Robert Huntington was Professor of Theology, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland. Once a chaplain to the English traders in Aleppo, he left for Egypt and obtained, at great expense and effort, two moderately large stone reliefs with hieroglyphic characters and pictures, and with as much enthusiasm to rival his friend Goodyear, gave them to this Museum.

Having thus dispatched such as are mentioned in the accurate Calatalogus Plantarum Jamaic. Mader. Barbadoes, &c. and those I could reduce thereto, I shall proceed to others that I could not, or have since been received. The Rose of Jericho, a dry and ligneous Plant, all the Branches whereof are crumpled and closed up together, yet if infused in Water, will expand it self, as this did, three Inches. Some Imposters choose to make the Experiment on Christmas-Eve, to make the Credulous believe it will only spring at that Time; whence it is by some call'd the Angelical, or the Christmas-Rose. The Gift of Seignor Altchribel, who brought it from the Desart of Judea. He gave me also a Rod, from a Mountain in Arabia, inaccessible, save to the Natives, who pretend it is sprung from Moses's Rod. And also a Sample of the Wood from Mecca, of which the Turks make Tooth-Brushes. Manna gathered in the Wilderness, where the Children of Isræl travelled. Don. Ric. Hey Merc. Leod. A Cone of Cedar, said to be from Libanus. A Fragment of the Wood of the Cedar that is indisputably so, being brought from that noted Mount, by Dr. Huntington, and given me by his Nephew, perhaps the Cone may rather be from America, than Lebanon, where very few now remain: A great Traveller is said to have found one there, as big as seven Men could Compass (q)(q) Dr. Brown of Scripture Plants.. A Locust, or Piece of Cassia Fistula, the Cod and Fruit near eight Inches long, and four broad. Another about six and three. Another less. A different Lobe, much thicker than the greatest, though neither so long or broad as the least. Pine-Apples and Firre-cones.