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leaf in the Venetian Catalogue of 1554, signature, which was defective in my copy, and for which a leaf of explanation was substituted, has been most kindly and unexpectedly supplied by an individual, with whom I am thus happy to become acquainted, — Friederick Lorenz Hoffman, Doctor of Laws and Censor, in Hamburg, who possesses a perfect copy of the Catalogue, and has had the goodness to send me enclosed in a very friendly and flattering letter, a transcript of the leaf absent from mine, and which is now printed. The letter is dated April 21, 1842, just a fortnight before the commencement of the calamitous conflagration at Hamburg; from which, I trust to hear my friend and his books have escaped.

The name Daczer, which disappears in the Catalogue of 1559, and in all subsequent, is, I have no doubt, agreeably to the conjecture of Mr. Bohn, who has rendered me important assistance relative to the above communication, Decanus Pataviensis (Passau), who does appear in the next and later Catalogues; and Gigas Nortus amoy (so printed) should, as evidently, according to the correction of