Browsing by Author "Sclater, W.L."

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The Avifauna of the Mountains Along the Rift Valley in North Central Tanganyika Territory (Mbulu District). -Parts I. and II
(1936) Moreau, R.E.; Sclater, W.L.
A large area of northern Tanganyika lying mid-way between the Indian Ocean and Victoria Nyanza is still very imperfectly known to biological science. This paper deals with a section, c ntred about 150 miles west of Kilimanjaro, that is traversed by the Rift Valley and is physiographic ally one of the most remarkable in the African continent.
A Contribution to the Ornithology of Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.
(1936) Sclater, W.L.; Moreau, R.E.; East African Agricultural Research Station, Amani
Although Kilimanjaro is the greatest mountain in Africa and was explored first by an Englishman (the missionary New, in 1871), it has been neglected by British scientific workers. Apart from Johnston's account (1886) of his visit fifty years ago there appears to be no other first-hand description of Kilimanjaro in an English publication until Gillman's (1923). This is the more surprising because, since the establishment of a series of climbers' huts, the ascent to the top of the life-zone at 15,000 ft. is easy enough to be made by dozens of tourists every year.