armadillo, the parrot; in North America the bison, the opossum which is curiously fashioned, the fox and the bear. Reference has been made to the striking similarity in arrangement and style of the descriptive titles of the Blaeu and the Hondius large World Maps. This similarity is further traceable literally in hundreds of details, forcing upon us the suggestion that Hondius borrowed extensively from Blaeu, since the map of the latter is of the earlier date. To but a few of the more striking evidences of borrowing, however, can attention here be directed. The fact is exceedingly interesting that many of the objects otherwise similarly drawn are reversed in position as represented on the maps. Blaeu turns the faces of his portraits of Magellan and Drake to their left, of Van der Noort and Candysch to their right; Hondius has reversed the position. Most of Blaeu’s ships sail in a direction opposite to that in which the ships of Hondius are made to sail, the location of the several ships being, however, practically the same on the two maps; the most ornamental compass roses are placed in identically the same positions; the dedications of the maps and the addresses to the reader are similarly placed in ornamental cartouches, which, however, in the details of their decorations differ slightly; each has a somewhat elaborate representation of the cannibals in eastern South America, but in their details the pictures are reversed. The line of the ecliptic passes south of the equator in the western hemisphere, and northward in the eastern hemisphere on the Blaeu map, and this Hondius has reversed; the position of Blaeu’s griffin and tiger in the heart of Africa has been reversed by Hondius. Not to extend such comparisons further, it may be stated that a study of the two maps with these similarities, even in minute details in view, can not fail to interest. May there not, therefore, have been good reason for Blaeu’s complaint expressed to the States General in 1608? In this, as before stated, he prayed for protection against those who were taking from his work without credit. [Illustration: [PRINTER’S MARK OF THE BLAEU PRESS]] BIBLIOGRAPHY AA, ABRAHAM JACOB VAN DER. Biographische woordenboek der Nederlanden. Haarlem, 1853. Vol. II, pp. 578-580. ANONYMOUS. W. J. Blaeu’s Antheil an der Bestimmung der Erdlängen. (Das Ausland. November, 1875. Stuttgart, 1875. Vol. XLVIII, No. 44, pp. 865-867.) ANONYMOUS. A Bibliographical Curiosity. (Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal. New Series. May 31, 1851. Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1851. Vol. XV, pp. 374-376.) Notice of Blaeu’s Atlas, 12 vols., 1667. BARENTSZOEN, WI. Nieuwe beschryvinghe ende Caertboeck vande Midlandtsche Zee waerin meercklick afgebeeld en beschreven worden alle custen vande Midlandsche Zee ... W. B. Amst., Corn. Claesz ... 1595.