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tlie last British Expedition, sailed from Marseilles on the 

 2-tth of May for Dutch Borneo, where he intends to engage 

 the services of at least eighty picked men for carriers. 

 Mr. C. B. Kloss, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., of the Federated Malay 

 States, who will accompany Mr. Wollaston, is still in 

 England, but leaves very shortly for Singapore, where he will 

 be joined by tlie trained Dyak collectors who ai'e to accom- 

 pany the Expedition. The whole party will leave Batavia 

 some time in Angust, and land, probably at the mouth of 

 the Oetakwa River, at the beginning of September. A very 

 strong motor-launch of light draft, specially built for the 

 purpose, has been shipped to Singapore, and shonld prove 

 invaluable on the lower reaches of the Oetakwa. The 

 Netherlands Government have again shown the utmost 

 kindness, and will facilitate the work of the British Expe- 

 dition in every possible way. 



The pi-incipal object of the new Expedition will be the 

 exploration of the Snowy Range (the Nassau Range of the 

 Dutch), which was approached but not attained by the recent 

 British Expedition, as well as by the Dutch Expedition to 

 the Oetakwa River in 1910. An attempt will be made 

 to reach the water-parting, and, if possible, to ascend 

 Mount Carstensz, the highest peak of the range, 15,964 ft. 



Mr. Wollaston hopes to land in New Guinea by September, 

 so as to take advantage of the comparatively dry months of 

 November and December. He will there be joined by 

 Mr. C. Boden Kloss, who has travelled much in the Malay 

 countries and is now Curator of the jNIuseum at Kuala 

 Lumpor. Mr. Wollaston hopes also to obtain the service of 

 a geologist. 



Death of Dr. Wilhelm Blas'ms. — With much regret we 

 read the announcement of the death, at Brunswick, on the 

 3rd of June last, of Dr. Wilhelm Blasius, a German fellow- 

 worker well known to many of us, and a Foreign Member of 

 the B. O. U. We hope to be able to give some account of 

 his life and work in our next number. 



