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His Excellency, the Acting-Governor of Sierra Leone, having Memoran- 
kindly promised to endeavour to induce the District Com- ejecting 
missioners in the Sierra Leone Protectorate to collect for the forwarded to 
Museum if I would inform him what specimens were particularly Governor? 
required, a memorandum on the subject was drawn up and 
forwarded to his Excellency. 
At the very end of our stay I was incapacitated for some days ^ n attack of 
by a slight attack of a?stivo-autumnal fever. Though Major Ross fever, 
was inclined to ascribe this to my having become infected through 
sleeping on one occasion without a mosquito net, I myself think 
it much more likely that I was bitten by Anopheles while dining 
in the town. During the whole of our stay in Tower Hill 
Barracks I never saw an Anopheles there alive, except those that 
we ourselves kept securely confined, and to discover even a Culex 
in my quarters was fortunately rare. 
Major Ross having to resume his duties at Liverpool early in Departure 
October, we left Freetown in the s.s. "Fantee" on September 27th, for England 
A and return 
and reached Plymouth on October 9th. I proceeded in the to duty. 
ship to Liverpool with the boxes containing my collections, 
arrived there on the following day, and returned to duty on 
October 13th. 
I cannot conclude this report without expressing my sincere 
thanks to his Excellency the Acting-Governor, and to Major 
N orris, D.S.O., and officers 1st and 3rd Battalions West India 
Regiment, as well as to the officers of the Royal Army Medical 
Corps at Tower Hill and Wilberforce, not only for their con- 
stant kindness, but also for much assistance in the acquisition of 
zoological specimens. It is also my pleasant duty to record my 
gratitude to Dr. H. E. Annett, who, in addition to frequently 
helping me in the pinning and labelling of specimens, most kindly 
relieved me of the whole of this work when I was attacked by 
fever, besides packing up my boxes and collections. 
E. E. AUSTEN. 
October 27th, 1899. 
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