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Wilford to the Japanese waters, of Vogel lo lhe Niger, of Masson and 

 Bowie lo lhe Cape; asserling with the long experience he has of these 

 aífairs that he has no record of a single expedition, ordered by lhe res- 

 pectivo Governments, in which the collections were considered as not 

 belonging to the Government, and in which lhe explorers had been al- 

 lowed to dispose olherwise of any part of them. 



With this abundance, if not excess of proofs, the cause was brought 

 beíore the Chancery at London lhe 22. "'^ May 1875. The Judge, accor- 

 ding to English judicial cusloms, before taking notice of the pleadings 

 and proofs in ali their paris, and only informed by the Porluguese Bill 

 claiming lhe collections and lhe opponent's flrst answer, thought pro- 

 per lo propose a compromise between lhe plainliff and the defendanls, 

 and adjourned Iherefore lhe canse in the hope of obtaining what was 

 thus proposed. However we were already aware of lhe impossibitily of 

 such a compromise by the eíTorts previonsly made to arrive, at an ear- 

 lier period, at such a conclusion of lhe whole affair, when lhe greater 

 trouble and the cost of lhe suit might have been spared. Proposals to 

 this end were forwarded to Lisbon, but they only revealed lhe already 

 used tactics of seeming to acknowledge Governmenfs right, promising 

 to deliver up lhe collections to il, and in fact not allowing us to hope for 

 a prompt surrendering of them. Pntling aside a mosl inconvenient pro- 

 posal made by the executors of lhe will, and which the advocates in 

 London of the Government in consultation were the first to abandon, 

 the following were lhe terms of the compromise which were sent to 

 Lisbon in the name of the advocates. 



1. His Majesty to have the study-set. 



2. The next set wiih a full copy of the notes to be given to the 

 Defendants. 



3. His Majesty to have ali the other seis of African plants. 



4. The Defendants to give up ali claim to the general Herbarium 

 and the Porluguese Herbarium belonging to Dr. Welwitsch which were 

 in Portugal at the time of his death. 



5. His Majesty to have the best set^ being complete in ali speci- 

 mens of the conchological and entomological paris, of Dr. Welwitsch 

 zoological collection. 



6. The plants other than the African plants now in the possession 

 of the Defendants, ali duplícales and furlher specimens of the concho- 

 logical and entomological collection now in possession of the Defen- 

 dants, ali the other zoological collections now in possession of the De- 

 fendants, and ali the books and scientific Instruments now in posses- 

 sion of the Defendants to be reclaimed by them. 



