viii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The thanks of my brother anthropologists (as well as my own 

 acknowledgments) are due to Dr. Frank C. Shrubsall for the 

 appendices he has furnished to Chapter XIII. on the anthropometric 

 observations, and to Chapter XIV. on a Pygmy's skeleton. My book 

 has furthermore been rendered useful — I might almost say, valuable 

 — by the list of plants drawn up by Mr. Wright, of the Poyal 

 Gardens, Kew, under the direction of Sir AVilliam Thiselton Dyer, 

 K.C.M.G. ; and by the lists of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, 

 etc., very kindly supplied by the officials of the Natural History 

 Museum (Messrs. Oldfield Thomas, Bowdler Sharpe, Charles Chubb, 

 G. A. Boulenger, Edgar Smith, F. Jeffrey Bell, E. Pocock, A. Butler, 

 C. Waterhouse, C. Gahan, Ernest Austen, W. F. Kirby, and 

 H. Kirkpatrick), under the direction of Professor E. Ray Lankester. 

 Messrs. L. Fletcher and G. T. Prior, of the same Department, 

 have reported on the geological and mineralogical collections. 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, Secretary of the Zoological Society, not only 

 selected Mr. Doggett to accompany my expedition, but constantly 

 assisted me with his valuable advice in the matter of making 

 collections. Sir Thomas Sanderson and Sir Clement Hill, of the 

 Foreign Office, have kindly corrected the chapters on history and 

 the Special Commission. The authorities of the Uganda Railway 

 and Mr. D. J. Wilson, of Mombasa, should be thanked for the 

 care they took to transport safely to England all my scientific 

 collections. 



I must close this enumeration with a special acknowledgment of 

 the services rendered to me by Mr. W. G. Doggett, whom I engaged 

 originally to accompany me as a taxidermist and photographer, 

 and who is now in the service of the Scientific Department of the 

 Uganda Administration. A large number among the best of the 

 photographs which illustrate this book, and several of the drawings, 

 are the work of Mr. Doffg-ett. 



