achnowle^gi ncntg. 
In publishing this Report the Committee wish to express their thanks^ for assistance 
rendered in furtherance of the objects of the expedition^ to the Right Honourable Joseph 
Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies; to Professor E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 
Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum ; to the British Medical 
Association ; to H. E. Major Nathan, R.E., C.M.G., Acting Governor of Sierra Leone ; 
to H. E. Sir Frederic Hodgson, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Gold Coast; to H. E. Sir 
fFilliam MacGregor, M.D., K.C.M.G., Governor of Lagos; to Colonel Burke, D.S.O., 
Commanding H. M. Forces in Sierra Leone; to Major Norris, D.S.O., and the Officers, 
1st Batt. West India Regiment, Sierra Leone; to Drs. Strachan, Prout, Henderson, 
Renner, Berkeley, and Chalmers, of the West Coast ; and to Major G. M. Giles, LM.S., 
for kindly undertaking part of the work of Mr. Austen. 
'■The present opportunity has been taken for recording some previous observations on 
the subject made in India by one of the members of the expedition. 
ALFRED L. JONES, 
Cliairman. 
