Prof. Steere's Expedition to the Philippines

Abstract

IT may interest zoologists to know that an American gentleman, Prof. J. B. Steere, of the University of Michigan, has recently returned from an expedition to the Philippine Islands, bringing with him large collections of natural history objects. The birds he has submitted to me, and I am now engaged in preparing a memoir on the collection, which seems to be one of the most important ever made in the Indo-Malayan Islands. In spite of the great difficulties which meet the traveller in the Philippine group, and notwithstanding severe attacks of fever, Dr. Steere exerted himself with great energy, and as he visited many islands in which no previous collection had ever been made, it is not surprising that many novelties occur in the one he has now brought over to England for description.