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members and their friends. The remote destination of 

 the expedition aroused a good deal of pubhc interest. 

 The Royal Geographical Society expressed a desire to 

 share in the enterprise, and it soon became evident that 

 it would be a mistake to limit the object of the expedition 

 to the pursuit of birds only. Mr. Walter Goodfellow, a 

 naturalist who had several times travelled in New Guinea 

 as well as in other parts of the world, was appointed 

 leader of the expedition. Mr. W. Stalker and Mr. G. C. 

 Shortridge, both of whom had had wide experience of 

 collecting in the East, were appointed naturalists. Capt. 

 C. G, Rawling, CLE., 13th Somersetshire Light Infantry, 

 who had travelled widely in Tibet and mapped a large 

 area of unknown territory in that region, was appointed 

 surveyor, with Mr. E. S. Marshah, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 

 who had just returned from the " Furthest South " with 

 Sir E. H. Shackleton, as assistant surveyor and surgeon ; 

 and the present writer, who had been medical officer, 

 botanist, and entomologist on the Ruwenzori Expedition 

 of 1906-7, undertook the same duties as before. 



Prolonged correspondence between the Foreign Office 

 and the Dutch Government resulted, thanks largely to 

 the personal interest of Sir Edward Grey and Lord 

 Acton, British Charge d' Affaires at the Hague, in per- 

 mission being granted to the expedition to land in Dutch 

 New Guinea on or after January i, 1910. The date 

 of landing was postponed by the Government until 

 January in order that there might be no interference 

 with the expedition of Mr. H. A. Lorentz, who it was 

 hoped would be the first to reach the snow in New 

 Guinea by way of the Noord River, a project which he 



