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district of Cape Colony, Becliuanaland, the Orange River 

 Colony, and the Vaal River. The collection from Kurnman 

 was of special interest, for it included typical examples of 

 many of the species described by Sir Andrew Smith after 

 liis early explorations in 1834-6. Most of Smith's types 

 had been purchased by the British Museum at his sale in 

 1838, but the species were very imperfectly represented in 

 tbe national collection, and this fresh material was therefore 

 of special value. 



" On his return to England in 1904 I met "Woosnam, and 

 spent many delightful days with him talking over plans for 

 future exploration while he was writing out his field-notes 

 on the birds collected in South Africa. His was, indeed, 

 an unusually pleasing personality, which at once attracted 

 all with whom he came in contact. Good to look at, tall, 

 rather slight, and cleanly built, full of life and energy ; add 

 to these physical attractions the finest character imaginable, 

 strong, delightfully modest and simple, transparently honest. 

 Altogether a man on whom one could absolutely rely on all 

 occasions. As a skilled field-naturalist and taxidermist he 

 had few equals, and few could handle a gun or rifle better, 

 wbile in all sports requiring" field-craft or skill he was 

 proficient. 



" In the early part of 1905 Woosnam accompanied Colonel 

 A. C. Bailward on a journey from the Persian Gulf through 

 western Persia to Armenia and across that country^ to the 

 Black Sea. The fine collections of mammals and birds 

 formed by him were presented by Colonel Bailward to the 

 British Museum, and an account of the birds by Mr. H. 

 Witherby with Woosnam's field-notes appeared in the ' Ibis', 

 1907, pp. 74-111. On his return from Persia he immediately 

 joined me in making the final arrangements for a long con- 

 templated exploration of the great range of mountains in 

 Equatorial Africa known as Ruwenzori or the •" mountains 

 of the Moon,' which had long attracted the attention of 

 naturalists in all parts of the world. In Woosnam I found 

 an ideal leader. The record of this great undertaking, 

 which was so ably and successfully carried out in the face 



