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From Ruwenzori to the Congo; a Naturalist’s Journey across 
Africa. By A. F. R. Wonuaston. John Murray. — 
Tue ‘‘ Mountains of the Moon” or Ruwenzori, in Equatorial 
Africa, discovered by Stanley in 1888, have greatly interested 
zoologists as well as geographers. To a zoologist, Mr. Ogilvie- 
Grant may be given the credit for the inception of the expedi- 
tion, whose journey is described in this volume, and to which 
Dr. Wollaston acted as medical adviser, and collector in the 
botanical and entomological departments. The considerable 
and valuable material—both zoological and botanical—was in- 
tended from the first for the British Museum, and much more 
will be heard of it during the next few months ina series of 
reports made by the staff of that institution in the ‘ Trans- 
actions of the Zoological Society of London.’ The botanical 
results have already appeared in the ‘Journal of the Linnean 
Society.’ : 
This volume describes more particularly the country in which 
these collections were made, and by a wealth of photographic 
illustration gives a full introduction to the geographical, bota- 
nical, and anthropological features of the region—in fact, of the 
environment of the many species collected. ‘Those who peruse 
books on African travel cannot neglect it, and to those who 
study the collections it is indispensable. 
We are glad to read, in contradiction to our experience in 
the Transvaal, that despite the current idea that it is only in 
Europe the birds can sing, Dr. Wollaston heard in Uganda and 
in the neighbouring parts of the Congo State ‘‘ such a morning 
chorus of birds as can only be equalled at a May sunrise at 
home.” At Kamimbi the Chef de Poste, Lieutenant de Rossi, 
had a wonderful faculty of taming the birds and beasts with 
which his house was filled. A young half-grown Chimpanzee 
had acquired an extraordinary affection for him, and would 
