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Moresby on May 19th, and would return with his birds 
straight to England in order to prepare for the new ex¬ 
pedition into Central New Guinea, which was announced 
in our number for January (see above, p. 194). The pre¬ 
parations for this expedition are well advanced, although it 
will not start so early as was originally intended. Mr. 
Goodfellowand the other members of the expedition will leave 
in October next for the Kei Islands, south of New Guinea, 
where all the necessary preparations will be made. When 
everything is ready, the expedition will move on to the coast 
of Dutch New Guinea, and make their actual start into 
the interior, towards the Charles Louis Mountains, early in 
January. A base camp will probably be formed on the 
foot-hills of the mountains. 
It has been definitely arranged, as announced in ‘ The 
Times’ of May 29th, that a survey-party shall accompany 
the expedition, under the leadership of Captain C. G. 
Rawling, who has just been awarded the Murchison Grant 
by the Royal Geographical Society for his excellent work 
in Western Tibet. The expenses of this part of the work 
will be defrayed by the Royal Geographical Society. 
Captain Rawling will be accompanied by at least one assis¬ 
tant, who has taken the society’s diploma in surveying with 
distinction. Captain Rawling himself will probably proceed 
to India in September, in order to engage some Ghurkas, 
who will accompany the expedition as a guard. It is hoped 
that Captain Rawling’s party will be able to make a satis¬ 
factory survey of the magnificent range of snow-capped 
mountains which stretch for a very great distance through 
the southern part of Dutch New Guinea. 
Mr. A. S. Neave’s Second Expedition to South Africa .— 
In January 1908 (see f Ibis,’ 1908, p. 203) we announced 
that Mr. Neave had left England on a new expedition to 
Southern Congo-land and Rhodesia. Mr. Neave, who has 
now returned home, spent nearly the whole of 1907 in the 
Katanga District of the Congo Free State, and visited the 
upper portions of the Lufira, Lualaba, and Lubundi Rivers. 
The last is not far from the frontier of Angola. After 
