Through unknown African countries
Subtitle: the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu
By: by A. Donaldson Smith ... ; illustrated.
Contributors: Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1830-1914.; Simon, Eugène, 1848-1924.; Pocock, R. I. 1863-1947.; Holland, W. J. 1848-1932.; Gregory, J. W. 1864-1932.; Crick, G. C. 1856-1917.; Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.; Jordan, Karl, 1861-1959.; Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Library (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office
Published: 1897
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: Natural history -- Africa, East; Scientific expeditions -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- Description and travel
Notes: Advertisements at end.
Issued in publisher's gold-stamped pictorial cloth binding (title and elephant's head with golden tusks within ruled borders).
LC Copy 2 in original binding; has armorial bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt.
Table of contents: title: Appendices: A. Report on a collection of fishes made by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his expedition to Lake Rudolf / by Dr. Albert Günther; title: V. Order Araneae / by Eugène Simon; title: C. Solifugae, Scorpiones, Chilopoda, and Diplopoda / by R.I. Pocock; title: D. List of Lepidoptera Heterocera collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith / by W.J. Holland; title: E. Note on Dr. Donaldson Smith's geological collection / by J.W. Gregory; title: F. On the fossil Cephalopoda from Somaliland collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith / by G.C. Crick; title: G. Catalogue of ethnographical objects from Somaliland and the Galla country collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith, in Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania / by Stewart Culin; title: H. Lists of a few words spoken by the Konso, Dume, and Arbore (Amar) tribes; title: I. Coleoptera / by Dr. Karl Jordan; title: J. Emperor Menelek's letter (French translation).