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topsail breeze, a breeze such that one expected every moment 

 to see a form like a butterfly's carried away helplessly before 

 it. And yet the butterflies had evidently started on their 

 migration with a consciousness of power to battle with the 

 opposing breeze, had already accomplished two-thirds or more 

 of their journey, and were continuing their course with no 

 uncertain rate of progress from the east to the west shores of 

 the Red Sea. Taken in this connection the fact kindly shown 

 me in the British Museum that certain patches on the east 

 and west shores of the lied Sea are the habitat of the same 

 butterfly is noteworthy. The structure of the butterfly pre- 

 pares us to expect that it wouhl be liable to be tossed about 

 by any wind that blows, rather than that it would be able 

 confidently to adventure a passage of several miles in the 

 very face of it, and across a sea where it could never alight 

 to rest." 



A discussion followed, Colonel 0. T. Bingham saying that 

 he had encountered a similar migration in the Red Sea. 

 Mr. Champion having suggested that apparent migrations 

 against the wind might be due to diverse air currents at higher 

 and lower levels, Colonel Bingham said that in this case there 

 could be no mistake as the butterflies were flying on a level 

 with the ship in Avhich he was at the time. 



Professor E. B. Poulton exhibited the original African 

 Journal written by W. J. Burchell, between May 24 and 

 September 2, 1812, both days inckisive. The account of 

 this part of his journey occupied the whole of a small note- 

 book bound iu sheep-skin, and still in the most beautiful con- 

 dition. In a lecture before the British Association at Cape 

 Town, on August 17 of last year. Professor Poulton had 

 mentioned the unfortunate loss of the journals in which 

 Burchell recorded a general account of his doings during the 

 five years (1810-15) in Southern Africa and the five (1825- 

 30) in Brazil. His classical work, "Travels in the Interior of 

 Southern Africa," does indeed give a complete record between 

 November 26, 1810, and August 3, 1812, — the day on which 

 he brought to a conclusion his first visit to Litakun, the 

 capital of the Bachapins, in what is now British Bechuanaland. 

 Mr. Mason, head-master of the Boys' High School at Ronde- 



