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Richard Harlan's Collection of Craniology and Comparative Anatomy

A large electrical apparatus, sufficiently powerful to give a moderate shock, without the Leyden Phial

Rotating cylinders of Ampere

A Page of Stereotype

gall

Plaster Head, to show the original System of Craniolgoy, by Dr. Gall

"5 jars shewing the results of Dr. [George] Hunter's analysis of City Pump Water, viz. 220 gallons of Water evaporated yielded 24 ox. common salt, 32 oz. Salt Petre, 17 oz. Magnesia, and 12 oz. Lime

A Draisina or Velocipede, invented by Count Drais of Germany

Human hand injected with mercury

Glass case containing an artificial singing Bird, prepared by Franklin Peale

A Viameter, which belonged to the late Dr. D'Orleans

canoe

A Model of a Canoe, such as the inhabitants of the North West Coast of America use to catch Sea Otters