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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
of the Survey executed by Sir Thomas Maclear, f.r.s., in the years 1841 48, by
David Gill. Cape Town: W. A. Richards & Sons, 1896. Size 13 x 8£, pp. xiv.,
174, and 292. Maps, Plates, and Diagrams.
This is a report of the utmost scientific value, presenting the full record of the great
geodetic survey of South Africa, which forms the basis of all future cartography in
that region. Dr. Gill’s paper on the subject printed in the Report of the Sixth Inter
national Geographical Congress presents in brief the results which are here set forth
at length.
Sudan Almanac.
Sudan Almanac, 1896. Compiled at the Intelligence Division, \\ ar Office. Size,
6x4, pp. 18.
Transvaal.
Transvaal, die Siidafrikanische Republik. I. Geschichtliche und wirthschaftliche
Entwickelung. Eine Studie von — R. Berlin : Commissions-Verlag von Kuhling
& Guttner, [no date]. Size 8J x 6, pp. 30.
Transvaal. Aburrow.
Report of work done and general information relating to the Public Works Depart
ment of the Johannesburg Gezondheids Comite, S.A.R., for year ending December
31, 1895. By Clms. Aburrow. Johannesburg, 1896. Size 13 x 8, pp. 22 and 8.
Presented by the Author.
Tripoli. Mem S.G. Italiana 6 (1896): 103-140. Bricchetti-Robecchi.
II commercio di Tripoli, relazione del socio d’onore cav. ing. L. Bricchetti-Robecchi.
Tripoli—Cyrenaica. G/obus 70 (1896): 236-240. Grothe.
Ein Besuch in Bengasi (Cyrenaika). Yon Hugo Grothe.
Tunis. Ann. G. 5 (1896) : 386-406. Larminat.
Etude sur les formes du terrain dans le Sud do la Tunisie (Frontiere de la
Tripolitaine). Par le captitaine E. de Larminat. With Map and Illustrations.
West Africa—Borgu. B. ComiteVAfrique Franfaise 6 (18S6) : 258-263. Deville.
Dans le Borgou: Lc Royaume de Bouay. Par M. A. Deville. With Map.
West Africa — Fernando Po. B.S.G.\Madrid 38 (1896) : 49-56. Bonelli.
Exploraciones en Fernando Poo. Por D. Emilio Bonelli. With Illustrations.
Recent explorations by missionaries are referred to.
NORTH AMERICA.
Canada—Hudson Bay. American J. Science (4) 2 (1896) : 200-205. Tyrrell.
Is the land around Hudson Bay at present rising? By J. Burr Tyrrell, of the
Geological Survey of Canada.
Mexico. P.I. Civil Engineers 125 (1896): 243-281. Corthell.
The Tampico Harbour Works, Mexico. By E. L. Corthell, d.sc., etc. With Plate
and Dlustrations.
Includes the record of automatic tide-gauges on the.Gulf of Mexico.
United States—Bureau of Ethnology. Powell.
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92. By J. W. Powell, Director. Washington, 1896.
Size 12 x 8, pp. lx. and 462. Illustrations.
In addition to the official report, this volume contains papers on prehistoric textile
art of Eastern United States, by W. H. Holmes; on stone art, by Gerard Fowke; on
aboriginal remains and native dwellings in Arizona and Omaha, by various writers ;
and a remarkable translation of Zuni creation myths, by F. H. Cushing, showing the
primitive ideas of the wanderings of the human race largely actuated by the search for
the middle of the Earth.
United States—California. Perrine.
Earthquakes in California in 1894. By Charles D. Perrine.—Bulletin of the
United States Geological Survey. No. 129. Washington, 1895. Size, 9J X 6,
pp. 26. Presented by the U.S. Geological Survey.
United States—California—San Francisco Peninsula. Lawson.
Sketch of the Geology of the San Francisco Peninsula. By Andrew C. Lawson.—
Fifteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary