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"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

Model of an improved spinning-wheel

A Grand Transparent Orrery

gall

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

canoe

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

A galvanic apparatus

Numerous additions to the Philosophical Apparatus, execu[te]d by Franklin Peale

Magic Lanthorn exhibition

A dried preperation of a human Arm with Arteries and Vains, Injected

A pair of Mr. Lewis Kunits's patent improved Cupping Glasses, with a pair of the Common kind

phantasmagoria

Human hand injected with mercury

A new invented wheel for Mills, to work by the flowing of Tides, invented by Simon Willard, Junr. a native of Massachusetts, New England

This day Mr. Joseph Brantingham has taken charge of the model of the Window Shutters [he] invented and sent to the Museum by Mr. Blanchard of N. York

Cloud's improved Gas holder for oxigen and hydrogen