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A certain amount of binding has been done, but a very 
small fraction of what is required in order to overtake the 
vast arrears. 
A gift of peculiar interest has been made by Mr. Edward 
M. Langley, of Bedford, viz. the interleaved copy of Jussieu’s 
“Genera Plantarum” (ed. Usteri, Zurich, 1791), which was 
carried by W. J. Burchell in his travels in South Africa and 
in Brazil. The following words are written in Burchell’s 
handwriting on the inside of the cover :— 
“Hunc librum in itineribus suis 
in Africa australi annis 1810 ad 1815 
et in Brasilia annis 1825 ad 1830 semper 
secum habuit Gulielm™= Johan Burchell.” 
Many pencilled notes and numbers in Burchell’s hand- 
writing occur throughout the book, but the Latin inscription 
is in ink, and the writing so fresh and black that it must have 
been inserted late in the lifetime of the great naturalist— 
perhaps an indication that he foresaw the interest which would 
at some future date be felt in his lifeand work. The evidence 
derived from Burchell’s handwriting is confirmed by reference 
to page 165 of his “ Travels in the Interior of South Africa”’ 
(vol. i, London, 1822), where among “the contents of my 
waggon when it left Cape Town” on June 18, 1811, we find 
“Jussieu, Genera Plantarum, ed. Usteri.” 
The Hope Library contains a set of the publications of the 
Société Entomologique de France complete from the birth 
of the Society in 1832 until the death of Professor Westwood 
in 1892. The present Professor having recently become 
a life-member of the French Society, was entitled to receive 
10 volumes of the older publications, but not for the years 
which are wanting. This difficulty has been overcome by the 
generous decision of the Council, conveyed in the following 
statement by the Treasurer, Monsieur Ch. Lahaussois :-— 
“Jai le plaisir aujourd’hui ... de vous annoncer que le 
Conseil, par décision gracieuse, a décidé de vous remettre, 
non pas cinq années, mais les zo années d’Annales 1893, 4, 
