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Page 20: Footnote 10 A Campaign in the Kabylie. By Dawson Borrer, F.R.G.S., &c. London, 1848.
Page 47: Footnote 15 Expedition zur Entdeckung der Quellen des Weissen Nil, (1840-1841,) von Ferdinand Werne. Mit einem Vorwort von Carl Ritter. Berlin, 1848. La Kabylie. Par un Colon. Paris, 1846.
La Captivité du Trompette Escoffier. Par Ernest Alby. 2 vols. Brussels, 1848."
Page 63: Footnote 16 Annals of the Artists of Spain. By William Stirling, M. A. 3 vols. London: Ollivier.
Page 81: Footnote 19 The Dodo and its Kindred; or, the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. Strickland, M.A. F.G.S., F.R.G.S., President of the Ashmolean Society, &c., and A. G. Melville, M.D., Edinburgh, M.R.C. . One vol., royal quarto: London, 1848.
Page 112: Footnote 24 Memoirs and Adventures of Sir Wm. Kirkaldy of Grange, Knight, &c. &c. Wm. Blackwood &Sons, Edinburgh and London.