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ADAMS, C. WARREN. A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement. By C. Warren Adams. London, 1853.

BARKER, LADY. Station Life in New Zealand. By Lady Barker. London, 1870.

With MS. note by H. F. Jones, referred to in the _Memoir_ of Butler. F. Napier Broome and his wife, then Lady Barker, had a run near Butler's in New Zealand.

BASLER JAHRBUCH. See Faesch, Hans Rudolf.

BATESON, WM. Biological Fact and the Structure of Society: The Herbert Spencer Lecture (p. 19). Oxford, 1912.

BATESON, WM. Problems of Genetics (Silliman Lectures). By Wm. Bateson, F.R.S. New Haven, 1913.

BUTLER, JAMES. Copies of Letters by Ensign James Butler (an uncle of Dr. Butler) sent from Deal, Funchal, and Calcutta, 1764-1765; with Introduction by H. F. Jones, all in typewriting and MS.

James Butler and these letters are referred to in the _Life of Dr. Butler_, and also in the _Memoir_ of Butler. Butler gave to the British Museum an incomplete copy of the Letters and kept another incomplete copy which I gave to the British Museum. Each of the incomplete copies contained matter not in the other. I had this volume (now at St John's) made up from the two incomplete copies.

BUTLER, HENRY THOMAS, and another. Auction Bridge in a Nutshell. By Butler and Brevitas--the Butler being Henry Thomas Butler, nephew of Samuel Butler. [1913].

BUTLER, MARY. A Kalendar for Lads. 1910. Compiled by Butler's sister, Mary Butler, and dedicated to her great-nephew, Patrick Henry Cecil Butler (son of her nephew, Henry Thomas Butler).

Referred to in the _Memoir_ of S. Butler. Given to me by Miss Butler.

BUTLER, SAMUEL, D.D. A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography for the Use of Schools. By Samuel Butler, D.D. A new edition revised by the Rev. Thomas Butler, M.A., F.R.G.S. London, 1872.

Referred to in Butler's _Life of Dr. Butler_ and also in the _Memoir_ of Butler.

BUTLER, REV. THOMAS. See Butler, Samuel, D.D.

CLARKE, CHARLES. The Beauclercs, Father and Son. By Charles Clarke. 3 vols. London, 1867.

Referred to in Butler's _Life of Dr. Butler_, also in the _Memoir_ of Butler, who saw the book in the British Museum. I bought this copy second-hand on an open-air bookstall in Paris.

DREW, MARY. Catherine Gladstone. By her Daughter, Mary Drew. London, 1919.

With letter from the Authoress to H. F. Jones, 20 Jan. 1920.

DUDGEON, ROBERT ELLIS. Colymbia. London, Trubner, 1873.

No author's name is given, but the author was Dr. Robert Ellis Dudgeon, the well-known homoeopathic doctor and friend of Butler. Referred to in the _Memoir_ of Butler.

FAESCH, HANS RUDOLF. The Easier Jahrbuch, 1906.

Containing Letters from the East by Hans Rudolf Faesch, who is referred to in _The Note-Books of Samuel Butter_ and also in the _Memoir_.

FIGHTING MAN IN FICTION, THE. Woodville, N.Z. (1917?)

A New Zealand pamphlet with letter from and photo of E. C. Chudleigh, who sent it to me and who knew Butler in New Zealand.

FRANCATELLI, C. E. The Cook's Guide. By Charles Elme Francatelli. London, 1865.

"I believe you could read Francatelli right through from beginning to end without being moved in the smallest degree." Miss Savage to Butler (1877). _Memoir_ I. 246.

GALLONI, PIETRO. Sacro Monte di Varallo. Atti di Fondazione. By Pietro Galloni. Varallo, 1909.

With two post cards from Galloni to H. F. Jones.

GALLONI, PIETRO. Sacro Monte di Varallo. Origine e Svolgimento. By Pietro Galloni. Varallo, 1914.

