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to any person a licence subject to sucli conditions and 

 regulations as they may think fit authorising the importa- 

 tion of plumage for any Natural History or other Museum, 

 or for the purpose of scientific research or for any other 

 special purpose/ " 



All applications for licences under this sub-section should 

 be addressed to the Imports and Exports Licensing Section, 

 Board of Trade, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W. 1. 



Board of Trade, 



7th Februaiy, 1922. 



Personalia. 



Mr. Bates writes on 30 October last that he has just 

 returned from a journey through the inland parts of 

 Cameroon, traversing the same region as did the German 

 Expedition under Riggenbach of 1908. Mr. Bates reached 

 a place called Genderu, his farthest point, but most of his 

 collections were made on the high plateau of Tibati or in 

 the neighbouring mountains. Tibati is marked in Stieler's 

 Atlas ; it is about 300 miles inland from Duala, the capital 

 of Cameroon^ in a north-easterly direction. He has sent 

 home a collection of bird-skins and a few mammals, which 

 will be examined and reported on by Mr. Bannerman, and 

 there are likely to be some novel forms among them — at any 

 rate, to English Ornithologists. 



We learn that Captain Hubert Lynes, R.N., and 

 Mr, WiLLOUGHBY LowE are about to start on their home- 

 ward journey and expect to be in England early in May. 

 They have been in Darfur since February 19JiO. 



Mr. Hugh Whistler, of the Indian Police, writes us that 

 since his return to India he has been stationed at Dharmsala, 

 in the Kangra district of the Punjab. It is a most in- 

 teresting district to the ornithologist, extending from the 

 borders of Tibet to the plains of the Punjab, and he hopes 

 to do some valuable work there. He has already secured 

 some 700 skins and many eggs of considerable rarity. 



