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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 na- 

 turalists, 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 

 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 Royal Society of its brightest 

 ornament. 



