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your interesting travels, to which natural history- 

 has already been so much indebted." And again, 

 " I am sorry you did not deposit some part of 

 your last harvest of birds in the British Museum, 

 that your name might become familiar to natu- 

 ralists, and your unrivalled skill in preserving 

 birds be made known to the public." And again, 

 " You certainly have talents to set forth a book, 

 which will improve and extend materially the 



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bounds of natural science." 



Sir Joseph never read the third adventure. 

 Whilst I was engaged in it, death robbed England 

 of one of her most valuable subjects, and deprived 

 the Eoyal Society of its brightest ornament. 



