PERSONNEL. 
It seems to me that it would be well worth while for my 
wife to accompany me for at least part of the time. She has assisted 
me in the past by pinning and labeling insects and deviscerating 
them. She could examine the daily catches of the insect collectors 
to see that they were not bringing in rubbed lepidoptera or 
quantities of common species, if I pay them on a basis of results 
she could make the daily counts which take considerable time. 
Moreover my usual custom has been to leave camp at, or 
shortly before daybreak and not return till about 11 a.m. - these 
are the best collecting hours. During my absence she would supervise 
the individual feeding of the animals and assist in coaxing unwilling 
creatures to feed. With the exception of Salimu,who is too good a 
collector to devote to sue h-J work, I have found that if this is left 
to the natives tney are apt to comfort themselves by the fire till 
the 3 un is well up and blandly inform you on your return to camp 
that the animals have all fed well, whereas certain creatures have 
refused their food. Again without oversight natives are apt to feed 
sour milk to young animals or be negligent in the cleaning out of 
used milk bottles and this carelessness results in diarrhoea and 
frequently death. 
She could also pay for small creatures brought in by local 
natives during my absence and in many ways fully justify the 
expenditure on her passage to and from England by leaving me freer 
to concentrate on the trapping of the vertebrates and the preservation 
of larger things. 
LICENSES. 
Under the existing Game Law a full Visitor’s License 
costs $ 375 out I have little doubt that an application, sufficiently 
well backed, stating precisely what animala were desired and that it 
was for scientific purposes, the fee would be waived joxhax at His 
Excellency’s discretion. Separate application to hunt young game and 
protected birds, or to acquire the same by purchase from natives, 
would have to be made to the Game Warden under section 35 (1) of the 
1931 Regulations. 
As the granting of such special licenses take considerable 
time it is necessary to apply well in advance. 
It would be advantageous at the same time to ask for a 
couple of stockless .303 rifles ’for trapping vermin’.-I have little 
doubt that at least six leopard skins and skulls would result to say 
nothing of hyaena. It is not usual to loan these rifles except to■ 
Government officials but there would be no harm in asking1 
