The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2

Content

A summary of the journal's contents appears on folio 252, and the entire contents are listed on folio 253. The contents of the journal are as follows.

Articles:

• 'On the Annual Range of Temperature in the Surface Waters of the Ocean, and its Relation to Other Oceanographical Phenomena' by Sir John Murray (ff 260-272)
• 'An Exploration in 1897 of Some of the Glaciers of Spitsbergen' by Sir William Martin Conway (ff 272-278 and ff 281-284)
• 'Mr Frazer's Pausanias' by Reverend Henry Fanshawe Tozer (ff 284-286)
• 'Proposal for an Expedition to Sannikoff Land' by Baron Eduard von Toll (ff 286-291)
• 'Russian Navigators in the Arctic Ocean in 1895-96' by Colonel J Shokalsky (ff 291-293)
• 'United States Daily Atmospheric Survey' by Willis L Moore (ff 293-295)
• ' Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Notes' by Captain Arthur William Stiffe (ff 295-296).

Other items:

• Pamphlet on a forthcoming work entitled 'Northwards over the Great Ice' by Robert E Peary (ff 279-280)
• Areas of North America and Australian River-basins (ff 296-297)
• The Glaciers of Russia in 1896 (ff 297-298)
• The Monthly Record (ff 298-303)
• Obituary (ff 303-306)
• Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1897-98 (f 306)
• Geographical Literature of the Month (ff 306-316)
• New Maps (ff 316-318).

The journal features advertisements at the front and rear.

Extent and format

1 volume (72 folios)

It is part of

Copies of Journals Containing Articles on Persia and the Persia Gulf

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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 252-326

History of this record

Date(s)

Aug 1898 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

The Geographical Journal

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