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14. Bruxelles, Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Médecine, 1898 , in-8°, (9)nn pp + pp 244 - 890 , with one folding map and several tables and ills. , bound in contemporary red half leather, raised gilt spine. Fine copy. This book represents the second and largest part (over 650 pp) of the congress proceedings on health in Belgium and in the Belgian Congo. The first part ( 240 pp ) dealt with the health situation in Belgium (not present here). The second part (on offer here) is complete as such and deals with the situation in the Congo Free State. It contains detailed information with statistics (meteorological, geographical and medical) on a large number of colonial settlements in Congo and describes also in detail the climate of Congo. This is certainly the most extensive study on the climate in Congo up till 1897. Provenance ; From the library of Henry Morton Stanley. This copy is inscribed by Albert Lancaster (1849 - 1908) , inspecteur du Service météorologique à l'Observatoire royal de Belgique , main rapporteur on meteorology to H.M. Stanley ; '' Hommage de M. A. Lancaster à Monsieur H. Stanley à Londres ''.…