726 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant : Boyd Alexander 
and accompanied only by bis faithful Portuguese collector, 
Jose Lopez, Alexander pushed on across Africa by way 
of the Shari and Welle Rivers, and surmounting all dangers 
and difficulties eventually arrived safely at Khartum. The 
details of this great journey are still fresh in the memory 
of most of us, the story having been graphically told by 
Alexander in two large volumes bearing the title f From the 
Niger to the Nile.’ 
On the 13th of May, 1907, he gave an account of this 
Expedition before the Royal Geographical Society at 
Burlington Gardens, where he received a most enthusiastic 
reception, and his graphic account of his journey with 
its triumphs and misfortunes, told in the simplest language, 
will not easily be forgotten by those who were present. \_Cf. 
Geographical Journal, xxx. pp. 119-152 (1907).] 
Eor his geographical discoveries Alexander received the 
Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp 
in 1907, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical 
Society of London in 1908 ; he was also elected an Honorary 
Member of the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland 
in 1907. 
The ornithological results of this great journey have not 
yet been published, for though Alexander had partly written 
two papers on the Birds, he had finished neither of them when 
he started on this last journey. The new species, however, 
some 29 in number, were described in the Bulletin of the 
British Ornithologists' Club, volumes xix., xxi., and xxiii. 
One of the memorable incidents of this Expedition was 
the capture of an adult Okapi, which after being hunted for 
many days was shot by Jose in the Welle Forest. This 
interesting specimen was mounted by Messrs. Rowland Ward 
& Co. and presented by Alexander to the Natural History 
Museum, where it may now be seen in the Eastern Corridor, 
over the Great Hall. 
Boyd Alexander's name will ever be associated with the 
history of Lake Chad, and it was near that Lake that he 
ultimately met his fate and where his body lies buried. On 
his return from the Alexander-Gosling Expedition he found 
