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white men, 8000 miles through the equatorial regions of Africa. 

 He shot, stuffed, and brought home more than 2000 birds, of 

 which upwards of 60 are new species. He killed above 1000 

 quadrupeds, of which 200 were stuffed and brought home, with 

 more than 80 skeletons, not less than 20 of which are species 

 hitherto unknown to science. In the course of his travels he 

 suffered 50 attacks of the African fever, endured much famine, 

 was exposed to heavy tropical rains and attacks of ferocious and 

 venomous insects. The book is full of strange incidents pertain- 

 ing to the customs and habits of the African race. The Cannibal 

 Jans he introduces for the first time to the knowledge of Euro- 

 peans. They are evidently a fine and hopeful race of people, and 

 with the exception of their liking for human flesh, seem to be 

 more agreeable savages to live among than many of the tribes 

 around them. The author had a proper dread of eating native 

 cookery, fearing, lest unconsciously, he should be feasting upon 

 some portion of a fellow-creature. These races of colored people 

 — many of them are not black — have features of character which 

 give much promise. They are by no means destitute of capacity 

 or sense, and their ways of acting in civil and social life are not 

 different from those which we find among people of another skin. 

 Were they only Christianised and civilized they might become a 

 great people, and raise their country to a high place among the 

 nations. This country is yet a virgin ground to the missionary 

 and the trader. The author's aim is to open it up to both. The 

 geographical portion of the work is of great interest. The moun- 

 tain ranges and the river courses have been noted with precision, 

 and much that is new has been discovered. We commend this 

 book to all readers. To the young it will be " as interesting as a 

 novel," and to the lover of science it will be no common treat. 



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BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Regulations for the exchange of Specimens. The laws of the 

 Society provide for the formations of the public herbarium and 

 the extension and improvement of private herbaria. In order to 

 accomplish these important objects, arrangements have been made 

 for receiving from members contributions of dried specimens of 



