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��NOTES BY THE WAY.

��1899, June 14th (Marquis of Salisbury).

Daughters of MlSS EMMA CAROLINE ARMSTRONG and MlSS JULIA AGNES ARM- Dr. Archibald STRONG

Armstrong.

" Jointly and to the survivor of them. In consideration of the labours of their late father, Dr. Robert Archibald Armstrong, the Gaelic lexicographer, and of their destitute condition. 251"

��Benjamin Harrison.

��Robert Drew

��1899, August 18th (Marquis of Salisbury).

MR. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

In consideration of his researches on the subject of pre- historic flint implements. 26?."

1900, March 21st (Marquis of Salisbury).

MR. ROBERT DREW HlCKS.

" In consideration of his services to classical scholarship and of the failure of his sight. 125Z."

Teacher at Trinity College, Cambridge ; known on the Con- tinent as well as in England for his work on Aristotle.

��Explorers.

Daughter of

John Lander.

��Widow of General Chesney.

��EXPLORATION.

1858, February 15th (Lord Palmerston). Miss MARY H. L. LANDER.

" In consideration of the eminent services of her father, the late Mr. John Lander, who died from the effects of the climate whilst exploring the River Niger, and of the straitened circumstances in which she was placed at his decease. 50Z."

John Lander (1807-39), African traveller; was by trade a printer ; died at thirty-two from a malady contracted in Africa (' D.N.B.,' vol. xxxii.).

1872, December 20th (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. LOUISA CHESNEY.

" Widow of the late General Chesney. In consideration of the services of her late husband in connexion with the Euphrates Expedition in 1835. 100?."

Francis Rawdon Chesney, 1789-1872, the explorer of the Euphrates, and founder of the Overland Route to India. It was on the strength of Chesney's report that De Lesseps, by his own frank admission, was first led to attempt the great enterprise of the Suez Canal (' D.N.B.,' vol. x.).

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