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sity of Stockholm, and his collections were forwarded to that 

 institution. That University, not having a purse like that of the 

 British Museum at its back, is obliged to manage its affairs a little 

 more economically ; and as it cannot go into the market and make its 

 acquisitions by purchase, it manages to do so by exchange. When- 

 ever a scientific expedition, such as that of the " Eugenie," was 

 sent out, or private arrangements made with collectors abroad, 

 large stores of specimens were directed to be accumulated and 

 sent exclusively to the museum. These were put in the hands of 

 the keeper of the museum, our much respected friend, Professor 

 Boheman, with free permission to use them for the benefit of the 

 Institution ; and by means of a very extensive correspondence, he 

 distributed them among scientific men all over the world, receiving 

 in exchange what they had to give. The results of this have been 

 to make the University of Stockholm a first class museum, inferior, 

 no doubt, in much to our own museum, but superior to it in such 

 scientific types as are not to be had by purchase (except by the 

 purchase of some entire collection, after the death of the owner, 

 in which they have been accumulated by the same process as that 

 followed by the Stockholm Museum). Wahlberg's collections were 

 distributed this way, and while Lake N'Gami was almost unknown 

 to the general public, specimens of its natural history, sent home 

 by him, Avere spread over all Europe and America in the cabinets 

 of men of science. Hence the drying up of the source whence 

 these came, invested his fate with a special interest in the eyes 

 of those who, like many of the readers of this Journal, formerly 

 profited by his labours. 



From Mr Green's narrative, it appears that his fate was entirely 

 due to his practice of "foot-hunting." He had been frequently 

 remonstrated with upon its danger, but he always insisted on its 

 being the most safe, maintaining that he could always turn an 

 elephant in its charge, by giving him a shot in the head. At the 

 same time he had a presentiment of his fate, from his having pre- 

 viously had several narrow escapes from elephants, but turned a 

 deaf ear to remonstrances and advice. " I cannot help myself," 

 said he, " when I get sight of the brutes, I seem to lose all appre- 

 hension." 



Our readers will remember Gordon Cumming's thrilling accounts 

 of lying in wait at night, ambushed in a hole near a water pit, to 

 shoot the wild animals when they came to drink. This is a plan 

 familiar to all South African hunters, and Mr Chapman often speaks 



