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A letter dated beris; Mons 21,1894, was published in Mature 
for October 4 of that year... Itraised.a high expectation that Mr. Scott- 
Elliot. would. &nocead in thoroughly Jeet <beseines the flora. of this 
interesting region 
Mr. Scott-Elliot i is now on his way — sid the following letter i is 
the Seip intelligence which has been received — this ah 
tray í 
Some account of Ruwenzori on which Mr. Sastt-Rittot had spent four 
months is given by himself in Nature for qanay, 17, 1895, in a ied 
dated TRS 2 of the praba year, 
one it Mandala, Shire Higkliadi 
DEAR. Si” 6 December. 1894. 
I THINK I should report to you as to my movements since leaving 
Ruwenzori. I was obliged to start south owing to my supply of cloth 
running short and the impossibility of feeding my men. 
I thought it would be. too foolhardy to attempt to cross Ruanda D E 
which Thad 4 very bad reports from everyone, so determined to pursu 
my original plan of trying to see if the Kagera river was navigable. ` 1 
therefore crossed Mpororo and d this river from the e point where 
‘turns eastward until T eet t that I was on the latitude of Tanganika. 
TM int d ieross Urundi thè lake wh which I reached after great 
TE ae natives ( ie sud "consisted of 40 men of whom 
Arab dhows to to Marco; crossed the oath ett Road and came down to 
Matope on the upper sh 3 steamer and boat. I was obliged to give 
up my original idea of visiting the Livin bp Mountains on account 
of blindness, the result of Tanganika us : - att 
dysentery. It is only during the last few days that m 
recovered sufliciently to enable me to botanise, and I have been reduced 
to.trusting to matives for specimens. My collection now consists of 
about 12,300 1 e m specimens. also have a fair 
Ratinidti itsel? 
I propose to stay hers a rare and - return home as my y health 
x nos comple, recovered and my expenses are becoming’ ` very hi hea eavy 
A ho ope my collections will reach home in good condition ; I am trying 
to keep them with me but have thought it best to send them to Chiroma 
at, present as the rains are coming on and i e 2 botanise on Milanje. 
(Signe) nG F. Soorr-EtioT. 
The Presiden 
Government Grant Coot, 
Royal Societ 
Malayan Planís.—Dr. G. Kin ng has sent. another Ero of uem 
representing the novelties of the continuation of his Materials for a 
Flora of the..Malay Peninsula, These are chiefly Meliacee, which are 
very nunierous in the peninsula ; but there are also many other noyelties) 
: Hote oma to ‘the neiglibourin E fatilie ies. men ther. there -are. about 
tians th ge Damsdsdo 
