Field journal : Archbold 1936 New Guinea Exp. February 27, 1936 to July 8, 1937
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"the 'nearer range' (or [illegible] end of Mt. Saw) Macgregor Peaks and the 'more distant' (or Mt. Jean) D'Albertis Dome. But returning again to Macgregor's concept of the Victor Emmanuel Range, we read (p. 60) that the Victor Emmanuel Range lay directly behind a lower range which he called Mt. Donaldson. "In between the north-east end of Mt. Donaldson and the Victor Emmanuel there is fitted the bold western end of a very steep & rugged mountain range" (named by him Mt. Blucher), and "a large branch of this mountain [Blucher] proceeds for about its central portion in a north-easterly direction [i.e. Mt. Tungom]... but whether it joins the great Victor Emmanuel Range farther north couldn't be seen." He states that his "plate 4 indicates the appearance of the foregoing from a distance of 'twenty- twenty-five miles'; but when the ranges which according to the drawing are plotted it would prove to have been much closer; and besides, see also a few sentences before, he states that Donaldson was 'about ten miles' away. From "plate 4" it seems that the mass of hills to the west marked "a" & carrying a