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University of Oxford in 1834. All his observations and 

 records were obviously most carefully made, and can be 

 implicitly relied on. 



Sir Andrew Smith. 



Andrew Smith, afterwards Sir Andrew Smith (1797- 

 1872), came to the Cape in 1821 as a medical doctor, in 

 the employ of the military, and remained in this country 

 for 16 years. He devoted a good deal of attention to natural 

 history, and was the hon. curator of the museum founded as 

 early as 1826 by the then Governor, Lord Charles Somerset. 

 In 1831 he made an expedition, accompanied by the botanist, 

 Drege, eastwards through Kaffirland and Zululand to Delagoa 

 Bay ; and in 1834 to 1836 another journey into the interior 

 to the head waters of the Orange River, in what is now 

 Basutoland, ^nd further north to the Lim]jopo. The results 

 of these journeys are described in the ' Illustrations of the 

 Zoology of South Africa,' completed in four volumes. 

 Of these the second, consisting of 114 plates, with corre- 

 sponding descriptive letterpress, is devoted entirely to 

 birds ; in it a large number of species are described for 

 the first time, while others are figured and more completely 

 defined and made known. 



The illustrations were published subsequently to Sir An- 

 drew's return to England ; where he became Director- 

 General of the Army Medical Department in 1853, resigned 

 on a pension in 1858, and died in 1872. 



Andersson. 



Charles John Andersson (1827-1867) was born in the 

 province of Wermeland in Sweden in 1827, and early 

 evinced a taste for natural history. Visiting England in 

 1849, he met Mr. Francis Galton, who was at that time 

 arranging for a journey to Lake Ngami, then only recently 

 discovered by Livingstone. Mr. Galton arranged to take 

 Andersson with him as his assistant and collector. Together 

 they landed at Walvisch Bay in August 1850, and spent two 

 years wandering about what is now German South-west 



