The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6

Content

A summary of the journal's contents appears on folio 327, and the entire contents are listed on folio 328. The contents of the journal are as follows.

• The President's Opening Address, Session 1900-1901 (ff 336-337).

Articles:

• 'The Expedition between Lake Rudolf and the Nile' by Dr Arthur Donaldson Smith (ff 337-350) and a Map of North East Africa (f 394)
• 'The Voyages of Diogo Cão and Bartholomeu Dias, 1482-88' by Ernst Georg Ravenstein (ff 350-365) and Map illustrating the voyage (f 402)
• 'The Oases of the Mudirieh of Assyut' by A R Guest (ff 365-368)
• 'The Danish East Greenland Expedition in 1900' by Lieutenant Georg Carl Amdrup (ff 368-370)
• 'On the Afghan Frontier: A Reconnaissance in Shugnan' communicated by Dr A Marcoff (ff 370-377).

Other items:

• The Monthly Record (ff 377-383)
• Correspondence (ff 383-384)
• Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1900-1901 (f 384)
• Geographical Literature of the Month (ff 384-391)
• New Maps (ff 391-393).

The journal features advertisements at the front and rear.

Extent and format

1 volume (111 folios)

It is part of

Copies of Journals Containing Articles on Persia and the Persia Gulf

1501 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/393

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Mss Eur F111/393, ff 327-440

History of this record

Date(s)

Dec 1900 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

The Geographical Journal

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