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Professor Newton, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited 

 tracings of some unpublished sketches of the Dodo and 

 other extinct birds of Mauritius, remarking : — 



" In the simimer of 1868 Mr. Hessells, an assistant 

 in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge, 

 informed me that, having lately been in Holland, he had 

 there been shown the original manuscript of a jom-nal 

 kept during the voyage of Wolphart Harmanszoon to 

 Mam'itius in 1601 — 1602, which was embellished by 

 drawings of the Dodo {Didus iupptus) and other birds. 

 The text of the journal I was told had been published, 

 but not so these sketches. I at once wrote to Professor 

 Schlegel, acquainting him with the fact ; and he replied 

 that his attention had been already drawn to this very 

 interesting volume, which, if I am not mistaken, belongs 

 to a library at Utrecht. He further told me that among 

 the birds represented were species which could be easily 

 identified as Aphanapteryx hroecld and Psittacns mcairitki' 

 nus, and added that he was preparing a memoir on the 

 subject. 



" I have naturally been most anxious ever since to 

 see these sketches or copies of them ; but expecting that 

 Prof. Schlegel would shortly carry out his intention, I 

 was careful not to interfere with his design, and contented 

 myself with inserting a short notice of the fact in the 

 ' Ibis ' for 1868 (pp. 503-504). I htiLve, however, waited 



