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concealed many manuscripts and other archives which would not 

 only satisfy our curiosity about the man but would reveal historic 

 and scientific data. His portrait, in colors, was published in 

 Scudder's work on American insects, but in the same volume 

 Scudder says that no specimen of his autograph name was available. 

 The reproduction of an example of it with this paper and the in- 

 formation in the fine letter from which it is taken should be an 

 encouragement to our English brethren to "start something" in 

 this line of enquiry. Here are some queries : — Where was Abbot 

 born and when? When did he return to England and when de- 

 ceased? W T as he married, and a parent? Did he own land in 

 either country and keep house or board in lodgings? Where was 

 he buried, and is there any notice of his death in local newspapers 

 or in genealogies of Abbot families? 



If the correspondence and manuscript collections of Sir James 

 Edward Smith are preserved they will almost certainly yield some 

 of these desiderata. This accomplished botanist, author and patron 

 of science was founder and first president of the Linnsean Society of 

 London. As Smith owned the unrivalled autograph collections of 

 Linnaeus and of many of his celebrated correspondents, it is proba- 

 ble these treasures yet exist in the archives and are accessible to 

 students. 



Let us hear from them by return mail. 



List of John Abbot's Water Color plates of the " Birds of Georgia," 

 now bound in one folio, one-half red morocco binding, belonging 

 to the "Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library," 

 Wormsloe, near Savannah, Georgia. 



Copied from the plates and identified February, 1918, by S. N. 

 Rhoads, Haddonfield, N. J. (In the order of binding.) 



1. "White eyed Flycatcher. Muscicapa cantatrix, length 5 

 Inches" = Vireo griseus griseus, cf. 



2. "Flax Bunting — length 4^ inches." = Astragalinus tristis 

 trislis. (c? and 9 )• 



3. "Fowl Hawk"= Accipiter velox. 



4. "Toupet Titmouse. Parus Bicolor: length 6j inches." = 

 Bccolophus bicolor. 



