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We should have explored it, but had left Mr Macgregor Laird’s 
vessel in a sinking state. Funnel, furnace, deck, and bottom, all 
became honeycombed simultaneously. 
David Livingstone. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced:— 
Quarterly Return of Births, Deaths, and Marriages registered in 
Scotland — Quarter ending 31st December 1 859. 8vo. — From 
the Registrar-General. 
Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Seances de l’Academie des 
Sciences. Nos. 9, 10. 4to. — From the Academy . 
Monthly Notices of Astronomical Society. Vol. NX., No. 4. 8vo. 
—From the Society. 
List of Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 10, 
1860. 8 vo. — From the same. 
Journal of Proceedings of Linnean Society. Supplement to Yol. 
IV. — Botany. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Monthly Return of Births, Deaths, and Marriages registered in 
Scotland — January and February 1860. 8vo. — From the 
Registrar- General. 
Answer to Sir David Brewster’s Reply to Messrs Stevenson’s Pam- 
phlet on Sir David Brewster’s Memorial to the Treasury. By 
D. and T. Stevenson. Edinburgh, 1860. 8vo. — From the 
Authors. 
Descriptions of New Palaeozoic Fossils from the Western States. By 
J. H. M‘Chesney. Chicago, 1859. 8vo. — From the Author. 
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Yol. IV., 
Part I. 1860. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Maury’s Sailing Directions. 2 vols. 1858. 4to. — From the 
United States Government. 
Maury’s Wind and Current Charts. — From the same. 
Part of a Panoramic View of Kashmir Mountains. Sketched by 
T. G. Montgomerie, Bengal Engineers, to illustrate G. T. 
Survey of Kashmir. — From Prof. C. P. Smyth. 
Fac-simile of an Ancient Manuscript on Parchment in the Record 
Office, which has been copied and printed by Photo-Zincography 
at the Ordnance Survey Office. — From Colonel James. 
