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of many difficulties, has been fully set forth in volume xix. 

 of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 

 (1909-10). His companions were Mr. R. E. Dent, the Hon. 

 Gerald Legge, Mr. Douglas Carruthers, and Mr. A. F. R. 

 Wollaston, all of whom ably assisted in securing the splendid 

 results achieved by this famous expedition. They reached 

 an altitude of 16,794 ft., the highest point, 16,815 ft,, being 

 subsequently conquered by the Duke of the Abruzzi. At 

 the conclusion of their work on the mountain in November, 

 1906, Woosnam and Dent returned home by the Ituri and 

 Congo route, and added more new and interesting specimens 

 to the huge collections from Ruwenzori already sent home. 

 On his return Woosnam read an interesting paper on 

 Ruwenzori before the Royal Geographical Society, and in 

 recognition of the signal services he had rendered to science 

 on this and other occasions the Zoological Society of London 

 awarded him their silver medal, and made him a correspond- 

 ing member in 1910. He was elected a member of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union in 1909. 



" Soon after his return to England Woosnam once more 

 accompanied Colonel Bailward on a trip to the Caspian Sea 

 and Elburz IMountains between February and May, 1907. 

 Excellent collections were made, and, as on the previous 

 occasion, presented to the British Museum, the birds being 

 recorded in the 'Ibis,' 1910, pp. 491-517. From this expe- 

 dition Woosnam returned in rather indifferent health ; the 

 sudden change from the Tropics to the high ground on the 

 Elburz had brought on an attack of dysentery and subsequent 

 colitis, from which he suffered for some time after his return 

 to England, and did not finally shake off till 1909, when he 

 returned to South Africa to explore the Kalahari Desert. 

 On that occasion he was accompanied by the Hon. Gerald 

 Legge, one of his companions on Ruwenzori. The principal 

 object of this journey was to make a collection of the fishes 

 of Lake Ngami, to which very special interest attached, as 

 the lake was rapidly drying up, and the extermination of 

 many of the peculiar species was probably only a matter of 

 a few years. Birds were not neglected, and an account 



