The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume IX, No. 4 [240v] (151/172)
The record is made up of 1 volume (81 folios). It was created in Apr 1897. 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.
Astrup. Norshe G. Sehk. Aarb. 7 (1896) : 117-120. Welhaven.
Etvind Astrup. Hj. Welhaven. With Portrait and Illustration.
A picture is given of the granite obelisk erected in memory of Astrup, on which is-
carved a large map of Greenland, showing the north coast along which he travelled.
Dupleix. Rev. Franpaise 22 (1897): 65-72. Bonvalot.
Le deuxieme ccntenaire de Dupleix h la Sorbonne : Discours de M. G. Bon\alot.
Hale. Science (n.s.) 5 (1897) : 216-217. Brinton.
Horatio Hale. By D. G. Brinton.
Mr. Hale was a student of American Ethnography.
Hay.
A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, p.c„ k.c.b.,
g.c.m.g.
[Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade).
, sometime Minister at
the Court of Morocco, based on his Journals and Correspondence. With a Preface
by Sir Francis W. De Winton, k.c.m.g. Loudon : John Murray, 1896. Size 9£ X 6,
pp. xviii. and 408. Portraits and Illustrations. Price 16s. Presented by the
Publisher.
This will be specially noticed.
Hodgson. Hunter.
Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson, British Resident at the Court of Nepal. By Sir
William Wilson Hunter, k.c.s.i., etc. London : John Murray, 1896. Size 9£ x 6,
pp. x. and 390. Portraits and Illustrations. Price 14«. Presented by Mrs. Brian
Hodgson.
This will be referred to in the Journal.
Jonge. Rev. Trim. 1. Hist, e G. lirazileiro 58 (1895): 23/-319. Hygino.
Relatorios e cartas de Gedeon Morris de Jonge no tempo do dominio Holandez no
Brazil. Jose Hygino.
Knight-Bruce. Mission Field £2 (1897) : 46-54.
Bishop Knight-Bruce. With Portrait, Maps, and Illustrations.
Krueger. Deutsche Rundschau G. 19 (1896) : 134,135.
Adalbert Krueger. With Portrait.
Dr. Krueger was the director of the Royal Observatory at Kiel, and died on April 21,
1896. The notice is based on an article in Himmel und Erde, viii. (1896), Part 9.
Maler. Deutsche Rundschau G. 19 (1896): 85-88.
Theobert Maler. With Portrait.
Marco Polo. Cordier.
Bibliotheque do Voyages Anciens. Centenaire de Marco Polo. Conference faite
a la Socie'te d’Etudes Italiennes le mercredi 18 decembre 1895 a la Sorbonne.
Par Henri Cordier. Paris: E. Leroux, 1896. Size 8£ X 6, pp. 114. Illustrations.
Presented by the Author.
A paper written on the sixth centenary of the return of the Polos to Venice. It
concludes an important bibliography, including editions of Marco Polo’s ‘Book’ in
eleven languages, biographies, and geographical commentaries, 156 entries in all.
Mueller. J.R.G.S. Australasia (Sydney) 6 (1896): 72-74.
Baron von Mueller.
Nansen. —
Fridtjof Nansen. Leipzig: K. F. Koehler; Kristiania: H. Bigler [1896]. Size
16£ x 13, pp. [16]. Map, Portraits, and Illustrations.
The German edition of a handsomely illustrated paper issued at Christiana shortly
after the return of the Fram.
Necrology of 1893-1895. Wolkenhauer.
Geographische Nekrologie fur die Jahre 1893, 1894, and 1895. Von Dr. W.
Wolkenhauer in Bremen. From Gtographisches Jahrbuch, xix. Bd. 1897.
Pp. [38]. Size 8% x 6.
Palmieri. Deutsche Rundschau G. 19 (1896): 88-89. Wolkenhauer.
Luigi Palmieri. Von W. Wolkenhauer. With Portrait and Illustration.
Rebeur-Paschwitz. Gerland.
Ernst Ludwig August v. Rebeur-Paschwitz. Von G. Gerland.—Beitrage zur
Geophysik. Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Georg Gerland. III. Band. 1 Heft.
Pp. 16-18. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1896. Size 9J x 6.
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A summary of the journal's contents appears on folio 168, and the entire contents are listed on folio 169.
The contents of the journal are as follows.
Articles:
- 'The First Crossing of Spitsbergen' by Sir William Martin Conway (ff 177-190)
- 'Two years' travel in Uganda, Unyoro and on the Upper Nile' by C F S Vandeleur (ff 191-203)
- 'The Southern Borderlands of Afghanistan' by Captain Arthur Henry McMahon (ff 203-214)
- 'The Perso-Baluch Boundary' By Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich (ff 214-217)
- 'The River Oder.' (ff 217-219)
- 'The Teaching of Geography in Relation to History' by Arthur Westlake Andrews (ff 220-226).
Other items:
- The Monthly Record (ff 227-233)
- Obituary (f 233)
- Correspondence (ff 233-234)
- Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1896-1897 (f 234)
- Geographical Literature of the Month (ff 234-241)
- New Maps (ff 241-242).
The journal features advertisements at the front and rear.
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- 1 volume (81 folios)
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