Abstract
βTHE 1934β1935 British Museum Expedition to East Africa was organized for the purpose of studying the flora and fauna of the equatorial mountains in relation to their peculiar environment.β This, the opening paragraph in Mr. Synge's book, succinctly describes the subject about which it is written, one not perhaps new, but fully deserving the attention it receives at the author's hands. Ruwenzori, with its gigantic lobelias and senecios and the other abnormalities distinctive of its extraordinary flora, was the main objective, but Mts. Elgon and Kenya, the Aberdares and several of the Birunga volcanoes were also visited, and although these are better known than Ruwenzori, the author contrives to present the botanical wonders that he saw and the events of the journeys to find them with a pleasing freshness.
Mountains of the Moon:
an Expedition to the Equatorial Mountains of Africa. By Patrick M. Synge. Pp. xxiv + 221 + 93 plates. (London: Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1937.) 15s. net.
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P., J. Mountains of the Moon. Nature 140, 951β952 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140951a0
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