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Abstract

AFTER a rather prolonged delay, the Commission for the delimitation of the Anglo-French frontier in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, in accordance with the West African agreement between Great Britain and France of August 10,1889, has been appointed. Captain Kenney, R.E., the British Commissioner, with his party, proceeded to Sierra Leone by the steamer of November 14 last. The Secretary of State for the Colonies permitted the Director of Kew to nominate a botanist to accompany the expedition, and the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society made a grant to meet his expenses, part of which will also be borne by the Government of Sierra Leone. The mission has been undertaken by Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot, M.A. Camb., B.Sc. Edinb., F.L.S., who has recently published in the Journal of the Linnean Society an account of the new species of plants found by him in a journey through a little known part of Southern Madagascar. The botany of the interior of Sierra Leone is very little known, but is believed to be of great interest. The Commission will be absent about six months. It will proceed in the first instance to Falaba, and then proceed to the point of intersection of the 10th parallel of North latitude and the 13th meridian (French) of West longitude.