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HISTORIAN'S ARCHIVES.

THIRTY YEARS' "HOARD.

A strange gift of self-hypnotisation, under the influence of which he believed For the Brst of a series of six Christ himself to be other people, hus by prefer- mas lectures, adapted to a juvenile ence King Edward VII, is given by the auditory, delivered at the Royal In historian, Karl Hauck, as an excuse for stitution, Mr. Frank Balfour Browne, plundering all the State archives of lecturer in Zoology (entomology)-Uni Europe. It was his custom to sit in rapt versity of Cambridge, took for his sub contemplation in the privacy of his study ject The Habits of Insects." In his before the autograph of one of the emin- introductory lecture, Mr. Browae dealt ent historical characters whom he loved with insect collecting and what it tends to personute until the lines of the sign. With many people, he said, insect ture had fixed themselves in his heale. collecting is merely an incident, like the Then he would try to initate it, and as measles. One catches the complaint from he did so he felt that his own person- someone. and usually recovers. Such ality was gradually being transfused into people could look back upon the time that of the great man whose name he when they shamelessly ran about with a was writing. butterfly net-a period in their life which they afterwards regretted. The broken and mouldy things of their collection were to be found from to time amongst the rabbish of the house, to remind them of their transient weakness Bat some never recovered from this complaint, and it was with the bope that many of those present might catch it that he wished to talk to them upen particular lines of work. Different collectors started, said the lecturer from diEerent motives, but he believe that the majority started from a desire to accumulate and possess something of their own: and like stamp collecting, insects were easy to get..

CRANK COLLECTORS.

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Unfortunately for Herr Hauck he did, not confine the use of the documents be had stolen to, this fantastic diversion. Some of them he also sold to dealers. and when the head of the Prussia State archives at Charlottenburg saw advertised" for sak a famous historical maanscript which he knew should be in the custody of his colleague at Vienna he ande in- quiries, and learned that it had been stolen. This discovery eventually took the police to Hauck's flat in Berlin, where

room was found filled to the ceiling with similar pilferings.

This extraordinary collecti i still being sorted, but already it is known to contain letters of King Edward. Frederick the Great. William of Orunge, and Frince Referring to what he termed crank" | Gortehnkoff, for all of whom the learned caflectors, one of whose whims was never thief seems to have had a special wenk.. to put into their collection anything they | nesa; many signed photographs, numier- had not caught themselves. Mr. Browne our impressions of historical seals, quanti- told story of his discovery of a parti- ties of manuscript, and the texts and cular water-beetle, which two coliertars scores of famous poets and musicians. To sajd had not been seen for 60 or 70 years, many of these spoils Hauck had added and they wanted to know where he found monographs and commentaries of his ową it. He pointed to two specimens in his composition. Hauck is now 37 years of aquarium, and offered them to his visi, age, and said that he had been engaged" tors; but they preferred to look for them in his depredations for thirty years. in the proper habitat. They returned. Under the pretence-which seem to have however, without success and eventually been not altogether false--that he was took out the specimens from the aqug writing comprehensive History of ring. Later, however, when they were German Culture." he obtained admission searching another pond, they took the to many of the most famous collections tubes containing the beetles and emptied of historical manuscripts. He is known to them in the water, in order that they have been allowed to work in the State might immediately capture them in archives at Loaden, Vienna. Brussels. The their net, and be able to say that they eught the specimens, themselves.

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agus nurid, and the Vatican. His visit to London, however, took place sonic

ears before the way.

One of the lines which all collectors took up as soon as they started collecting was tosing their specimens. Some never troubled to do this and sent them to an Authority to be named. One collector in Austrian

For fifteen years Hauck had been living with a mira younger man, who calls him. self Karl von Hohenlohe, and claims to belong one of the oldest families of the

the Souch of Scotland, who sent his that aristocracy, but about whom all

positively is that he used

specimens to Dr. Sharpe to be named to be a tailor's cutter. Their acquaint- would put them back in the wrong placesance was a chance one, and was made in in the box, which naturally led to some amusing mistakes,

GROUPING THE SPECIES.

a cffe of evil reputation. Hauck admits that their relations contained an exceed- ingly unodifying clertient, and it is sug- who sold the stolen manuscripts without gested as possible that it was Hohenlohe the knowledge of his patron. Early in. the war Hohenlohe was, made a prisoner bat. Hauck's influence at Rome was suf

ciest in secure his release. During his visit to the Vatican Hauek found! opportunity to appropriate a valuable golden hell, which was also found in his

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published nothing worthy of notice, be was well known among collectors, and claims to have been on terms of friendship with Hugo Stinaes.

