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Somerset; Mr. Owen Gibbons; the late Mr. Gavin Gatheral, Her Majesty's Vice- 

 Consul, Angora; His Eminence Cardinal Haynald, Archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary; 

 the Rev. A. W. Hubbard, American Missionary of Sivas, Asia Minor; the Rev. 

 J. W. C. Hughes, British Chaplain, Corfu; Mr. P. Henderson, Her Majesty's Consul, 

 Aleppo; Dr. Theodore de Heldreich, of Athens; Sir J. D.Hooker; the late Mr. I. 

 Anderson Henry, of Edinburgh; Mr. T. S. Jago, of Damascus; the Rev. G. C. Knapp, 

 American Missionary of Bitlis, Asia Minor; Sir John Kirk, Consul General of 

 Zanzibar; Dr. A. Kerner, Director of the Botanic Garden of Vienna; His Excellency 

 Sir A. H. Layard; Mr. Julius Ldytved, Danish Consul at Beyrout; Mr. C. C. Lacaita; 

 Mr. J. F. A. Maling, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at the Dardanelles; Mr. J. R. 

 Millengen, of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, Constantinople; Mons. C. J. de Maximowicz, 

 St. Petersburg; Major Murray, Ajaccio, Corsica; the Rev. W. Mackintosh, Damascus; 

 Mr. Noel Temple Moore, Her Majesty's Consul at Jerusalem; Herr J. B. Misselbacher, 

 Sen., of Schassburg, Siebenbiirgen ; Mr. W. Mc Pherson, of Seville; Miss M. C. 

 Owen, of Gorey, Ireland; Dr. J. A. Pasquale, Naples; Mr. J. Quintana, Her Majesty's 

 Vice-Consul, Syra; Dr. G. C. Raynolds, Medical Missionary, Van, Asia Minor; 

 Dr. Edward de Regel, St. Petersburg; Dr. G. Radde, Tiflis; Mr. F. N. Reid, Minori, 

 Ravello, South Italy; Senor Juan Rodriguez, Port Mahon, Minorca; Mr. H. N. 

 Ridley, of the British Museum; Mons. Smernow, Tiflis; Mons. S. Sommier, Florence; 

 Mr. John Saundars, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Cephalonia; Mr. T. B. Sandwith, 

 Her Majesty's Consul at Canea, Crete; Lieutenant Karl Studniczka, Cattaro, Dalmatia; 

 the Rev. Dr. T. C. Trowbridge, Am Tab, Syria; the late Chevallier de Tommasini, 

 of Trieste; Mr. W. E. Thursfield, C.E., of Vienna; Dr. Warion, of the French Army 

 Corps, Oran, Algeria; Mr. Horace P. White, Her Majesty's Consul at Tangier; 

 the Rev. E. F. Wayne, Malta; Mr. Th. Waldmeier, of The Friend's Mission, 

 Brumana, Am Salaam, Lebanon; Mr. T. Wood, Her Majesty's Consul at Patras; 

 Dr. M. Willkomm, of Prague; and Mr. James Zohrab, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul 



at Erzeroum. 



GEOllGE MAAV. 



Bcnthall, Kcnlcy, Sumy, June 30///., 1886. 



