¹ מיכאל בן אהרון בן אלי בן צבי הלוי, son of Henry Edward Goldsmid (1812‒1855), M.E.I.C.S., Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, who in 1845 married Jessie Sarah Goldsmid. Her paternal grandfather, Benjamin (Baruch) (1755‒1808) _ben_ Aaron (_ob._ 1782) Goldsmid was one of the pillars of Anglo-Jewry, and a noted philanthropist in the early days of the nineteenth century. Her father-in-law, Edward Moses (_ob._ 1853), on his marriage in 1804 to Rose (_ob._ 1851), a daughter of Elias Joachim, discarded his own, for the maiden surname of his mother-in-law Esther (_ob._ 1811), a sister of Benjamin Goldsmid. Maria [Mrs. Nathan Levien], another daughter of Elias Joachim, was the great-grandmother of Col. A. E. W. Goldsmid’s widow, one of whose daughters is Gladys Helen Rachel, the Baroness Swaythling of Swaythling in the county of Hampshire. Another active leader was Elim Henry _d’_Avigdor (1841‒1895).¹ By profession a civil engineer, he supervised the construction of railways in Syria and Transylvania, and of waterworks at Vienna. He was the author of several works in connection with his profession, and had literary leanings in other directions. Under the pseudonym “Wanderer,” he published many hunting stories of merit, for which he was well qualified, being himself an intrepid rider to hounds. At one time he was associated with _Vanity Fair_; and afterwards owned the _Examiner_, and subsequently brought out the _Yachting Gazette_. ¹ אדם בן שלמה בז יצחק שמואל, eldest son of Salomon Henri _d’_Avigdor (_ob._ 1870) by his wife Rachel (1816‒1896), third daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart., Barão _de_ Goldsmid _da_ Palmeira, of Portugal (1778‒1859) [son of Asher (1751‒1822), the elder brother of Benjamin Goldsmid] by his wife Isabel (1788‒1860), a daughter of his uncle, Abraham Goldsmid (1756‒1810). _d’_Avigdor was a personal friend of Napoleon III. (1808‒1873), who conferred upon him the titles of Comte d’Avigdor, and subsequently that of Duc d’Acqua-Viva. His father, Isaac Samuel Avigdor (1773‒1850), was secretary of the “Grand _Sanhédrin_” (1807) convened by Napoleon I. (1769‒1821), and represented the department of the “Maritime Alps” in that assembly. He was the author of “Discours Prononcé A L’Assemblée Des Israélites De L’Empire Français Et Du Royaume D’Italie”; Par J. S. Avigdor (De Nice), Secrétaire de L’Assemblée, Membre du comité des Neufs et du Grand _Sanhédrin_. Paris, De L’Imprimerie De Levrault Rue Mézières, 1807 (8º. 1 _l._ + 16 _pp._ [B. M.]) It may be noted here, that “A Jewish State,” issued in 1896, was the English translation by Sylvie, the third daughter of Elim H. _d’_Avigdor, of Theodor Herzl’s “_Judenstaat_.”