Report of Society's Meetings. 117 
Mr. Quelch gave an account of his recent trip to 
Roraima, illustrated by specimens and photographs : — 
He said they would remember that four years ago he 
had the privilege, with the permission of the Dire6lors, of 
going on a colle6ling expedition to the great Savannahs 
adjoining Brazil. Taking advantage of the opportunity, 
and accompanied by Mr. F. V. McConnell, he travelled 
to Roraima, reaching the foot of it after a journey 
of seventeen days over savannahs, or more properly 
speaking grass-covered mountains. Owing to the scarcity 
of provisions and some difficulty with their Indians who 
belonged to the Macushi tribe, and who would not remain 
among the Arecunas, they were unable to stay at Roraima 
more than eight days, two of which were spent on the 
top. On the recent occasion, when he was the guest of 
Mr. F. McConnell, the expedition did not proceed by 
way of the Essequebo and the great savannahs but by 
the Massaruni route, which he outlined on a map. The 
distri6l was easily accessible but the unfortunate part 
of the journey was that they had to traverse, alter leaving 
the river, a great forest-covered series of mountains and 
many small creeks, crossed by tacoubas. Travellers 
by this route were utterly dependant on a few casual 
Indians. Knowing somewhat the conditions of the dis- 
tri6l, very complete arrangements were made beforehand 
and they were consequently able to make the journey to 
Roraima in about a month. The journey was nearly the 
same as that made in 1878 by Messrs. Whetham and 
McTurk, but it was condu6led then under more unfa- 
vourable conditions than Mr. McConnell and he were able 
to arrange for. They reached the top of Roraima on the 
5th 06lober, and as they remained there until the 13th 
were able to explore to a certain extent the whole 
surface of the upper portion of the mountain, Mr. 
McConnell did not remain the whole time on the summit 
as he wanted to superintend the collection of birds and 
other things. They left the mountain altogether on 
the 24th October and reached Georgetown on the i8th 
November. Such he said was a brief outline of the 
journey. The ascent was made by a ledge on the south- 
west face of the mountain, and the route followed, he 
