146 IVAN SA'S) CID V (RE VIEW. OF SCIEN CE, 
STANLEY ON THE CONGO. 
Stanley’s new expedition on the Congo, promises to become the greatest un- 
dertaking ever attempted in African exploration. Since his arrival at Banana, 
the Dutch station at the mouth of the Congo, Stanley has taken the entire expe- 
dition, with his fleet of five small steamers and several small boats, up the river 
as far as the first Yellala falls. At Vivi, opposite the second rapids, and 130 
miles from the coast, he has erected his first station on the right bank of the river. 
His camp, consisting of movable wooden houses, magazines, sheds, etc., stands 
on a small plateau surrounded by precipices, 200 feet above the river level. The 
expedition is very numerous, comprising about one hundred negroes from Zanzi- 
bar, Sierra Leone and the Congo, and some twenty whites of different nations— 
Belgians, Americans, English, Italians, Danes—and including a superintendent, a 
captain for the boats, engineers, surveyors, mechanics, carpenters, sailors, etc. 
Stanley and all his men are now hard at work building the road through the wild 
coast range of mountains to transport the boats and supplies overland past the 
terrible series of the thirty-two Livingstone Falls. As soon as Stanley Pool, which 
is above the last fall and 200 miles distant, has been reached, the second station 
will be established on its shores asa basis of supplies, and the fleet of steamers 
will be launched on the river. Nothing will then prevent Stanley from ascending 
the great river and its powerful tributaries and penetrating to the very heart of 
Africa. 
AFRICAN EXPLORATION. 
The German African Society, in the last number of its MJ7tthetlungen, pub- 
lishes a list of all the scientific expeditions sent out by the (former) German So- 
- ciety for the investigation of Equatorial Africa, and by the new society (under its 
present title) during the years from 1873 to1879. All together there were no less 
than eight expeditions, viz :— 
1. The Loango Expedition, and to the Chinchoxo Station, 1873-1876 ; cost, 
10,532 l. less 1,133 |. realized from sale of specimens: leader, Dr. Paul Giissfeldt, 
not Prof. A. Bastian, (who took part at his own expense in the preparatory steps 
for the establishment of the Chinchoxo Station). 
2. The Ogowe Expedition of Dr. Oscar Lenz, 1874-1876; cost, 1,563 l. 
3. Cassange Expedition, 1874-1876; cost, 44571. Members: Capt. A. 
Von Homeyer, Dr. Paul Pogge, Herm. Loyaux, Lieut. A. Lux. 
4. Eduard Mohr’s Expedition, 1876; cost, 692 1. 
5. Engineer Schiitt’s Expedition, 1877-1879; cost, 2,590 1. 
