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IN 1902 the Duke Adolf Friedrich visited East Africa. In 1904 he returned there and ex-plored the region immediately to the south-east of Lake Victoria Nyanza. In 1907 he started again, this time at the head of a well-equipped scientific expedition charged with the special task of exam-ining the volcanic regions west of the Victoria Nyanza and north of Tanganyika. The general results of this 1907–8 expedition have already been published, both in German and in English, the English version having been brought out by Cassell and Co. in 1910. The Duke, after leading his expedition through the countries of Karagwe, Ruanda (including the Kivu district), and the Virunga volcanoes, travelled past Lake Edward Nyanza to the Semliki, the Albert Nyanza, the gold-mines of Kilo, and then westwards through the Ituri Forest and down the Aruwimi to the main Congo, and so back to Germany by the Atlantic Ocean.
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Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition, 190–8, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band iii., Zoologie i., herausgegeben von Dr. H. Schubotz. Pp. xxiii + 560 + plates xi-xiv. (Leipzig: Klinkhart and Biermann, 1912.) Price 24. marks.
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JOHNSTON, H. Scientific Collections of the German Central Africa Expedition of 1907—1908.1. Nature 90, 110–111 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090110a0
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