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_OTHER BENEFACTORS OF RECENT DAYS._

_Recent Contributors to the Natural History Collections.—The Duke of Blacas and his Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquities.—Hugh Cuming and his Travels and Collections in South America.—John Rutter Chorley, and his Collection of Spanish Plays and Spanish Poetry.—George Witt and his Collections illustrative of the History of Obscure Superstitions.—The Ethnographical Museum of Henry Christy, and its History.—Colonial Archæologists and British Consuls: The History of the Woodhouse Collection, and of its transmittal to the British Museum.—Lord Napier and the Acquisition of the Abyssinian MSS.—The Art Collections and Bequests of Felix Slade.—The Travels and the Japanese Library of Von Siebold_ 686

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