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I. Report on the Botany of the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New. Guinea, 1912-18: — se 
By Henry N. RipLev, C.M.G., MA., PRS. PLS. Assisted by Messrs. 
E. G. BAKER, S. Moors; H. F. WERNHAWM, C. H. Wurenr, and others. With an 
Introduction by Mr. C. B. Kross. ci dee Da TE 
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(Plates 1-6.) 
Read 7th May, 1914. 
THE experience of the Expedition sent by the British 
1910-11 to New Guinea proved that it was not ; 
Snow. Mountains (Nassau Range) by way of the Mimika River. It ap 
Utakwa River, about 50 miles to the east, offered a better prospec | of suc 
F. R. Wollaston, who had been a member of the c 
fund, and through the getierosity of calling Que 
1912. The object of this second expedition, which was organis 
Mr. Wollaston, was to collect animals and au. study th ethnol 
cography of the part of the Nas 
as fortunate ir sedübino tia 
