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bon was again issued, signed by the Marquez de Sá da Bandeira and 

 dated 22"*^ Oct. 1870, and with it were forwarded to him the last 

 £ 60 he has received. Having had, as it has been said, every thing 

 ready packed for tliis return, he still found himself embarrassed in his 

 final resolution (as was usually indeed the case with him) and so he re- 

 mained in London till his death two years afler this second order to re- 

 turn had been issued. 



With the news of his death carne aiso the surprising announcement 

 of a will made in his last momentS;, in which he disposed of the coUec- 

 tions, as if they were his own properly, of the books, instruments and 

 other objects he had in London and in Lisbon at the Austrian Consulate. 

 The will is as foUows. (V. Doe. 17 of the procedings). 



«Will of Dr. Welwitsch dated 17'*^ Oct. 1872. 



«The last Will of Dr. Frederick Welwitsch, of n.° IS Fitzroy Street, 

 London, Botanist and Naturalist. I appoint as executors the followinj^ 

 Frederick Justen^ 37 Soho Square, William Carruthers, of the Brilish 

 Museum, Dr. Schweinfurth, of Berlin, Mr. Hiern, of Kew Gardens. The 

 above named after my death to take a room and to distribute my coUec- 

 lions of plants, coleoptera and scientific instruments in the following 

 manner. Firstly my study copy of African Plants to be offered to the Bri- 

 tish Museum at the rate £ 2 10 s. per century (100 species) subject to one 

 set of Mosses being first selected therefrom and given to Mr. Duby of 

 Geneva. Two sets to the Portuguese Government grátis. One set to Dr. 

 Schweinfurth of Berlin grátis. One set to Professor A. de Candolle of Ge- 

 neva grátis, One set to the Botanical Museum at Vienna grátis. One set to 

 the Botanical Museum at Paris grátis. One set to the Botanical Museum at 

 Copenhagen grátis. One set to the Imperial Natural History Museum at Rio 

 de Janeiro grátis. One set to the Museum of Carinthia in Áustria grá- 

 tis. One set to the English Government for the use of Kew Gardens grá- 

 tis. Secondly my study copy of my African Entomological CoUections 

 and the first choice (one of each description) of my African Moliusca as 

 an oíTering to lhe Zoological Museum at Lisbon grátis. A set of Afri- 

 can Coleoptera and a set of African Moliusca to Dr. Peters at Berlin as 

 a token of grateful remembrance grátis. A set of African Coleoptera and 

 Moliusca to the Museum of Carinthia grátis. AU books^ scientific instru- 

 ments, Bats Hierax, and other zoological objects to the Zoological Mu- 

 seum at Lisbon as an offering grátis. I authorise my executors to sell 

 the surplus copies remaining of the African Collection of Plants and In- 

 sects and to hand over the moneys arising from the sale to the Portu- 

 guese Government for lhe purpose of endowing the oCQce of a Conser- 



