VI Introduction. 



It happened, however, that by the time our arrangements 

 had been completed in December 1908, the members o£ the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, founded in 1858, were cele- 

 brating their Jubilee, and it seemed fitting that they should 

 mark so memorable an occasion by undertaking some great 

 zoological exploration. I therefore laid my scheme for 

 exploring the Snow Mountains before the meeting, and 

 suggested that it should be known as the Jubilee Expe- 

 dition of the B.O. U., a proposal which was received with 

 enthusiasm. 



A Committee was formed, consisting of Mr. F. Du Cane 

 Godman, F.R.S. (President of the B. 0. U.), Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, F.R.S. (Editor of 'The Ibis'), Mr. E. G. B. Meade- 

 Waldo, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-drant (Secretary), Mr. C. E. 

 Fagan (Treasurer). 



At the request of the Royal Geographical Society it was 

 decided that their interests should also be represented, and 

 that a surveyor and an assistant-surveyor, to be selected by 

 the Committee, should be added, the Society undertaking to 

 contribute funds for that purpose. 



The Expedition thus became a much larger one than had 

 been originally contemplated and included : — 



Mr. Walter Goodfellow (Leader), 



Mr. Wilfred Stalker and Mr. Guy C. Shortridge (Col- 

 lectors of Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, etc.), 



Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston (Medical Officer to the Expe- 

 dition, Entomologist, and Botanist), 



Capt. C. G. Bawling, CLE. (Surveyor), 



Dr. Eric Marshall (Assistant-Surveyor and Surgeon). 



To meet the cost of keeping such an expedition in the 

 field for at least a year it was necessary to raise a large sum 

 oi money, and this I was eventually able to do, thanks chiefly 

 to a liberal grant from His Majesty's Government, and to 

 the generosity of a number of private subscribers, many of 

 whom were members of the B. 0. U. The total sum raised 

 amounted to over £9000, and though it is impossible to 



