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received from Mr. H. A. Lorentz, stating that his expedition 
into Central New Guinea from the South Coast has been 
successful. Mr. Lorentz’s party reached the snow-capped 
range which had previously only been dimly perceived from 
a distance. He has climbed up to these Alpine regions, 
and has discovered glaciers at an altitude of 15,000 feet. 
We shall, no doubt, soon receive further particulars. Mr. 
Lorentz's route was, we believe, up the North River, as on 
his former Expeditions. 
New Ornithological Expedition to Mongolia. —Mr. Douglas 
Carruthers has organized anew expedition in which, in con¬ 
junction with his friends Mr. J. H. Miller and Mr. M. P. 
Price, he will traverse North-Western Mongolia, and make a 
collection of its birds and other natural objects. The pro¬ 
gramme is to take the Siberian Railway as far as Krasnoyarsk, 
and thence go by steamer up the Yenesei to the Russian 
settlement of Minusinsk. At this place the expedition will 
be fitted out, and proceed southwards over the frontier into 
Chinese territory. The early spring and summer will be 
devoted to working the upper sources of the Yenesei River 
for zoological and botanical purposes. This region is chiefly 
mountainous and heavily forested. 
Erom Kobdo, which is situated to the south-w'est of the 
basin of the Upper Yenesei, a zigzag journey will be made 
through Dzungaria to Kuldja in the neighbourhood of the 
Tian-shan Mountains. This route will lead over many 
successive self-contained basins, with alternate desert and 
mountain-ranges. After this, plans will be dependent upon 
time and circumstances, but Mr. Carruthers hopes to turn 
south-eastwards, and, after wintering in the Tarim basin, to 
push on in the spring into the Chinese provinces of Kansu 
and Alashan. Mr. Miller and Mr. Carruthers will divide the 
labours of collecting animals, w hile Mr. Price will undertake 
the botany and forestry. The expedition, which has just 
started, will probably be away about a year or fifteen months. 
