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In the Heart of Africa 
233 new species and four new families of phanerogamous plants 
were also found. Particular interest attaches to the collections 
from the Rugege forest and from the volcanic region, which 
fill up a considerable gap in our knowledge of African alpine 
flora. A scientific treatise dealing with these collections has 
already appeared in the proceedings of the Royal Prussian 
Academy of Science, Berlin, for the year 1909, entitled: 
Die Vegetationsverhdltnisse der zentralafrikanischen Seen-zone 
vom Viktoria-See bis zu den Kiwu-Vulkanen. B eric hi uber die 
botanischen Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herzogs Adolf 
Friedrich zu Mecklenburg^ 1907-1908.” (J. Mildbraed.) The 
most important result obtained, however, is the establishment of 
the fact that a large number of botanical families and species 
which had hitherto been believed to be limited exclusively to the 
forests in the neighbourhood of the west coast, really reach as 
far as to the region of the upper Ituri, almost to the foot of the 
Ruwenzori chain, and that therefore the great African hylaea 
forms one homogeneous botanical whole. 
Schubotz throws light on the zoological work done in a 
preliminary report published by him in the proceedings of the 
Berlin Society of Naturalists, year 1909, No. 7 {Vorldufiger 
Bericht uber die Reise und die zoologischen Ergebnisse der 
deutschen Zentralafrika-Exfedition ^ 1907-1908, von Hermann 
Schubotz). The collection, which was transferred to the Berlin 
Zoological Museum, comprised all sections of the animal king¬ 
dom, and consisted numerically as follows: 834 mammals (hides, 
skeletons, skulls, specimens in methylated spirits), 800 bird- 
skins, 173 reptiles, 204 amphibious animals, 708 fish, 1,452 
decapods, 686 molluscs, 7,603 insects and several hundreds of 
smaller forms, I,i8i arachnidae, 167 myriopoda, 637 worms 
(oligoch^ta, hirudinid^, nematoidea, cestoidea, and turbellaria), 
40 glasses of plankton, 4 glasses of bryozoa, 27 spongiae, and 
various swamp and moss specimens. The classification of this 
material by learned experts, which unquestionably contains a 
great number of new forms, especially among the lower animals, 
will be a labour of some years. There are a considerable number 
