by the Earl of Mar, but prevented from reaching his Majefty, by the intrigues of the enemies of thefe brave clans.

By Dr WILLIAM CUMING of Dorchefter.

624. A copy of King Edward VI.'s book of common prayer, printed by Richard Grafton, fmall folio; London, 1552. Thomae Malleoli a campis opera, folio; Nuremberg, 1523; a confecrated wax candle, brought from the chapel of our Lady of Loretto, by Captain George Horfeley, anno 1773. Impreffions from feals of the bufts of James Francis Edward Stewart, the Princefs Clementina Sobieski, and their two fons; an impreffion of the feal ring of Mary Queen of Scots, on which is the quartered arms of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. And a Chinese paffport for the English Eaft India Company's fhip the Princess Royal, in 1777, in a crimson paper cover.

By Mr THOMAS HUTCHIESON.

625. A Spanish copper coin, of an irregular shape.

By WILLIAM CHARLES LITTLE of Libberton, Efq;

626. A Russian ruble, of the Czar Peter the Great, dated 1712; one of William Wood's Irish halfpence, dated 1723; and a farthing of King George II. both well preserved.

By Mr JAMES KENION.

627. Two filver Danish coins, aed the following copper ones, viz. a British farthing of. King Charles II. two French coins, a Swedish, a Danish and a Zealand eoin, and a trades-man's token for fourpence.

1783. Dec. 30.

1784. Jan. 13..

629. No. XIII. of the Irish Collectanea, dedicated to the Society of the Antiquarics of Scotland.

By the Right Hon. LADY WINIFRED CONSTABLE MAXWELL.

630. The head of a Roman spear of brass, finely encrufted with verdigreafe, measuring in length 13 inches, dug up in the county of Galloway.

By

1784.

Jan. 27.

Feb. 10.

By JAMES KER of Blackfhiels, Efq;

631. Antiquiffimi Virgiliani codicis fragmenta et picturae ex Bibliotheca Vaticana, ad prifcas imaginum formas, a Petro Sancto Bartholi incifae; folio. Romae, ex chalcographia R. C. A. apud pedem marmoreum 1741.

By Dr ROBERT CLAPPERTON of Lochmaben.

632. A portion of a large animal, petrified, in limeftone, from the limeftone quarry at Kelhead, in the parish of Cummertrees, in the county of Dumfries. 2d, Part of the bottom of a Roman hot bath, discovered at Lanplain, or Birrans, on the north fide of the water of Mein, in the parish of Middleby, in Annandale, being a mafs of mortar, filled with chips of brick. 3d. A beautiful brainftone, from Bristol. 4th, A large petrified fhell, in limeftone, from the lime-quarry at Braes, in the parifh of Middleby. 5th, A ftone, regularly and naturally covered with Mofaick on the furface, from the rivulet of Blackbeck, above Hillhoufe, in Canonby parish. 6th, A mafs of petrified mofs, from the parish of Wefterkirk, in Efkdale. 7th, Part of a Roman tile, from Birrans. 8th, A species of black stone, from Craig Malcolm scars, in the parish of Moffat. 9th, Marmoreous limeftone, from Sir William Maxwell of Sprinkell's eftate, on the river Kirtle, in Annandale. 10th, Dark red limeftone, from the Viscount of Stormont's eftate of Limekilns, in Annandale. 11. Petrifactions, from the Duke of Queenfberry's lime-quarry, at the back of Braunmure, in the parish of Middleby. 12. A fragment of an infcription, done by the XXth Roman legion, found at Birrans.

By the Right Hon. the EARL of BUCHAN.

633. Letters addreffed to the volunteers of Ireland, on the fubject of a parliamentary reform, by John Jebb, M. D. F. R. S.; Svo, London, 1784.

By Mifs ELIZABETH BELL.

634. A collection of original Scots proclamations, and acts of privy council, in the reigns of Kings Charles 11. James VII. William and Mary, in number eighteen; four English proclamations, in the fame reigns; and two copies of a letter from the King of Poland to the Marquifs de Grana, dated in the Vizier's tent at Vienna, the 13th of September 1683. By the AUTHOR.

635. Runnamede, a tragedy, 8vo; London, 1783.

By Mr ROBERT KER Surgeon.

