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204 attention are Ligon's History of Barbados, which was published in 1657; Hans Sloane's account of Jamaica, containing a large number of copperplates, illustrating the botany and natural history of the island; the two editions of Blome's Description of Jamaica, published respectively in 1672 and 1678; Davies's History of the Carribbee Islands, in addition to which there are many interesting works regarding the whole of the West India Islands, and including the Bahamas, British Honduras and British Guiana, the latter Colony being represented by 160 volumes and pamphlets, extending over a period of two hundred years, and including the writings of Bancroft, Schomburgk, Dalton, Bolingbroke, Brett and latterly of Darnell Davis, who has made a complete study of the early records of the West Indies, and im Thurn, who is the greatest living authority upon the interior of the country. The little Colony of the Falkland Islands has not been neglected, several works regarding this out-of-the-way possession being in the library, together with all the most important publications relating to exploration in the Antarctic Regions, where discoveries have been made which have added to the examples previously set by British seamen of patient and intrepid perseverance amidst the most discouraging difficulties. The Mediterranean Colonies or Dependencies, consisting of Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus occupy a separate section comprising seventy-seven works. For the botanical student there is a very comprehensive collection of the floras and botany of the various colonies, embracing the works of Aublet, Forster, Sweet, the floras of Ceylon, Barbados, Jamaica, Austral Africa, West Africa, the whole of Australasia, Hong-Kong, Canada, Mauritius, Bermuda, as well as Sir Joseph Hooker's Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of the "Erebus" and "Terror" in six volumes including New Zealand and Tasmania, the whole being illustrated with numerous coloured plates. There is also a collection of the poems of the principal Colonial writers beginning with Mr. James Montgomery's West Indies, a poem regarding the abolition of the slave trade, and those of Adam Lindsay Gordon, Kendall, Harpur, Domett, Brunton Stephens, Flanagan, &c., representing Australasia, Moodie and Pringle, the father of South African Verse, representing the Cape Colony, and Cameron, Duncan Scott, Sangster, Reade, and Roberts, the foremost name in Canadian song at the present day representing the Dominion of Canada. The remaining section of the library contains a collection of works upon the