Introduction. 



give here the names o£ all those who contributed, I would 

 especially mention the following : — 



S. G. Asher. 



E. J. Brook. 



J. Stewart Clark. 

 Col. Stephenson R. Clarke. 

 Sir Jeremiali Colman. 

 H. J. Elwes. 



F. Du Cane Godman. 

 Sir Edward Grey. 



J. H. Gurney. 



Sir William Ingram. 



Lord Iveagh. 



Mrs. Charles Jenkinson. 



E. J. Johnstone. 



Campbell D. Mackellar. 



G. A. Macmillan. 



E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. 



Mrs. H. A. Powell. 



H. C. Robinson. 



Lord Jiothschild (the late). 



Hon. L. Walter Rothschild (now 



Lord Rothschild). 

 Hon. N. Charles Rothschild. 

 Baron and Baroness James A. de 



Rothschild. 

 P. L. Sclater. 

 P. K. Stothert. 

 Oldfield Thomas. 

 Rowland Ward. 



The Proprietors of ' Country Life.' 

 The Royal Society. 

 The Royal Geographical Society. 

 The Zoological Society of London. 



The organization and equipment o£ this large expedition 

 caused considerable delay, and it was not until September, 

 1909, that the members sailed from England for the East. 

 Meanwhile the necessary steps were taken to obtain the 

 consent of the Netherlands Grovernment to allow the proposed 

 expedition to travel in Dutch New Guinea and to carry out 

 the scheme of exploration. Not only was this permission 

 granted, thanks to the kindly help of Sir Edward Grey and 

 the British Minister at the Hague, but the Government of 

 Holland showed itself animated with such readiness to assist 

 both expeditious that it supplied not only an armed guard at 

 its own expense, but placed a gun-boat at the disposal of 

 the Committee to convey the members of the expeditions 

 from Batavia to New Guinea. On behalf of the Committee 

 I would again take this opportunity of publicly expressing, 

 their most grateful thanks to the Netherlands Government 

 for these and many other substantial acts of kindness, which 

 were shown to the members of the expeditions. The 

 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company did all 

 in their power to further the interests of both expeditions, and 

 to them the Committee is very specially indebted. To the 

 Proprietors of ' Country Life' the thanks of the Committee 



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