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NATURE 



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join 111". 1 



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view <il li:i\i 

 mil iIt lc,i-.t 

 tlic ihiiilvin^ 

 rfiii.ii U.ilili- .1 



l.;ulo 

 Willi.- Nil- 

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informatinn \<. {jivrn rofi-: 



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-nice iln 



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r.d 



111 

 ^lill; 



r of 



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ii.l 1...U. ( l,,i(l UK'"!'-. illuNir.Ui-s th«- 

 11 III liullalo. Un<iuii to us, however, 

 part (if llif niiu-Kiiith century. Vit. 

 His ihai tiic \<uini4 Iniffaloes of this 

 ill ll).- (oluiir 'if ituir liair, I.'.:" ' - --i 

 piTficlh lilai k u Inn full j^ro 

 i! . ^' ■ vallfv Ik- brought i...v .^ m. 

 I 111 skull of a fjirafTe, show- 



ii,^ n, w I'Ao jiiincipal ossicones the 

 m embranchinent, a 

 ■I 1 1 lire as evidencing 

 :is group (with 

 I nghorn \s very 

 wiiith led in Miocene 

 h rr-sults as th*- ex- 

 ram lud antler's of the 

 Tiiis samr S h a r i 

 1 an exceptional de- 

 ihf ossicone on the 

 nasal liom-s liiiwifn thf eyes. In- 

 sii-a(.i ot liiiiu; a im-ri' buitip, it 

 I isi s In a ( onsuU-rable knob with 

 an aiii-miaiid stcin. Dr. Kumm 

 alsd shni a rhin«K-eros in the 

 shaii vall<\, an interesting fact 

 as SI rMiiL; with other scanty in- 

 lorniation to show that the range 

 of the rhinoceros docs extend across 



hei^inning 

 most inter 

 the latent tend' 

 which, |)erlia|)-. 

 disianilv allied) 

 times Id such 

 ti'ai irdinar\ 

 Sivalheiiiim. 

 ^^ii-alfi- e\hi'i'ii 



Xelopnieill "I 



Ni: 



.1 ( 

 ieria. 



•ntral 

 Intil 



Africa 

 recenil 



to 



'tern 



had 



the 



Fig. I.— a 



ryi 



pliiti- m her lips. 



From " From Hausaland to K^ypt- 



ilished hv M 



accoin 



rears aL;o. 1 1 

 clothes ami an 

 a w alkiiiij-siick 



Waller Savage 

 is lasi-naiiied Iravelle 

 ordinarx hat .and hool 

 and atlended l)\' one 



.Somalis (as a nucleus), quietly ^ 

 part ot the wa\ acruss A trica at ib 

 east to west, irom Somaliland lo 

 Lander would seem to h.ive heen 



indoi' ;i few 



in oi'dinary 



armed with 



two faithful 



alketl the i^reater 



\v\-\ broadest, from 



Seneg.ainhi.a. Mr. 



somewhat sh.ihhilv 



vear j i A.D., 

 the Sahara I) 

 Dr. Kumm : 

 new species i 

 hluish-hlack n 



lie en 

 rhini >ei-i 

 w;is toum: 

 ihoui^h ihi : 

 lion that the 

 i-\pedition ti. 

 enlei-eti a fi' 



dx'.anced ii 



'unlike 



: the 



shii'A lira! 



the zebr,-i I 



White Nil*-; 



: course, the tradi- 



Romans, in their abortive 



L.ike Chad about the 



'ion on the outskirts of 



eri which swarmed with "unicorns." 



^o thinks that he has discovered a 



variety of crocodile, in which the 



larkiiii^^s on the scales (present in the 



i^eoi^r.iphical societies of the world in 

 slii;ht recognition which followed his 

 ill\ the reason for this is the same 

 of the si.mewh.at unkindly reviews of 

 Dr. Kru'l Kumm's hook, which have recently appeared 

 in one or two ioumals, n.imely, that the mere travers- 

 ing of Africa on fool, or bv any other means of pro- 

 }:jression available, counts for very little unless such a 

 journey is accompanied hy the gathering of new and 

 important information rei^anliiii^ the L;e<)loi^y. geo- 

 graphy, zoology, botany, or aiUhropology of the 

 country traversed. 



No doubt there is some excuse for this point of 

 view. But without reopening for the moment the 

 question of Mr. Landor, the disparagement of Dr. 

 Kumm's book seems a little harsh. Im phts hcllc 

 fille nc petit donricr que cc (ju'cllc a. Dr. Kumm. 

 perhaps, is most noteworthy (from the point of view 

 of a biologist) as a collector of butterflies and moths. 

 He managed to bring home 250 specimens of Lepidop- 

 tera, which have been named at the Rriti.sh Museum, 

 and these are illustrated in the work under review by 

 a selection of noteworthv forms very beautifully pro- 

 duced in colour, apparently by photography. .So far 

 as can be gathered from the book, none of those forms 

 is completely new to science, but not a few of them 

 are new as objects of wonder or beauty to the 

 average reader. 



NO. 2163, VOL. 86] 



Nile and Slender-nosed crocodiles) have an exagger- 

 ated development , and form regular, blackish, vertical 

 b.ands round the l)od\'. 

 But this disc<)Ver\ is 

 o 11 1 V <an .isscriion 

 hacked up by a sketch 

 from memory. 



In .Appendix .A, Dr. 

 Kumm gives some 

 proverbs from the 

 B e r i-beri language, 

 but we are not told 

 (so far as I can 

 gather) what is the 

 geographical location 

 of this speech. lie 

 supplies, further, a 

 vocabulary of Bagirmi 

 words, which, in view 

 of Harth's admirable 

 study of that lan- 

 guage, is not a strik- 

 ing novelty. H i s 

 vocabulary of Sara is 

 more useful, though 

 that speech of the very heart of -Africa has dnady 

 been illustrated by the French. Quite new , or at any 

 rate, verv nearly so, are his vocabularies of Nilim and 

 Korbal of the Shari region. He also gives a few- 

 words of Sango, a language of the Upper Mubangi. 

 The photographs illustrating the book are for the 



Fig. 2. — Horns of Shari-Chad Giraffe. 

 troin ■" From Haus,-iland to Kgypt." 



