2 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OP THE RUWENZOEI EXPEDITION. 



more time to achieve than I had at first contemplated. At last, however, this 

 difficulty was overcome through the generosity of — 



His Grace The Duke of Bedford, K.G., President of the 



Zoological Society of London, 

 The Earl of Dartmouth, F.Z.S., 

 Viscount Iveagh, F.Z.S., 

 Lord Strathcona and Mount Eoyal, 

 The Hon. N. C. Rothschild, F.Z.S., 

 Sir Alexander Baird, F.Z.S., 

 Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.Z.S., 

 Mr. W. A. Bell, F.Z.S., 

 The late Mr. C. Czarnikow, F.Z.S., 

 Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, F.Z.S. , 

 The Trustees of the Percy Sladen Fund, and 

 The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, 



who became Subscribers to the Ruwenzori Expedition Fund on the understanding 

 that the first set of specimens collected should be presented to the British Museum, 

 Mr. C. E. Fagan, Secretary of the British Museum (Natural History), kindly 

 consented to act as Treasurer to the fund. 



Meanwhile, the services of four first-rate field-naturalists and collectors, 



Mr. R. B. Woosnam (leader of "j Late of the 



the Expedition), I Worcestershire 



Mr. R. E. Dent, J Regiment, 



Hon. Gerald Legge, and 

 Mr. Douglas Carruthers, 



were secured, and to these was finally added Mr. A. F. R. WoLLASTOlir, who undertook 

 to look after the health of the various members of the Expedition and to form 

 botanical and entomological collections. 



It would be difficult to find any five individuals who could have carried out 

 the work so successfully and thoroughly as these gentlemen have done, and to 

 anyone who studies the following pages this will be abundantly evident. To 

 Mr. R. B. Woosnam, the leader of the Expedition, special praise is due for the 

 admirable manner in which he conducted the exploration of Ruwenzori and brought 

 it to a most successful termination in the face of many serious difficulties. The 

 Zoological Society of London, in recognition of the signal services he has rendered 

 to science on this and other similar occasions, has awarded him a silver medal, and 

 certainly no reward was ever more justly merited. The botanical results have already 

 been published in a paper by Dr. A. B, Rendle and others, which appeared in the 

 'Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany,' vol. xxxviii. pp. 228-279 (January 1908). 



The organization and equipment of this large Expedition took many months to 



