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the author a number of photographs illustrating the native 

 industries, fauna, and scenery of the Western Liberian border- 

 land. The botanical drawings for the book have been done by 

 Miss Matilda Smith of the Kew Herbarium. In regard to the 

 nomenclature of the mammals and birds, the author is indebted 

 to Mr. Oldfield Thomas and Mr. C. Chubb, of the British 

 Museum, for much assistance, and also to Mr. G. A. Boulenger 

 for information regarding the reptiles and fish. Miss E. M. 

 Rowdier Sharpe has examined and classified the butterflies. Mr, 

 R. I. Pococlc has contributed some notes on the spiders. 



In compiling the lists of fauna, the author has to acknow- 

 ledge his indebtedness to the work of Professor J. Buttikofer, 

 who has laid the foundations of our biological knowledge of this 

 interesting part of Africa. 



The author has received much information on Liberian 

 commerce, history, and peoples from the American Minister 

 to Liberia, Dr. Ernest Lyon, and from the General Manager 

 of the Chartered and Rubber Companies, Mr. I. F. Braham. 

 He has also to acknowledge assistance from the Liberian Rubber 

 Corporation's foresters, Messrs. Harold Reynolds, D. Sim, F. J. 

 Whicker, Maitland Pye-Smith, John Gow, and Percy Newman. 

 Dr. E. W. Blyden, Liberian Minister to France, has been of 

 great help in checking the historical account of modern Liberia^ 

 a country of which he is a citizen, and with which he has been 

 intimately connected since 1851. 



The Royal Geographical Society and Captain H. D. 



