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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2 [‎313r] (128/154)

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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.
215
Cuba. Fortnightly Rev. 63 (1898): 855-866. Lee.
Cuba and her Struggle for Freedom. By Major-General Fitzhugh Lee.
Ecuador and Peru—Amazons. Z. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 32 (1897) : 360-409. Rimbach.
Reise im Gebiet des oberen Amazonas. Yon Dr. A. Rimbach. With Map.
Haiti. Deutsche Rundschau G. 20 (1898): 289-298, 355-364. Fischer-Treuenfeld.
Reminiscenzen eines ha'itianischen Regierungsbeamten. Yon R. v. Fischer-
Treuenfeld. With Illustration.
Deals largely with the economic conditions of the Haitian Republic.
Paraguay. B.S.G. Madrid 39 (1897), (Suppl.) : 1-86. Garay.
El Comunismo de las Misiones de la Compafiia de Jesus en el Paraguay. Confer
ence pronunciada por D. Bias Garay.
Patagonia. C. Rd., S.G. Paris (1898): 98-102. De la Vaulx.
A travers la Patagonie, du Rio Negro au De'troit de Magellan. Par le comte Henry
de la Vaulx. With Map.
South America. Tmer (1898): 31-48. Hultkrantz.
Nagra bidrag till Sydamerikas fysiska antropologi. Af J. Hultkrantz. With
Illustrations.
A study of the anthropological collections brought back from Nordenskiold and
Dusen’s expedition in the extreme south of South America.
West Indies. Morris.
Royal Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. Additional Series
I. Report on the Economic Resources of the West Indies, by D. Morris, c.m.g., etc.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1898. Size 9J X 6, pp. viii. and 166. Maj). Price
Is. 6d. Presented by the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
West Indies—Cuba. Fortnightly Rev. 63 (1898): 705-722. Davey.
Glimpses of Havana and the Havanese. By Richard Davey.
AUSTRALASIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS.
Queensland—Ethnology. Roth-
Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. By
Walter E. Roth. Brisbane, 1897. Size 10 x 6£, pp. xvi. and 200. Map and
Plates. Presented by the Agent-General for Queensland.
A very remarkable original study of the Queensland aborigines.
Rotuma. Quarterly J. Geolog. S. 51 (1898): 1-11. Gardiner.
The Geology of Rotuma. By J. Stanley Gardiner. With an Appendix by
H. Woods. With Map and Plan.
This is the subject of a note, p. 193.
Society Islands. A travers le Monde, Tour du Monde 4 (1898) : 97-100.
L’Expedition de Raiatea en 1897. With Illustrations.
The expedition the visit of which to the Society islands is here described was sent
out in order to bring the islands effectively under the control of France.
South Australia—Horn Expedition. Petermanns M. 44 (1898): 1-9. Hahn.
Die Horn-Expedition in Zentralaustralien und ihre geographischen Ergebnisse.
Von Prof. Dr. F. Hahn. With Map.
Tasmania and New Zealand. Deutsche G. Blatter 21 (1898): 22-30. Greffrath.
Geographisch-statistische Uebersicht ixber die australischen Kolonien. IV. Die
Inselkolonie Tasmauien. V. Die Kolonie Neu-Seeland. Von Henry Greffrath.
Western Australia. Maitland.
Reports by the Government Geologist in connection with the Water Supply of the
Goldfields. Perth. Size 13 x 8£, pp. 8. Maps. Presented by the Government
Geologist.
Western Australia.
The Abrolhos Tragedy. Australia’s First White Residents. The Batavia’s
Castaways. How they Fought and Suffered. [First Complete Translation in

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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)
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English in Latin script
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