BY J. C. MOULTON. 
149 
&c.; it was probably found on the same day, but it would 
be at higher altitudes, and always in the region of and 
among moss and excessive moisture, while the others were 
found in comparatively drier positions, and generally 
climbing over scrub or low trees. 
“ There was a happy valley we ascended as a separate 
excursion where the forest growth was less dense and over¬ 
grown, where we found a large number of Nepenthes—this 
to my mind was on the left or sea side of the main road to 
Kinabalu, and was made from the last house on the way 
to the mountain top. I should say this is the place Bur- 
bidge refers to where the species were growing together, 
but wo climbed many hundred feet between finding N. 
edwardsiana and N. rajah. 
“I have again been dipping into the * Gardens of the 
Sun/ but find I cannot add anything to the particulars 
given there, which I regret, as I should have liked to help 
you in your research, had it been possible. My work was 
of the practical sort—looking after the men, our plants, 
and the pot! 
“ One last note. I always understood that Burbidge and 
I on our excursion followed the same route, or nearly so, as 
S. St. John, but routes and native villages change con¬ 
siderably in twenty years! 
“ Though I have, I fear, helped you but little, I still 
remember with the greatest delight my trip to Kinabalu. 
. . . Sir Hugh Low came to see me here several times 
after he retired from the Service, and I much enjoyed a 
chat with him.” 
It will be interesting if some future traveller can identify 
Burbidge’s route beyond all question.* 
His collections added over fifty species of Ferns to the 
Bornean list, of which thirteen were new to science. Of 
the seventeen species of Birds obtained on the two expe¬ 
ditions, five were described by B. B. Sharpe as new. 
1879. Bulletin de la Societe beige de geographie. 1881. 
“Borneo.” By J. Peltzer. 
I have not been able to consult this article, but Posewitz t 
states that this traveller “ climbed the Marei-Parei Peak 
* Mr. H. N. Ridley informs me that Mr. Burbidge wrote up his accounts 
in England, and in consequence made several inaccurate statements. Per¬ 
haps the Kinabalu puzzle is to be explained thus ; however —de mortuis nil 
nisi bonum. 
f Posewitz, p. 65. 
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