636. A drawing, and defeription of an ancient Scottish arrow, and an arrow head, in the poffeffion of Mr David Martin painter, found anno 1781, in digging for a foundation at Perth, feven feet below the furface.

By

By CHARLES LOGIE, Efq; British Conful at Algiers.

637. Fifty bufts of Roman Emperors, in baffo relievo, in oval frames, and feventy-eight impreffions, from ancient and modern gems and feals, all in terra cotta.

By HUGH FRASER, Efq; of Baliol College, Oxford.

638. The Earl of Cromerty's historical account of the confpiracies of the Earls of Gowrie, and Robert Logan of Reftalrig, against King James VI. 8vo; Edinburgh, 1713. To which is annexed a vindication of King Robert III. from the imputation of bastardy.

By BAILIE JAMES GORDON.

639. A filver Danish coin of King Chriftian V.

By Mr JOHN POLLOCK Merchant.

640. A copper coin of Charles Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, dated 1768.

By Mr CARDONNEL.

641. A variety of fpecimens of the mortar of the ancient Romans, intermixed with chips. of brick, small ftones, &c.; a fquare tyle; feveral pieces of thin tyle; fome charcoal; a fquare brick tube, for carrying off the smoke; and feveral jaws, teeth, and horns, of dif ferent animals; all lately dug up from the ruins of an ancient Roman Sudatorium, disco-vered at Inverefk.

By ROBERT GRAHAM of Gartmore, Efq; from a LADY..

1784

Feb. 10.

642. The following coins, viz. three ancient Roman filver denarii, four ancient Roman 24. copper coins, a filver groat of King David II. of Scotland, another of King Robert II. each inscribed, Villa Edinburgh; a filver coin of Mary Queen of Scots, infcribed, Jam non. funt duo fed una caro; the thirty fhillings piece of Mary and Henry, dated 1565, having a crowned thistle punched in on the reverfe; two bafe filver coins of Queen Mary, infcribed, Oppidum Edinburgi; a Scottisk merk of King Charles II. dated 1669; a half merk of the fame reign, dated 1671; thirteen copper Scottish pennies of the fame reign; two Saxon filver pennies; the following English filver coins, viz. three fhillings of Queen Elizabeth, feven fixpences, and two groats, of the fame reign, two fhillings and a fixpence of King James I. one fhilling of King Charles I. and a groat of King James II.; two French filver coins, one of them Oriental; eight filver Spanish coins; one of Guftavus III. King of Sweden; five base filver coins of Denmark; three ditto of Pruffia; a filver ducat of Sicily, dated 1750; a ducat of Cologn, dated 1666; a ducat of Friefland, dated 1696; a fix ftiver piece of the

1784.

Teb. 24.

March 9.

city of Zutphen, dated 1689; four copper coins of Sweden, Portugal, Guelders, and Zealand; a quantity of Amianthus; and a touchstone of a dufky greenish colour, from the ifland of Ifla.

By Mr JOHN GILLIES Bookfeller Perth.

643. An ancient fteel helmet, dug up in the neighbourhood of the town of Perth.

By WILLIAM CHARLES LITTLE of Libberton, Efq;

644. A filver crown of Lewis XV. King of France, dated 1746.

By Mr FRANKLYN CLARKE.

645. Marci Annei Lucani de bello civili libri decem. 12mo. Lugduni, 1564.

By Mr JAMES DALLAS Writer to the Signet.

646. Original license, by William Lord Ballenden, in favour of William Selkrig writer in Glasgow, permitting him and his family, and fuch as fhall accompany him at table, to eat flesh in the forbidden time of Lent, and on all other forbidden days, till Lent 1666, dated.. February 1665.

By WILLIAM CHARLES LITTLE of Libberton, Efq;

647. Confiderations on the fociety or order of Cincinnati, lately instituted by the Majors General, Brigadiers General, and other officers of the American army, proving that it creates a race of hereditary patricians, or nobility, interfperfed with remarks on its confequences to the freedom and happinefs of the Republic. Suppofed to be written by danus Burke, Efq; one of the chief justices of the state of South Carolina. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1783.

650. A fyftem of arithmetic, by queftion and anfwer, dedicated to King Edward VI.

Printed in black letter. 12mo.

By