The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2 [307v] (117/154)
The record is made up of 1 volume (72 folios). It was created in Aug 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
United Kingdom—England. Quarterly J.R. Meteoroloy. S. 24 (1808): 31-41. Mossman.
Daily Values of Non-Instrumental Meteorological Phenomena in London, 1763-
1896. By R. C. Mossman. With Diagrams.
A note on this paper was given in the Monthly Record for June, vol. xi. p. 662.
United Kingdom—England. Fortnightly Rev. 63 (1898): 479-485. Warren.
The Westminster “Improvement” Scheme. By E. P. Warren. With Plan.
The plan shows the projected rebuilding of part of Westminster, the bill to authorize
which has failed to pass the House of Commons.
United Kingdom—Ethnography. British Assoc. Reports (1897) : 452-512.
Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom. Fifth Report of the Committee.
This report contains a further report on the Folklore of Galloway by the late Rev.
Walter Gregor, reports of the ethnographical surveys in Wigtonshire, Kircudbrightshire,
and East Anglia, and anthropometric notes relating to Aberdeen, Banffshire, the isle of
Lewis, and Cleckheaton in Yorkshire, concluding with a report on tl.e ethnographic
survey of Ireland.
United Kingdom—Food-supply. Nineteenth Century 43 (1898): 879-889. Marston.
Our Urgent Need of a Reserve of Wheat. By R. B. Marston. With Diagram.
United Kingdom—Geology. T. Edinburgh Geolog. S. 7 (1897) : 2C3-222. Goodchild.
Desert Conditions in Britain. An Address to the Geological Society of Edinburgh,
at their Opening Meeting on November 19, 1896. By J. G. Goodchild. With
Plate.
This was referred to in the Monthly Record for June, vol. xi. p. 662.
United Kingdom—Geological. British Assoc. Reports (1897): 298-332. Watts.
Photographs of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom.—Eighth Report of the
Committee.
The work of this committee has been carried on energetically, 361 new photographs
of geological interest having been added within the year 1896-97, and the whole
collection, which is preserved in the Jermyn Street Museum, now includes 1751, dealing
with the various divisions of the country as follows: England, 1027; Wales, 122;
Channel Islands, 14; Isle of Man, 30; Scotland, 166; Ireland, 312; and typical rock
structures, 50.
United Kingdom—Ireland. Gardiner and Reynolds.
Quarterly J. Geolog. S. 54 (1898): 135-148.
The Bala Beds and Associated Igneous Rocks of Lambay Island, co. Dublin. By
C. I. Gardiner and S. H. Rej nolds. With Map and Sections.
A geological map of Lambay island is given on the scale of 4 inches to the mile.
United Kingdom—Ireland. T.R. Irish A. 31 (1897): 23-38. Coffey.
Notes on the Prehistoric Cemetery of Loughcrew, with Fasciculus of Photographic
Illustrations of the Sepulchral Cairns. By George Coffey.
United Kingdom—Ireland. P.R. Dublin S. 8 (1897): 421-431. Kilroe.
The Distribution of Drift in Ireland in its relation to Agriculture. By J. R.
Kilroe. With Map.
United Kingdom—Ireland. P.R. Dublin S. 8 (1897): 475-507. Praeger and Sollas.
Report of the Committee . . . appointed by the Royal Dublin Society to investi
gate the recent Bog-flow in Kerry. Drawn up by R. Lloyd Praeger and Prof.
Sollas. With Plates.
United Kingdom—Meteorology.
Report of the Meteorological Council, for the Year ending 31st of March, 1897, to
the President and Council of the Royal Society. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode,
1897. Size 10 X 6J, pp. 124. Map. Price 8d. Presented by the Meteorological
Council.
United Kingdom—Meteorology.
Official No. 129. Meteorological Observations at Stations of the Second Order for
the Year 1894. With Frontispiece Mep. Published by Direction of the Meteoro
logical Council. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. Size 12£ x 10, pp. 184.
Price 27s. Presented by the Meteorological Council.
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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.
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- 1 volume (72 folios)
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