The British Ornithologists' Union, founded 1858, took many expeditions to New Guinea lead by Sandy Wollaston in search of research specimens.
The BOU was founded in 1858 by Professor Alfred Newton, Henry Baker Tristram and other scientists. Wollaston participated in the BOU Expedition to the Snow Mountains of Netherlands New Guinea in 191011. The main aim was to climb the highest mountains there as well as to collect biological and ethnological specimens. 
