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7. £ 180 for arrears of salary to be paid to the Defendants. 



8. £ 500 in satisfaction for ali other demands to be paid to the 

 Defendants. 



9. Both these sums to be paid to the Defendants at the same time 

 as they hand over to His Majesly ali or the last of the coUections which 

 by this arrangement His Majesty is to receive. 



10. The set of African plants to be given to the Defendants to be 

 selected before the collections leave England by Mr. Hiern on the part 

 of the Defendants and some person to be nominated by His Majesty on 

 his behalf. The set of the conchological and entomological coUection to 

 be received by His Majesty to be selected by some person to be nomi- 

 nated by His Majesty on his behalf and some person to be nominated 

 by the Defendants on their behalf. 



In case of any diíference arising in the selection of either of these 

 collections an urnpire to be nominated by the Judge in Chambers to 

 decide. A room or rooms to be laken for the purpose of these selec- 

 tions. Each party to pay the person or persons appointed by them and 

 one half of the costs of the room or rooms; and lhe Defendants to pay 

 the costs of making their copy of the notes to the study set. 



11. This compromise to be embodied in a decree to be made in 

 the suit and His Majesty not to ask for costs. 



In such terms the zoological collections, which are as much Portii- 

 guese property as the botanical ones, would be delivered to the oppo- 

 nents; the study set would be ours, but it would be detained in Lon- 

 don and we should remain the whole time dependent for it on the good 

 pleasure of the executors of the will. We should have also to hire a 

 house in order to keep there the collections, and we should be obliged 

 to have somebody appointed as a keeper or representativo of our inte- 

 rests by them, but really a mere dependant of the executors of the will. 

 And we should have still to pay ourselves the costs of our opponents 

 in the suit. The advocates Ihus thinking we might gain to our advan- 

 tage a justice which is simply due to us, are the same who hava 

 named our case a strong one; and their proposed compromise means 

 only that their good faith was put to a trial, just as it happened with 

 me when I was in London, there being still a hope to render illusory 

 that justice which is not denied to us. In such terms, the proposals were 

 rejected by the Marine Department, who ordered, the full right to the 

 collections to be further claimed, and a prompt delivery of them to be 

 soUcited from the Court. 



A collection of Angola plants, chosen from the best, has been 



