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expect to learn much from the results of their 

 expeditions. 



In the course of the next few months also we 

 may well hope that the party sent out by our Union 

 under Mr. Walter Goodfellow's guidance, though 

 its progress has been hitherto somewhat slow, will 

 have established itself high up in the mountains of 

 Central New Guinea, and will have sent us some 

 intelligence of the natural products of what is 

 believed to be the largest unexplored area on the 

 world's surface except the Polar circles. 



P 

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Offices of the 

 Zoological Society of London, 

 Regent's Park, 



London, N.W., 



October ].st,r. ) 10. 



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