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£2,000 to the Wesleyan Missionary Society. 



£2,000 to the Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children. 



£2,000 to the Surrey County Hospital. 



£1,000 to the Metropolitan Convalescent Institution, "Walton- 

 on-Thames. 



£1,000 to the Charing Cross Hospital. 



£1,000 to the London Missionary Society. 



£500 to the Hurley House Training Institution. 



£200 to the Society for the Suppression of Vice. 



In addition, in his will he states, " To the following, as wor- 

 thy friends, some of them as brother E'aturalists, I give, with 

 my love, the following sums." These sums are in fifty-eight 

 bequests, the whole of which, together with those to Charitable 

 lustitutions, amount to £51,200. 



His entire Collection of Butterflies, together with the cabinets, 

 he left ''to the Trustees for the time being of the British Museum, 

 to be held upon and for the trusts and purposes of the said Mu- 

 seum, but subject to the following conditions, that is to say, that 

 the Collection shall be called or designed ' The Hewitson Collec- 

 tion,'' and shall be kept in good order, preservation, and condi- 

 tion, and in the same cabinets, and in the same order and 

 arrangement (except as hereinafter mentioned), and under the 

 same nomenclature as they shall be at the time of my decease, 

 until the expiration of twenty-one years from the time of my 

 decease ; and I hereby express my earnest wish and desire, but 

 not by way of condition, that after the expiration of the said 

 term of twenty-one years, the said Trustees of the British Mu- 

 seum will keep the said Collection in good order, preservation, 

 and condition, and in the same cabinets, and in the same order 

 and arrangement, and under the same nomenclature as they shall 

 be at the time of my decease, for a further period of twenty-one 

 years. Provided always, and I declare that if tlie bequest of my 

 Collection shall not be accepted by the Trustees for the time 

 being of the said Museum, subject to tlio conditions aforesaid, or 

 having been accepted, such conditions shall not at all times, un- 

 til the expiration of the said term of twenty-one years, be duly 

 observed, performed, and kept, then and from luMioofortli \ giv{» 



