The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [‎389r] (130/232)

GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH. 703
ATTSTBALASIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS.
British New Guinea. Winter.
British New Guinea. Report for 1898-99. Colonial Reports, Annual No. 292,
1900. Size 10 x 6, pp. 56. Price 3d.
Cook Islands. Gudgeon.
Cook Islands. Report for 1899. Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous, No. 13, 1900.
Size 10 x 6£, pp. 16. Price Id.
French Pacific Islands. Lemasson.
Notice sur les Etablissements Frainjais de I’Oceanie. (Exposition Universelle de
1900.) Size 9£ X 6§, pp. 128. Map and Illustrations. Presented by M. Charles
Roux.
This report passes in review all the Polynesian islands now under the French flag
and gives statistics regarding them.
Melanesia. Globus 78 (1900): 69-78. Luschan.
R. Parkinsons Beobachtungen auf Bobolo und Hun (Matty und Durour). Yon
Felix v. Luschan. With Illustrations.
These islands lying north of New Guinea in 2° S. and 143° E. are practically un
visited, and the observations of the people and their weapons here given is therefore of
special interest.
POLAR REGIONS.
Antarctic—Belgian Expedition. Cook.
Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of
the Belgica among Newly Discovered Lands and over an Unknown Sea about the
South Pole. By Frederick A. Cook, m.d. With an Appendix containing a
summary of the Scientific Results. London : W. Heinemann, 1900. Size 9J x 6£,
pp. xxiv. and 478. Maps and llustrations. Price 20«. net. Presented by the
Publisher.
This is the first account of the voyage of the Belgica published in book form. It
gives a full-description of the dreariness of the long drift in the antarctic pack, and
makes clear several defects in the equipment of the expedition, which, however, not
withstanding exceptional drawbacks, did admirable scientific work. Dr. Cook’s
photographs and coloured illustrations are in every way admirable.
Arctic—Abruzzi Expedition. National G.Mag. 11 (1900): 411-413.
Nansen’s ‘ Farthest North ’ Eclipsed. With Portraits.
With portraits of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Captain Cagni.
Arctic—Abruzzi Expedition. B.S.G. Italiana \ (ISW): 956-961. Faustini.
II ritorno della Spedizione polare di S.A.R. il Duca degli Abruzzi.
MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Astronomy. Indian Antiquary 29 (1900) : 189-190. Jacobi.
How to calculate the lagna. By Prof. Hermann Jacobi.
The term lagna means the point of the ecliptic upon the eastern horizon at a
given time.
Cartography — Reliefs. Mem. S.G. Geneve (\§00): 1-10. Claparede.
Les Reliefs Perron. Par Arthur de Claparede.
On the qualities desirable in relief models with special reference to M. Perron’s
great relief of Switzerland on the scale of 1 : 100,000.
Cartography—Reliefs. Perron.
Les Reliefs en gene'ral et du Relief au 1 : 100,000 de la Suisse en particulier.
Par C. Perron. Genhve: Librairie Stapelmohr, 1900. Size 8 X 5|, pp. 12.
Presented by the Author.
On the principles of constructing reliefs on a true scale, and a short account of the
new relief of Switzerland on the scale of 1 : 100,000. In this the heights are shown
without exaggeration, and the whole is modelled to the true curvature of the Earth.
Navigation. Dunraven.
Self-Instruction in the Practice and Theory of Navigation. By the Earl of
Dunraven. 2 vols. London : Macmillan & Co., 1900. Size 9x6, pp. (vol. i.)
xxvi. and 354; (vol. ii.) x. and 390. Diagrams. Price 2ls. net. Presented by
the Author.