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Lorp Roruscuitp exhibited the following books and 
pictures :— 
(1) A book of drawings of birds, attributed on the manu- 
script titlepage to Giovanni da Udine, a pupil of Raffael, 
but the water-marks on the paper prove the drawings to 
have been made between 1567 and 1580, whereas Giovanni 
da Udine died in 1564. 
The interest in these drawings lies in the fact that 29 of 
them form the originals of woodcuts in Aldrovandi’s great 
work, ‘Ornithology’ voi. i. (1599). Moreover, the added 
special interest consists in the fact that among these 29 
drawings are the originals of Aldrovandi’s Manueodiata 
prima et secunda, thus forming probably the earliest drawings 
of Birds of Paradise known. 
(2) Aldrovandi’s ‘ Ornithologiz,’ vol.i., to show the repro- 
duced woodcuts of above. 
(3) Gesner’s ‘Thierbuch,’ 1583, showing the Ostrich as 
conceived by him and also the oldest drawing of the Wood- 
Ibis (Comatibis eremita), Linn. 
(4) A copy of the extremely rare‘ Avium Precipuarum,’ 
by Dr. William Turner, 1544, about the first book on birds 
by an Englishman. 
(5) ‘Avium Vive Icones,’ by Adrian Collaert, 1580- 
1590. Interesting as being the first figure of the Avis 
indica, “Le Geant,” on Legnatia, the Giant Rail of 
Mauritius. 
(6) Frauenfeld’s book ‘Neu Aufgefundene Abbildung 
des Dronte’ (1868). The two plates are copies of drawings 
in the Imperial Library in Vienna, done from life at the 
Royal Menagerie at Schoenbrunnen of a Mauritius Red 
Rail (Aphanapteryx) and a young Bourbon Dodo (Didus 
borbonica). 
(7) ‘ Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes,’ vol.i., by Cor- 
neille Nicolas, showing pictures in Van Neck’s voyage and of 
men hunting the Dodo and Giant Tortoises on Mauritius. 
(8) Clusius’s ‘ Exoticorum Libri Decem,’ 1605. On p. 98 
is one of the first-known pictures of the Cassowary ; on 
p- 100 the figure of the Dodo, after Van Neck; and on p. 101 
