Introduction
Sloane’s collections consisted of:
- 268 seals and 700 cameos.
- 2,256 precious stones and agates.
- 1,275 fossils, flints and stones.
- 5,843 shells, 1,421 corals, and sponges, 659 starfishes, 363 crabs, 1,555 fishes, 1,172 birds,521 snakes, 52 quadrupeds, 1886 insects, 756 human anatomical preparations.
- 12,506 parts of plants, 344 volumes of dried plants,