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ALTHOUGH the island of Sokotra is often seen by passengers on the great ocean steamers which pass by the Sokotran Archipelago on their voyages to and from India, eastern Asia and Australia, the fauna had been very imperfectly investigated when, in 1898, a party was dispatched by the joint exertions of the British and Liverpool Museums for the purpose of collecting specimens of the animals, vertebrate and invertebrate. The botany of Sokotra itself had been previously studied by Prof. Bayley Balfour and by Dr. Schweinfurth in 1879–81, and some collections of the animals occurring had been made by them and by other visitors to the islands, but the zoology was still incompletely known.
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B., W. Sokotra 1 . Nature 69, 199–201 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069199a0
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