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edition, which was not published. Another remarkable 

 curiosity is the challenge of Mang von Hapsberg and others, 

 in the name of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, to Count 

 Eberhard of Wurtemberg, with the latter's reply, printed in 

 1480. 



Donations. — The Library has received as donations an 

 extensive collection of colonial newspapers presented by the 

 Colonial Office ; and another in continuation of former annual 

 donations, from the Royal Colonial Institute : The Sydney 

 Atlas, 1844-46, a journal to which the late Robert Lowe, 

 Viscount Sherbrooke, was a leading contributor, with manu- 

 script notes by him ; presented by Lady Sherbrooke : eight 

 volumes of newspaper cuttings relating to the death of Pope 

 Pius IX., presented by F. Justen, Esq. : Secretary Stanton's 

 proclamation offering 100,000 dollars reward for the apprehen- 

 sion of the assassins of President Lincoln, presented by 

 Colonel H. S. Olcott : proclamations and handbills issued 

 during the Vienna revolution of 1848, presented by Lady 

 Arthur Russell : and a large number of publications relating 

 to Labour, presented by the Royal Labour Commissioners, in 

 the course of whose proceedings they were collected. 



Maps. — The principal accessions to the collection of maps 

 have been the following : Recueil de Portulans, public par 

 Gabriel Marcel, Bibliothecaire a la Bibliotheque Nationale. 

 (Section des Cartes). 2 Livraisons. Paris, [1890?] fol. ; con- 

 taining facsimiles of Mappemondes by Nicolas Desliens, 1566, 

 and Jehan Cossin, 1570 ; of the " Portulan de Guillaume 

 Soleri," 1385 ; and of the " Carte de Matteo Prunes," 1586 ; 

 also of six sections from the ''Atlas de Diego Homem," 1559. 



Reproductions de Cartes et de Globes relatifs a la 

 decouverte de I'Amerique, du XVI.® au XVIII.® siecle ; avec 

 texte explicatif par G. Marcel. E. Leroux : Paris, 1893, fol. 

 and 4°. 



Facsimile of twelve segments for a small Terrestrial Globe, 

 4^ inches in diameter. Probably designed (circa 1518) by 

 Peter Apianus, Professor of Astronomy at Ingolstadt. 



A series of eight large " Carte Storiche d'ltalia, compilate 

 dal Prof. Pietro Ravasio," G. B. Paravia, comp. : Torino, 

 Roma, etc., 1894. 



A Russian Map, in 4 sheets, of North-East China. Scale t 

 1 inch = 18^ English miles. By K. Weber. With alphabetical 

 index. St. "Petersburg and Vienna, 1892-94. 



An English edition of the above map, in 4 sheets. L. 

 Friederichsen & Co. : Hamburg [1894]. 



Music. — The accessions to the collection of Music have 

 been more than usually important. The most valuable acqui- 

 sition was a copy of the " Motetti de Passione," printed by 

 Petrucci at Venice in 1503. Of this M^ork, the sixth printed 

 by Petrucci with his newly-invented types, only one other 



copy 



