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Moresby on May 19th, and would return with his birds 

 straight to England in order to prepare for the new ex- 

 pedition into Central New Guinea, which was announced 

 in our number for January (see above, p. 194). The pre- 

 parations for this expedition are well advanced, although it 

 will not start so early as was originally intended. Mr, 

 Goodfellowand the other members of the expedition will leave 

 in October next for the Kei Islands, south of New Guinea, 

 where all the necessary preparations will be made. When 

 everything is ready, the expedition will move on to the coast 

 of Dutch New Guinea, and make their actual start into 

 the interior, towards the Charles Louis Mountains, early in 

 January. A base camp will probably be formed on the 

 foot-hills of the mountains. 



It has been definitely arranged, as announced in ' The 

 Times' of May 29tl), that a survey-party shall accompany 

 the expedition, under the leadership of Captain C. G. 

 Rawling, who has just been awarded the Murchison Grant 

 by the Royal Geographical Society for his excellent work 

 in Western Tibet. The expenses of this pai't of the work 

 will be defrayed by the Royal Geographical Society. 

 Captain Rawling will be accompanied by at least one assis- 

 tant, who has taken the society^s diploma in surveying with 

 distinction. Captain Rawling himself will probably proceed 

 to India in September, in order to engage some Ghurkas, 

 who will accompany the expedition as a guard. It is hoped 

 that Captain Rawling's party will be able to make a satis- 

 factory survey of the magnificent range of snow-capped 

 mountains which stretch for a very great distance through 

 the southern part of Dutch New Guinea. 



Mr. A. S. Neave's Second Earped'ition to South Africa. — 

 In January 1908 (see ' Ibis/ 1908, p. 203) we announced 

 that Mr. Neave had left England on a new expedition to 

 Southern Congo-land and Rhodesia. Mr. Neave, who has 

 now returned home, spent nearly the whole of 1907 in the 

 Katanga District of the Congo Free State, and visited the 

 upper portions of the Lufira, Lualaba, and Lubundi Rivers. 

 The last is not far from the frontier of Angola. After 



