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the “ Journal of Botany,” and other English journals, and 
to the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
of Philadelphia, 1896. The reports on the collections in 
the following branches of natural history do not appear 
in this book. 
Of birds there were 700 specimens. These have been 
examined by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, who has found no 
less than 24 species among them which were previously 
unknown to science. Of reptiles and batrachians there 
were over 300 specimens, of which, according to Mr. 
Boulenger, 11 were new. The plants collected numbered 
over 300 specimens; butterflies, over 1,000; mammalia, 
200; “orthoptera, 207; diptera, 130; - herniptera,. 262; 
neuroptera, 31, and hymenoptera, 160 specimens, all of 
which embraced many species new to science. 
NOVEMBER 24, 1896. 
Since writing the foregoing narrative I have observed 
that the political situation in Northeast Africa has so 
changed that I wish to add a few remarks concerning the 
future of Abyssinia and the remainder of the country 
included in the Anglo-Italian treaty of 1894. 
There can be little doubt that it is only a question 
of time when all of Africa will be divided among the 
European powers, and it is therefore a matter of the 
greatest international importance which country shall be 
the eventual possessor of Abyssinia and the country ad- 
jacent to it on the south and west. The crushing defeat 
of the Italians at Abba Garima, and the still more recent 
surrender of Italy’s claims in Abyssinia in consequence 
thereof to the Emperor Menelek leave the question of 
the future occupancy of the country between the Somali 
coast and the Nile open to all the powers. The Anglo- 
Italian treaty of 1894, in which Abyssinia and the country 
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