Notes Introduction I. Peter Mundy, The Travels ofPeter Mundy, in Europe andAsia, 1608-1667, HaMuyt Society ser. 2,45 ,3:1-3. In the 1656catalogue of the Tradescant collection, the "Cherry stone" mentioned by Mundy is described as having "upone one side S. George and the Dragon, perfectly cut: and on the other side 88 Emperours faces" (J.T. [John Tradescant the younger], Musaeum Tradescantianum;orA Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, 38). For contemporary drawings of the "Cherry stone," see Arthur MacGregor, ed., Tradescant?Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of theAshmolean Museum, Plate CLXXIII. 2. John Evelyn, Numismata, 282. 3. Oxford English Dictionary, S.V."collection," "collector." 4. John Evelyn, Diary and CorrespondenceofJohn Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 3:305 (from a letter to Pepys, 12 August 1689). 5. R. Malcolm Smuts, Court Cultureand the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England, 119,121;Arthur MacGregor, "King Charles I: A Renaissance Collector?" 154. On aristocratic Stuart art collections, see also David Howarth, LordArundel and His Circle; Ronald Lightbown, "Charles I and the Tradition of European Princely Collecting"; Linda Levy Peck, "Building, Buying, and Collecting in London, 1600-1625"; Smuts, "Art and the Material Culture of Majesty in Early Stuart England"; and Timothy Wilks, "The Picture Collection of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset (c. 1587-1645), Reconsidered." 6. Sir Francis Bacon, Gesta Grayorum,in The WorksOfFrancisBacon, 8:335. 7. Lorraine J. Daston, "The Factual Sensibility,"458. 8. Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, 86-88; John Evelyn, The Diary ofJohn Evelyn, ed. de Beer, 3:594. Evelyn particularly commended Browne's extensive accumulation of birds' eggs. 9. Thomas Platter, ThomasPlatter4 Travels in England, 1599,171-73. 10. Stephen Bann, Under the Sign:John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness, 14, 15, 7; in the 163os, Arundel had attempted to buy the same obelisk (Howarth, Lord Arundel and His Circle, 111-12, 138). On the design of Bargrave's cabinets, see David Sturdy and Martin Henig, The Gentle Traveller:John Bargrave, Canon of Canterburyand his Collection. 11. James Petiver, "An Account of a BOOK. Musei Petiveriani Centuria Prima." 12. P. C. D. Brears, "Ralph Thoresby, a Museum Visitor in Stuart England," 213-14. Thoresby produced a catalogue of his collection, the Musaeum Thoresbyanum , which is bound into his chorography of Leeds, Ducatus Leodiensis. 13. For a brief description of Dee's library, see Anthony G. Medici, "John Dee." 14.Samuel Pepys, TheDiary ofSamuel Pepys, 7:243. 15.O n Pepys's library, see Esther Potter, "'To Paul's Churchyard to Treat with a Bookbinder.' " 16.Arthur MacGregor, "The Cabinet of Curiosities in Seventeenth-Century Britain," 150. 17.R.H., ahas Forges [Robert Hubert], A Catalogueofpart ofthoseRarities Collectedin thirtyyears time with ugreat dealofPains andlndustry (n.d.), title page, 25-27. 18. Robert Hooke, The Posthumous Works ofRobert Hooke, 338. 19. Michael Hunter, Establishing the New Science: The Experienceofthe Early RoyalSociety,123-39. 20. Hunter, Establishing the New Science, 149;quotation cited in David Murray , Museums: TheirHistory and Their Use, 1:zoo. 21. The British Museum opened to the public in 1759, its holdings largely comprised of the collections of Sir Hans Sloane. The Royal Society offered its Repository to the British Museum in 1779.On Sloane's collections and the foundation of the British Museum, see Epilogue, below; on the transfer of the Royal Society's collection to the Museum, see Michael Hunter, Establishing the New Science, 154-55. 22. James Deetz, In Small ThingsForgotten: TheArchaeology ofEarly American Life, 7, quoted in Susan M. Pearce, Museums, Objects and Collections: A Cultural Study,5. 23. Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, andJ. H. Plumb, TheBirth ofa Consumer Society: The Commercialization ofEighteenth-Century England. On the historiography of the "backdating" of consumer culture to the early modern period, seeJean Christophe Agnew, "Coming Up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective ," 23-26. 24. LisaJardine, Woddly Goods:A New History o f the Renaissance,10. 25. Chandra Mukerji, From Graven Images: Patterns $Modern Materialism , 13. 26. Joan Thirsk, EconomicPolicy and Projects: The Development ofa Consumer Society in Early Modern England, 179. 27.James Clifford, The Predicament o f Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography , Literature, andArt, 217. 28. C. B. Macpherson, "Capitalism and the Changing Concept of Property," 106. 29. Rlchard A. Goldthwaite, Wealth and the Demandfor Art in Italy, 13001600 , 255. 30. Influential anthropological accounts of the social meanings of objects include Arjun Appadurai, "Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value," in The SocialLife$Things: Commodities in CulturalPerspective, ed. Appadurai, 363...