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equipped expedition might meet with success, and I 

 entered into an arrangement with him to lead a small 

 zoological expedition to explore the Snow Mountains. It 

 so happened, however, that by the time our arrangements 

 had been completed in December, 1908, the members of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union, founded in 1858, were 

 celebrating their Jubilee, and it seemed fitting that they 

 should mark so memorable an occasion by undertaking some 

 great zoological exploration. I therefore laid my scheme 

 for exploring the Snow Mountains before the meeting, 

 and suggested that it should be known as the Jubilee 

 Expedition of the B.O.U., a proposal which was received 

 with enthusiasm. A Committee was formed, consisting of 

 Mr. F. du Cane Godman, F.R.S. (President of the 

 B.O.U.), Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. (Editor of the Idis\ 

 Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 

 (Secretary), and Mr. C. E. Fagan (Treasurer). At the 

 request of the Royal Geographical Society it was decided 

 that their interests should also be represented, and that a 

 surveyor and an assistant-surveyor, to be selected by the 

 Committee, should be added, the Society undertaking to 

 contribute funds for that purpose. The expedition thus 

 became a much larger one than had been originally con- 

 templated and included : — 

 Mr. Walter Goodfellow (Leader), 

 Mr. Wilfred Stalker and Mr. Guy C. Shortridge (Collectors 



of Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, etc.), 

 Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston (Medical Officer to the Expedition, 



Entomologist, and Botanist), 

 Capt. C. G. Rawling, CLE. (Surveyor), 

 Dr. Eric Marshall (Assistant-Surveyor and Surgeon). 



