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Lobita Bay in Benguela, and proceeded up the projected 

 line of railway into the copper district of the Congo 

 Free State. Mr. Neave's last letters (15. 9. 07) were dated 

 at Kambove in Katanga, but he is now on his way to Fort 

 Jameson in N.E. Rhodesia. Fie has already sent home 

 about 450 bird-skins. 



Mr. Seth-Smith's Mission to Australia. — Mr. David Seth- 

 Smith, M.B.O.U., left London on Dec. 15th last for Australia. 

 In consequence of the importance attached to the exhibition 

 of Australian animals proposed to be held in the Gardens of 

 the Zoological Society of London in July next^ Mr. Seth- 

 Smith has been requested by the Council of the Society (of 

 which he is himself a member) to go out to Australia and 

 superintend the packing aiul conveyance to London of im- 

 portant collections of animals presented to the Society by 

 the Gardens of Australia and New Zealand. This he has 

 consented to do. As Mr. Seth-Smith is the owner of a fine 

 collection of living birds, and is, besides, Editor of the 

 ' Avicultural Magazine,' it is obvious that this important 

 mission could not have been placed in better hands. 



Yarrell's ^British Birds'' and Saunders' 'Manual.' — At the 

 last meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club (held on 

 December 18th) it was announced from the Chair that 

 shortly before his death the late Mr. Howard Saunders had 

 expressed a Avish that Mr. William Eagle Clarke, of the 

 Iloyal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, should be his successor 

 in the Editorship of any new editions of YarrelFs ' British 

 Birds' and Saunders' ' Illustrated Manual of British Birds' 

 that might be required. It was added that all documents 

 and papers relating to this subject had been transferred 

 by Mr. Saunders' executors to the custody of Mr. Eagle 

 Clarke, who had accepted the task offered to him by his late 

 friend. 



