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received by the governor and the public. He has also received 
a medal from the Vienna Geographical Society, and many dis- 
tinguished honors since reaching his native land. In an inter- 
esting notice published in the Atheneum (October 4, 1879,) Col. 
Yultes states that Dr. Holub has brought with him, besides a 
few surviving animals, forty-nine cases of collections containing 
minerals, fossils, botanical preparations, and herbaria, seeds and 
fruits, fishes, bird-skins, nests and eggs, reptiles and insects, includ- 
ing some thousands of beetles, horns and skins of fhammals, 
anatomical preparations, a large collection of ethnographic 
objects and a number of the famous “Bushmen engravings ” 
on stone, etc. There are, besides in Prague, fifty-six cases 
containing the fruits of the earlier journeys. There are also exten- 
sive topographical sketches, several hundred drawings of botanical, 
zoological and ethnological interest. Dr. Holub hopes to obtain 
funds in Europe to form an international expedition of twelve 
members from as many different nations for the special purpose of 
opening Central Africa towards the south and east, and to facili- 
tate the colonization of the district between the Vaal river and the 
Zambesi. The Royal Geographical Society has received a letter 
from Mr. Thomson in command of the expedition to Lake Nyassa 
dated August 30th, at Mkubwasanya, in Uhéhé, a tract of country 
north of the Kondi mountains, at an elevation of 6000 or 7000 
feet above the sea and about six days’ journey from Lake Nyassa. 
The London Missionary Society has lost another of its mem- 
