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Cheesiiiaii, R. E. — In unknown Arabia. London, 1926. Con- 
tains a small list of plants, named by R. D’O. Good and C. Norman. 
— Moritz, B.— Arabien. Studien ziir physikalischen iind his- 
torischen Geographic des Landes. Hannover, 1923. 
— Feritasidez, Joseph. — Formerly employed in the Agricultural 
Directorate, Baghdad, joined G. M. Lees’ expedition to Oman in 
South-Eastern Arabia in 1925-26. Fernandez collected along the 
coast from Maskat to Sohar and inland for about 40 miles. Beiore 
leaving Arabia he gathered plants on Bahrein Island in the Persian 
Gulf. His collection amounts to about 3,000 specimens, one- of the 
largest ever made in Arabia. The plants are accompanied by an 
extensive and detailed journal. Both are at present in the Herbarium 
Blatter but the plants have not been worked out as yet. The journey 
has been described in detail in the following publications. 
Lees, G. M. — The physical geography of South-Eastern Arabia. 
Geogr. Journal LXXIj No. 5 (1928). ^ 
Lees, G. M. — The geology and Tectonics of Omair and of parts of 
South-Eastern Arabia. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. LXXXIA' pt. 4 
(1928) 585-670, plates XLI-LI. 
Eccles, in, J. — The Sultanate of Muscat and Otuan. Journ. 
Centr. Asian Soc. XiV, pt. I (L927) 19. 
1925. — Fox, 11. Muuro. — The Biology of the Suez Canal. In Nature 115 
(1925) 262. 
1926. — Stocker, Otto. — Die Aegyptisch-Arabische Wiiste. In “ Vege- 
tationsbilder ” herausgegeben von G. Karsten u. H. Schenck. 17 
Reihe, Heft 5 6. Jena, 1926. 
1926. — Thomas, Bertram S. — l^hnancial Minister to the Sultan of Maskat. 
Did a good deal of travelling in S. Eastern Arabia : in 1926 between 
Maskat and Sharja on the Pirate Coast, 1928 from Suwaik westwards 
along the S. coast to Dhofar and lastly, (1930-31) from Dhofar across 
the Roba el Khali to Dohah in the Katar Peninsula on the Persian 
Gulf. His natural history collections await working out. In the 
meantime we must be satisfied with what he mentions in his descrip- 
tions.. 
Thomas, B. S. — Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. An account 
of his groat journey against the Great Desert of South Arabia. 
With a preface by Sir A. T. Wilson. With photograph and ma])s. 
1926. — Wilson, A. T. — A summary of Scientific Researcdi in the Persian 
Gulf. Journal Bombay Natural History Society XXXI (1926) 638. 
