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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
* n< ^ a - Chattopadhyaya.
Descriptive Geography of India, with a Detailed Account of Bengal for the use
of Schools and Pathasalas. Compiled by Sasi Bhusan Chattopadhyaya. Twentieth
Edition. [In Bengali.] Calcutta: B. L. Chakravarti. 1893. Size 7 x 4i. Maps.
Presented by the Author.
India - /.S'. Arts 45 (1897): 161-178. Lee-Warner.
Moral Advance of the Peoples of India during the Reign of Queen Victoria. Bv
William Lee-Warner, m.a., c.s.i.
India. Co ta.
Quarto Centenario do Descobrimento da India. Contribuicjoes da Soeiedado de
Geographia de Lisboa. A Viagem da India. Poemeto em dois cantos. Por
rernandes Costa. Lisboa: Imp. Nacional, 1896. Size 10 x 6^, pp. 42.
India—Madras.
Report of the Condition and Progress of the G. V. Juggarow Observatory, Vizaga-
patam. Including the Results of Observations for the year 1895. Published by
,7,® General Committee, G. V. Juggarow Observatory, Vizagapatam. Calcutta,
1896. Size 9* x 6J, pp. 50 . o r*
India—Wrecks. Creagh.
Return of \\ recks and Casualties in Indian Waters for the year 1895, together
with a Chart showing the positions in which they occurred, and a Diagram show-
< ] < ? m P ara ^ ve number of the reported maritime casualties, etc., the total tonnage,
and the number of lives lost, for the past twenty years. Prepared by B. P. Creagh,
Commander r.i.m. Calcutta, 1896. Size 13£ x 8£, pp. 66.
Japan> Siebold.
Nippon. Archiv zur Boschreibung von Japan und dessen Nebcn- und Schutzlandern
. ezo imt den siidlichen Kurilen, Sachaliu, Korea und den Liukiu-Inseln. Von
i. hr. von Siebold. Herausgegeben von seinen Sohnen. Erster Band. Zweite
.oo g f; WUrzbur S und Leipzig: Leo Woerl, 1897. Size 11 x 74, pp. xxxvi. and
422. Map and Illustrations. Price 10s.
Ibis re-publication of the standard work describing the state of Japan in the
secon quarter of the present century, before its opening to European influence, is
appropriately prefaced by a short biography of the author.
Japan—Earthquake. Quarterly J. Geolog. S. 53 (1897) : 1-15. Davison.
On the Distribution in Space of the Accessory Shocks of the Great Japanese
earthquake of 1891. By Charles Davison, sc.D. With Illustrations.
Japan—Earthquake at Sea. Petermanns M. 43 (1897): 34-37. Rein.
Das Seebeben von Kamaishi am 15 Juni 1896. Von Prof. Dr. J. Rein. With Map.
Japan—Formosa. M.G. Ges. (fur Thiinngen) Jena 15 (1897) : 1-21. Mackay.
Tamsui 611 Aborigilials,iimmen Formosas. Von Miesionar Dr. th. G. L. Mackay in
Japan—Formosa. B.S.G. Madrid 38 (1896): 210-277. Mencarini.
lormosa. Apuntes para un estudio. Por Dr. Juan Mencarini.
Japan—Kiushiu. B.S.G. Commerc. Havre 13 (1896): 185-212. Lievre.
S erUpti0n Unique au Japon. Par M. D. Lievre. With Maps and lllustra-
Mftrreh ?- ° f * eru P tlon of Higashi Kirishima in Kiushiu which occurred on
March lo, 1896 at the moment when the author was on the edge of the crater. His
fntnoi e - 1 le( ?’ and he hlmself burel y escaped with his life. The description of-the
actual eruption is very graphic.
Japan—Kuril Islands. Snow
Notes on the Kuril Islands. By Captain H. J. Snow. London: John Murray,
Fll a 6 ^ X 6 ’ PP ’ 92 ‘ Charts. Price to Fellows of the Society, 2s.; to non-
Captam H. J. Snow embodies in this little volume (which is one of the extra
publications of the R.G.S.) a vast amount of personal observation on the little-known
group of the Kuril islands. The charts are of very great value. They show the
correct positions of many of the islands for the first time, and also contain the position
of many harbours, rocks, shoals, fide-rips, etc., which had not previously been charted.
Prof. John Milne concludes a brief prefatory note thus: “In short, after shipwrecks,
risks,and dangers, the escapes from which have often seemed incredible, independently