NATURE 
[Marci 21, 1907 
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abundant. Beautiful country scenery, as well as master- 
pieces of architecture and art of other kinds in the precinct, 
would attract his attention waken his interest, and tend 
to prevent him dwelling too much in thought on his own 
ailments. There can be little doubt that the sick were 
in general much benefited by their residence at the 
Asklepieia of ancient Greece. 
THE SNOW -! 1KS OF RUWENZORI. 
THE paner rea the Duke of the. Abruzzi at the 
special meeting of the Royal Geographical Society 
en January 12, of which a short report was given in 
Nature for January 17 (p. 282), has been printed in full 
MounT STANLEY 
Queen Margherita Peak 
xandra Peak 
Queen Ale King Fdwa'd Peak 
The paper as printed supplies information as to the 
basis for the determination of the heights of the snow- 
peaks, fourteen of which were climbed by the Duke. With 
one exception, they all. depend on observations with the 
mercurial barometer referred to Bujongolo as a_ lower 
station, which again, was linked with Fort Portal, and 
through this with Entebbe, by barometer readings as nearly 
simultaneous as Some of the heights above 
Bujongolo were also fixed by Captain Cagni by vertical 
angles, the results agreeing closely with those of the baro- 
meter ye Duke’s figures are mostly about 
100 feet to 200 feet in excess of those derived from Captain 
Behrens’s triangulation, and it is possible that when the 
altitude of Fort Portal above the Victoria lake has been 
possible. 
observations. 1 
Mount BakeER 
Grauer Rock Wol aston Peak 
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Moore Cla ier 
The Highest Peaks of Ruwenzori. 
in the February number of the Geographical Journal, 
accompanied by a small selection of Signor Sella’s striking 
photographs. One of these, showing the highest summits 
of the range, we are enabled to reproduce herewith by 
the courtesy of the editor of that journal. 
in the background on the left are the culminating points of 
the whole range, named by the Duke after the queens 
of Italy and England. They belong to the group of peaks 
named by him Mount Stanley, while the remaining 
summits shown in the photograph form together the group 
to which the name Mount Baker is applied, the highest 
point of which is King Edward Peak (the most central in 
the picture). As is well shown, the two massifs (like the 
whole six which constitute the snowy portion of the range) 
are separated by a comparatively deep depression, to which 
the name Scott Elliot Pass has been given by the Duke. 
The twin peaks 
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fixed trigonometrically, a small correction will have to be 
applied throughout. The general accordance in the heights 
of the six separate massifs is somewhat striking, none 
falling below 15,000 feet, while the highest point of all is 
only 16,816 feet. None of the peaks offers any serious 
difficulties to the climber, for the Duke says that the 
obstacles met with during the ascent of the Queen 
Margherita peak could have been avoided by another 
route. 
The Duke’s conclusions as to the geological history of 
the range were summarised in our former article, but it 
may be added here that attention is directed to the prob- 
able existence of internal fractures traversing the whole 
range in a generally north-south direction, which would 
account for the separation of the several groups of summits. 
The general hydrographic system can be grasped from the 
