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IX. — Occasional Notes. 



(1) Mr. W. L. ScLATER, our late President, whose resig- 

 nation from the Directorship of the South African Museum, 

 Cape Town, we announced in our last issue, has taken an 

 appointment as Director of the Colorado College Museum, 

 (Colorado, U.S.A. 



The good wishes of the Union for a congenial and 

 prosperous sphere of work follow him. 



(2) Mr. S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc.(Oxon.), who was 

 attached as Naturalist to the Geodetic Survey in N.E. 

 Rhodesia, spent in that part of Africa nearly two years from 

 March 1904 to January 1906. His collection of birds 

 numbers some 750 specimens, which, when worked out, are 

 expected to display some highly interesting results. 



(3) Capt. Boyd Alexander's Trans-African Expedition 

 had reached Bomakandi, a Belgian station on the Welle 

 River, in April 1906 : on the 16th June it was at Niangara. 

 Capt. Alexander intended to proceed via Dongu to Wadelai 

 on the Nile. 



It will be remembered that early on this Expedition 

 Capt. Alexander lost his brother, and it is sad to record that 

 the remaining member of the Expedition, Capt. Gosling, has 

 now also died, from blackwater fever. Nothing, however, 

 daunts the courage of Capt. Alexander, who pushes on 

 regardless of these misfortunes and who appears to be 

 fever-proof. 



(4) The attached note from the London ' Times ' of 

 Aug. 17th, 1906, may be interesting to readers : — 



" The Zoological Gardens. — The most important recent 

 additions to the Zoological Gardens consist of a largo 

 collection of South African birds, formed by Capt. B. K. 

 Horsbrugh, A.S.C., who has been serving in the Orange 



