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on which day we started for Bordeaux, but with adverse winds 

 only got so far as Royau on the Gironde, thence going by rail to 

 Bordeaux on the 25 th, leaving next day for Paris, where I left 

 Lilford." 



January to June, 1874 

 Genoa 



'■'■January 2'ith, 1874. Went up to see the Museo- 

 Civile on the Acquabola. The Marchese Giacomo 

 Doria, who is curator, proposed to the municipality some 

 five years ago to present his collections in various 

 branches to that body, if they would find him house 

 room for them and appoint him curator. They con- 

 sented and gave him a villa, which he has arranged as a 

 museum on a most excellent plan. The principal part 

 of the collection is still in skins, but a considerable 

 number of mammalia and birds are stuffed and mounted. 

 Doria made large collections in Persia and Borneo, but 

 the chief interest to me lies in the local collection, which 

 is very rich is ornithology. The chief rarities in that 



