The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
MS 415
Royal Society of London Archives, Royal Society of London, London, Gresham College, Crane Court
Date:c. 1763 Documents in Manuscript: Catalogue C [of the Royal Society Repository](Catalogue)Annotation:"An interleaving of selected pages and a few of the engraved figures from Musaeum [Regalis]; a mutilated copy of the book is still in the Society's Library. The collection of printed and manuscript leaves has a preliminary label 'A General Plan of the System of Classification', and is in four sections with modem labels which relate them to Grew's chapters. The latest dated entry seems to be of 27 February 1728, but Simpson dates it 1763" (LeFanu, 110).
See also Simpson. Bibliographic Source(s): Nehemiah Grew: A Study and Bibliography ..., page: 110
Newton's Telescope and the Cataloguing o..., page: passim
Musæum Regalis Societatis, or, A c..., page: