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examples of Paradisornis rudolphi, Astrarchia stephanice, and 

 Epimachus meyeri, and is now making preparations for the new 

 Expedition to the Charles-Louis Mountains. He hopes to be 

 able to start about the end of this month, and to be landed on 

 the coast of New Guinea early in the following January. He 

 will be accompanied by Captain Rawling as Surveyor and 

 Dr. Eric Marshall as Assistant-Surveyor (who are delegated 

 by the Royal Geographical Society to map this utterly 

 unexplored country), Mr. A. F. E,. Wollaston as Medical 

 Officer and Botanist, and two taxidermists, Mr. G. C. Short- 

 ridge and Mr. W. Stalker. 



The Committee of the B. O. U., who superintend the 

 arrangements for the Expedition, consist of Dr. F. D. Godman 

 (Chairman), Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant (Secretary), Mr. C. E. 

 Fagan (Treasurer), Dr. Sclater, and Mr. Meade-Waldo. 



It will be recollected that the scheme o£ the Expedition 

 was originally brought before the Special Jubilee Meeting 

 of the B. O. U., hehi on December 9th, 1908, by Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, and unanimously approved (see 'The Ibis,' 1908, 

 Jubilee Supplement, p. 12 ; also Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's appeal 

 for assistance, ' Ibis,' 1909, p. 194). 



News of Mr. Boyd Alexander. — After finishing his work 

 in the islands of the Gulf of Guinea and on the Peak of 

 Kamerun (see above, p. 564), Mr. Alexander went to the 

 Maninguba Range in the interior of Kamerun, where he 

 stayed for two weeks. In a letter to his father, which we 

 have been kindly allowed to see, this is described as a very 

 interesting mountain with two crater-lakes on its summit. 

 His collecting work being now finished, Mr. Alexander 

 determined to visit Lake Tchad again, '' to see what it looks 

 like in the rainy season," and went straight across country 

 to Ibi, on the Benue. Thence he took one of the Niger 

 Company's steamers up to Yola, where his letter was dated 

 on August the 20th. A few days after that he was in- 

 tending to start on a fifteen days' march to Maifoni, and 

 thence to prosecute his tour round Lake Tchad. After that 



