BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAIa HISTORY). 95 



Address to the Emperor Menelelc. 



An illuminated address, signed by a number of the Trustees, 

 and sealed v/ith the Museum seal, has been despatched to the 

 Emperor Menelek, through the Foreign Office, acknowledging 

 in suitable terms the facilities granted to Lord Lovat and 

 Mr. Weld-Blundell for travelling and collecting in Abyssinia, 

 whereby the Museum has been enriched by the fine collection 

 of Birds and Mamm.als obtained by those gentlemen during 

 their expedition through the Galla Country and Southern 

 Abyssinia to the Blue Nile (see last year's Return, p. 104). 

 The address was accompanied by certain specially bound 

 volumes of the Museum Publications, the whole being en- 

 trusted to the care of Colonel Harrington, British Repre- 

 sentative at the Court of the Emperor Menelek. 



Malaria Inquiry. 



In connection with this subject collections of Mosquitos 

 have continued to pour into the Museum from all parts of 

 the world. Of the genus Anopheles, certain species of which 

 have been proved to be the carriers of the Malaria parasite, 

 those from India and the Straits Settlements sent by Capt. 

 S. P. James, I. M.S. (Travancore), Dr. E. S. Goodrich (Madras), 

 Mr. C. W. Daniells (Bombay), and Mr. L. Wray, junr. 

 (Taipeng), have proved specially interesting, all the species, 

 except one from the Straits Settlements, being new, Full 

 information regarding the collections received up to May 

 last will be found in a Preliminary Report,* prepared by 

 Mr. F. V. Theobald, which has been printed for the Museum 

 by H.M. Stationery Office, and distributed among the senders 

 of the various collections and the Public Departments inter- 

 ested in the subject. Numerous additional collections have, 

 however, been received since the issue of that Report. A 

 Monograph of Mosquitoes, to be published by the Trustees, is 

 in preparation by Mr. Theobald. 



The Report by Mr. E. E. Austen on the natural history 

 results of the Expedition to Sierra Leone, sent out by the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, under the leadership 

 of Major Ross, to investigate the connection between Mos- 

 quitoes and Malaria {see British Museum Return for 1899, 

 p. 97) has also been printed and circulated. 



* Report on the Collections of Mosquitoes (Culicicte) received at the British 

 Museum (Natural History) from various parts of the World in connection with the 

 investigation into the Causes of Malaria, conducted by the Colonial Office and the 

 Royal Society. Ey Fred. V. Theobald, M.A. Printed by Order of the Trustees of 

 the British Museum. London. 1900. 



