- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps*
- Introduction: The Original Sloane Ranger
- I. Empire of Curiosities
- 1. Transplantation
- 2. Island of Curiosities
- 3. Keeping the Species from Being Lost
- II. Assembling The World
- 4. Becoming Hans Sloane
- 5. The World Comes to Bloomsbury
- 6. Putting the World in Order
- 7. Creating the Public’s Museum
- Conclusion: The Man Who Collected the World
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Maps
- 1. London in the eighteenth century
- 2. The North Atlantic, c. 1740
- 3. East India Settlements in South and East Asia, 1660–1760