THE SOLDIER OF TO-DAY.

The second line of work was the life history of insects, and many collectors got se interested in it that they cook up this line to the exclusion of cifer work. The third line was one which was before them when they started collecting, and was easily developed. They soon dis covered that the woods, the open Selds, and the marshes had their own parti-Sat. cilar inacts, which were distributed Although the thief appears to have about the country in a particular way Some were to be found in the mountains only, others in the valleys: so that they had a habitat, or localization, aerord ing to the immediate surroundings. Most of his own collecting had been con- fined to one group of insects, numely, water hetles, whose types differed with the nature of the water in which they lival. The lake, the river, and "the stream each possessed its different com munity, and by looking at the insect a collector would know whether it came from a pind, a river, or a lake.

When young collectors began to ask why were species capable of being grotip ed. they would be getting out of more collecting into its scientife aspret. He did not hop that they would develop ingo entomologists or butânists, but anyone who collected insects could leave behind him work which could be used by others in the way he had described. In his other lectures he would deal with the life history of ingrets which involved, shit Mr. Brownr. greater concentration and continuous work.

PRE-HUMAN AFRICA. LAND CONNECTION WITH SOUTH

AMERICA.

The main facts or probabilities im- pressed on a natural history student ia surveying the history of the mammalian fauna of Africa are four in number (says Sir Harry Johnston in the Nineteenth Century

1.The

early separation of Morocco and Algeria from Westeru Nigeria by an art of the set or an immense, expanse expans of shallow water.

That Egypt has been the main door of entry

to the African continent for its mammaling fauhn.

3. That there remains a curious gap in distribution (perhaps only of recent This occurs in Northern Zambezia Nyasaland-Mocambique

MAKES BREWERS WEEP."

British regiments in India are rapidly losing their bemedalled appearance. The Froutier medal is often the only one to be seen on the private's tunic, while men without ribbons at all are beginning to predominate in the ranks. Veterans they still are strongly in force in the of the war are disappearing, although Pommissioned and non-commissioned ranks.

A

different man from the old hard-bitten

What is the new soldier like "Tommy" he inakes brewers weep be- cause of the feebleness of his affection for alechofie liquor. Teraperance Association, finding its ce- The Royal Army expation gonc, "has ceased to function. More is done now to make bearable asperities of the soldiers the In the hot weather on the plaies from mid-morning till sundown, inactive in barracks, he must have occupation to keep his active brain from rebelling against connement. He reads more, thinks more, but essentially retains his predecessor' characteristics-2 love for

dog, and perhaps, tot too rigid a sense of propriety in acquiring one, a cheerful readiness to uphold the name of the British Raj" when popular ex çiteinent is expressed in riots, and an imperturbabit good humour blended with sternness on occasion in handling Indians.

Sometimes he gets into trouble, for he is

is more often exposed than his

pre- decessor ta. the provocative

racial rudeness of the half-baked politically. minded Indian. But on more than one, occasion lately he has been welcomed when bis arrival on the scene has restored

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bloodshed. He has hirouse" there Fortunate

hundredfeld glorious tradition than that maintained

origin) betweez East and South Africa. order therefore the right spirit.

In this intervening gap between the basin of the Ruiji River on the north and the whole course of the Zambezi River on the south, many striking genera species of mammals are hissing which are characteristic of East and of South Africa, There are no giraffes. no true gazelles, or oryx antelopes, no rhiauceroses, do ostriches, no secretary

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by those who, went before and div new traditions for him, be will we that those traditions stand.

THE INEFFICACIOUS EGG, The egg is smooth and very pale; no otocyon foxes, no black-backed. It has no nose, it has no tail;

It has no cars that one can ser;

ckland many other beasts and

birds characteristic of both South and It has no wit, no repartee. East Africa are missing-an altogether. unaccountable fact.

Ay

That during the Secondaries and up

If it were round or even squart,

Or aquat in contour like a por

to the middle of the Miocene Tertiaries it were green, or blue, or black; there must lays subsisted a broad land Or had a shell that did not crack: belt connecting West Africa with Brazil One would insure its belle tournur. and Guiana. This land belt-remains

of which are evident in the ses-bottom- Eggs are most futile, vanid things; is necessary to explain the remarkable They have no soul, they have no wings; similarity between the ancient fauna of The do not eat, they do not drink; Africa and Madagascar and that of They do not even try to think. Eastern South America,

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