Society, the other day, the President, Sir Clements Markham, was able to make' the pleasing announcement that Mr. Llewellyn Longstaff, a well-known merchant and scientist, had given equipment of the Nati pedition. This ensures the successful launching "f the enterprise, though the Royal Geographical Society still hope to induce the Government to make a subial grant to. the expedition. Mr.
ut Stuckey Lean, a wealthy Bristol man, and a barrister, who died recently, ft £59,000 for the improvement and n_of the library and reading town Museum, as well as to the public libraries of Britain and sever other legacies towards public and philanthropie purposes.
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