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guese Government, such as the Iter Angolense in several Journals, the 

 Geneve publications of Mr. De Gandolle, those of Mr. Bentham in Lon- 

 don, Reichenbach in Hamburg, Fenzl in Vienna, Morelet in Paris, and 

 others. Tliis is also coníirmed by the letters addressed to Mess/^ OUiver, 

 Hooker, and Saunders, writen from Loanda and Lisbon, and in which 

 the scientific commission of Dr. Welwitsch and the use to be made of 

 his colletions are only refered to as a Portuguese commission and Por- 

 tuguese property, in the most clear terms, Such a like declaration is 

 also to be read in the preface of the Sertiim Aiigolense, where he says. 

 «í iiow dedicate this to the most August King and to the people of Por- 

 tugal, whose very powerful aid, which during ali my journey was given 

 to me, I thus beg publicly and gratefully to acknowledge». 



If we are to add to these proofs those collected abundantly during 

 the pleadings, we musl cite the opinion of Dr. Saraiva, a Portuguese 

 lawyer of a very respectable character, who in his afíidavit asserts that 

 by the laws of his country the Angola collections are to be considered 

 wholly Portuguese property. We will mention the afíidavits of Baron 

 SanfAnna, Secretary to the Portuguese Legation in London, of Mr. Mi- 

 guel de Bulhões, chief accountant in the Marine and Colonial Office, who 

 by their official positions were much in the way of proving the Por- 

 tuguese nature of the expedition and its payment to Dr. Welwitsch. And 

 we will record our own to the same purpose. (V. affidavits of Dr. Sa- 

 raiva, Baron de SanfAnna, Dr. Gomes, Bulhões, and the account of pay- 

 ments made to Dr. Welwitsch by the Portuguese Government, inserted 

 in the proocedings). 



We shall allude also to the valuable testimonies kindly and spon- 

 taneously given to the cause of the Portuguese Government by the Di- 

 rector of Kew Gardens, Dr. J. D. Hooker, and the Keeper of its Herba- 

 rium, the distinguished professor Daniel Oliver, also by George Bentham, 

 the President of the Linnean Society, W. Saunders, the Director of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, the Bev. Milnes Joseph Berkeley, ali eminent 

 men in botanical science and who ali afíirm the right of the Portuguese 

 Government to the collections. Dr. Hooker instances the case of similar 

 expeditions ordered by the British Government, and the rules generally 

 coníirmed by practice, as regards the disposing of the collected objects. 

 He refers to the expeditions in which he was ordered to take part him- 

 self as a naturalist and which were directed to the antarctic region 

 and to Borneo, to those of AUan Cunningham in Austrália and Brazil, 

 those of Purdie in the West Indies and New Grenada, those of Milne 

 in Australasia, those of Barter and Mann in west Africa, of Oldham and 



