726 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant : Boyd Alexander 



and accompanied only by his faithful Portuguese collector, 

 Jose Lopez, Alexander pushed on across Africa by way 

 of the Shari and Welle Rivers, and surmounting all dangers 

 and difficulties eventually arrived safely at Khartum. The 

 details of this great journey are still fresh in the memory 

 of most of us, the story having been graphically told by 

 Alexander in two large volumes bearing the title ' From the 

 Niger to the Nile.' 



On the 13th of May, 1907, he gave an account of this 

 Expedition before the Royal Geographical Society at 

 Burlington Gardens, where he received a most enthusiastic 

 reception, and his graphic account of his journey with 

 its triumphs and misfortunes, told in the simplest language, 

 will not easily be forgotten by those who were present. [Cf. 

 Geographical Journal, xxx. pp. 119-152 (1907).] 



For his geographical discoveries Alexander received the 

 Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp 

 in 1907, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society of London in 1908 ; he was also elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland 

 m 1907. 



The ornithological results of this great journey have not 

 yet been published, for though Alexander had partly written 

 two papers on the Birds, he had finished neither of them when 

 he started on this last journey. The new species, however, 

 some 29 in number, Mere described in the Bulletin of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club, volumes xix., xxi., and xxiii. 



One of the memorable incidents of this Expedition was 

 the capture of an adult Okapi, which after being hunted for 

 many days was shot by Jose in the Welle Forest. This 

 interesting specimen was mounted by Messrs. Rowland Ward 

 & Co. and presented by Alexander to the Natural History 

 Museum, where it may now be seen in the Eastern Corridor, 

 over the Great Hall. 



Boyd Alexander's name will ever be associated with the 

 history of Lake Chad, and it was near that Lake that he 

 ultimately met his fate and where his body lies buried. On 

 his return from the Alexander-Gosling Expedition he found 



