48.'i Lttters, Extracts, and Notes, 



native people who live between 4000 and 6000 ft. They 

 were exceedingly friendly people, and were of the greatest 

 assistance to us in shewing us their tracks through a very 

 steep and difficult country. They are destitute of clothing, 

 and their weapons are bows and arrows, stone axes, and 

 stone knives. They cultivate sweet potatoes and a little 

 tobacco and sugar-cane ; they appear to be in some ways 

 more intelligent than the coast people, with whom we had 

 occasional trouble. 



" lu general the health of the expedition, was very good, 

 and we were fortunate in not having a single case of beri-beri, 

 which was so serious a feature of the B.O.U. Expedition to 

 the Mimika lliver. 



" A more extended account of this expedition will be given 

 in a future number of 'The Ibis/ when the descriptions of 

 the new species of birds are published. — A. F. R. W." 



At the last Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, 

 held on Wednesday, June 11, the collection of bird-skins, 

 numbering about 1300 in all, were exhibited; as they had 

 only been unpacked on the day previous to the Meeting it 

 was impossible to say how many were novelties, but in the 

 current number of the ' Bulletin ' of the Club five forms are 

 characterized as new by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. 



In addition to the birds some 150 mammals, a large 

 number of snakes and other reptiles, and several thousand 

 insects were obtained, as well as a very extensive collection 

 of ethnological objects, including about 50 specimens of 

 the stone knives used by the natives in the regions visited 

 by the expedition. 



It is to be hoped that it may be possible to make arrange- 

 ments for publishing a complete account of the scientific 

 results of the two Dutch New Guinea expeditions in a series 

 of volumes so as to form a permanent memorial of the 

 undertaking. This it may perhaps be possible to effect by 

 the co-operation of the British Ornithologists' Union with 

 other scientific bodies interested in the results other than 

 ornithological. 