With two letters from Galloni and one from R. A. Streatfeild to H. F. Jones.

GROSVENOR, THE HON. MRS. RICHARD CECIL. Physical Exercises for Women and Girls. By the Hon. Mrs. Richard Cecil Grosvenor. Additional exercises, loose, accompanying. 1903.

She was formerly Mrs. Alfred Bovill, daughter of Charles Clarke, the author of _The Beauclercs_, _Father and Son_ (see above). She is mentioned in Butler's _Life of Dr. Butler_ and in the _Memoir_ of Butler.

HELPS, ARTHUR. See Victoria, Queen.

HERING, EWALD. Memory. Lecture on the Specific Energies of the Nervous System, by Professor Ewald Hering, University of Leipzig. English translation. The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago and London, 1913.

Inscribed "H. Festing Jones, with best wishes from John F. Harris, August 31, 1915." Cf. Butler's translation of the Lecture on Memory in _Unconscious Memory_.

HUTTON, FREDERICK WOLLASTON. The Lesson of Evolution. By Frederick Wollaston Hutton, F.R.S. 2nd ed. 1907.

KING, REV. S. W. The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps. By the Rev. S. W. King. London, 1858.

Referred to in _Ex Voto_. Near the beginning of this book Mr. King speaks of Varallo-Sesia.

LARKEN, EDMUND PAUL. The Pall Mall Magazine, May 1897, with "The Priest's Bargain," a story by E. P. Larken.

Butler gave Larken the plot for this story. See _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, pp. 235-6.

LE DANTEC, FELIX. Lamarckiens et Darwiniens. Par Felix Le Dantec. 3e ed. Paris, 1908.

LYTTON, EDWARD, LORD. The Coming Race. London, 1886.

Referred to in the _Memoir_ of Butler.

NOTES AND QUERIES, 2 April 1892. Containing article, "Took's Court and its neighbourhood," with plans and illustrations, including Clifford's Inn, Barnard's Inn, and Staple Inn.

PALL MALL MAGAZINE, THE. See Larken, E. P.

SIX "RED ROSE" PAMPHLETS. 1913-1916.

REINHEIMER, HERMANN. Symbiogenesis, the Universal Law of Progressive Evolution. By Hermann Reinheimer. London, 1915.

See, especially, chap. vii.--Psychogenesis.

RUSSELL, E. S. Form and Function. London, 1916.

Ch. xix--"Samuel Butler and the Memory Theories of Heredity."

SALT, H. S. Animal Rights. London, 1894.

With MS. note by H. F. Jones.

SLADEN, DOUGLAS. Selinunte and the West of Sicily. By Douglas Sladen. London, 1903.

SMYTHE, WILLIAM HENRY. Memoir descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography of Sicily and its Islands. By Captain William Henry Smythe, R.N., K.S.F. London, Murray, 1824.

SMYTHE, WILLIAM HENRY. The Mediterranean. By Rear-Admiral Wm. Henry Smythe, K.S.F., D.C.L. London, Parker, 1854.

These two books by Admiral Smythe were wanted for _The Authoress of the Odyssey_. Butler saw them in the British Museum; I bought these copies.

TRIPP, ELLEN S. My Early Days. By Ellen Shephard Tripp. Timaru, N.Z., Joyce, 1915.

With letter to H. F. Jones from Leonard O. H. Tripp, of New Zealand.

VICTORIA, H.M. QUEEN. Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands. Edited by Arthur Helps. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868.

VICTORIA, H.M. QUEEN. More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1884.

"Visit to Inveraray . . . and after lunch we went into the large drawing- room next door to where we had lunched in 1847, when Lorne was only two years old. And now I return, alas! without my beloved husband, to find Lorne my son-in-law!" This passage, which occurs on page 291, is referred to, with a comment, by Miss Savage in a letter to Butler, 18th Nov. 1884. (_Memoir_ I. 429.)

WARD, JAMES. Heredity and Memory. By James Ward. Cambridge, 1913.

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