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The other works in course of preparation are:

The second volume of the Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, as above described.

Gerrit de Veer's Account of William Barentzoon's three Voyages into the Arctic Ocean; with Illustrations. Edited by Charles T. Beke, Esq., Phil. D.

A Collection of Early Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland. Edited by Adam White, Esq., of the British Museum.

MENDOZA'S HISTORIE OF THE GREAT AND MIGHTIE KINGDOME OF CHINA. Translated by Parke. Edited by Sir George T. Staunton, Bart., M.P.

THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED BY SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, 1577-80. Written by Francis Fletcher, preacher, etc. Collated with a MS. by the same hand in the British Museum, containing additional unpublished details. To be edited by W. Sandys Vaux, Esq., M.A. This work will be illustrated with a copy of a very valuable unique Map in the British Museum, showing the tracks of Drake and Cavendish.

A COLLECTION OF EARLY DOCUMENTS, to form a supple- ment to the Narrative of Voyages towards the North West, by T. Rundall, Esq.

SOFALAH. The History of Eastern Ethiopia, by J. dos Santos, 1607. To be translated, and edited with notes, by W. Desborough Cooley, Esq.

The translation of De Morga's "SUCESOS EN LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS", has also been undertaken.

The Council have pleasure also in informing the Members that they have succeeded, through the instrumentality of their President, in procuring from Russia a copy of a MS. of great interest, which has never appeared except in the original language. It is from the hand of a Russian traveller named Nikitin, a native of Tver, who, about the close of the fifteenth century, started on a voyage to India, which country he traversed as far as the Deccan, returning home after an absence of about six years. The document was enrolled amongst the archives of the celebrated monastery of the Sviatroitskaia Serguieva Lavra, near Moscow. It is of no