viii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



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

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

 a23pendices 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 jDlants drawn up by Mr. AVright. of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, under the direction of Sir "William Thiselton Dyer, 

 K.C.M.G. : and b}^ 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, R. Pocock, A. Butler, 

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

 R. 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. AVilson. of Mombasa, should be thanked for the 

 care they took to transyjort safely to England all m\' scientific 

 collections. 



I must close this enumeration with a special acknowledgment of 

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

 originally to accompany me as a taxidermist and photographer, 

 and who is now in the service of the Scientific DeiDartment 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. Doggett. 



