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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2 [312v] (127/154)
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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214
GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
United States—Massachusetts. Marindin.
Tables of
Cross Sections
The shape revealed by cutting vertically through a land surface at right angles to the feature of interest.
on the North Shores of Nantucket and Martha’s Vine
yard, Massachusetts. By H. L. Marindin. Report of the Superintendent of the
TJ.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, showing the progress of the work during the Fiscal
Year ending with June, 1896. Bp. 305-346. \\ ashington, 1897. Size 12 x 9£.
These measurements were made with the object of determining the position of the
shore-line as a measure of past erosion, and as a standard from which future erosion
may be calculated.
United States—Michigan. Science 7 (1898) : 577-585. Spalding.
A Natural History Survey of Michigan. By Prof. V. M. Spalding.
Historical account of the natural history survey of Michigan.
United States—Ozark Region. Science 7 (1898) : 588-589. Keyes.
The Myth of the Ozark Isle. By Dr. Charles R. Keyes.
The outcrop of the dome-like Ozark Uplift of ancient rocks in the midst of the
more recent sediments of the Mississippi Basin, has been held to prove the existence
of an island in the Palaeozoic ocean which had never since been submerged; but the
author points out evidence of the phenomenon being due to a comparatively recent
uplift followed by extensive denudation.
United States—Pennsylvania. Bascom-
Department of the Interior. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey.
No. 136. The Ancient Volcanic Rocks of South Mountain, Pennsylvania. By
Florence Bascom. Washington, 1896. Size 9£ x 6, pp. 124. Maps and Flates.
Presented by the Survey.
United States—Sierra Nevada. Turner.
Further Contributions to the Geology of the Sierra Nevada. By H. W. Turner.
Part i. Pp. 529-740. Maps and Illustrations. Washington, 1896. Size 12 x 8.
—Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey . . . 1895-96.
United States—Wisconsin. J. Geology 6 (1898): 182-192. Squier.
Studies in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin. II. By G. H. Squier. With Sketch-
Maps.
On the character and origin of land-forms.
Washington and British Columbia. Hodges.
Mining in the Pacific North-West. A Complete Review of the Mineral Resources
of Washington and British Columbia. Edited by L. K. Hodges. Seattle, 1897.
Size 9x6, pp. 192. Maps. Presented by the Editor.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
British Guiana Boundary. Rev. G. 42 (1898): 356-360. Pariset.
Le Conteste' anglo-ve'ne'zueTien en Guyane. Par G. Pariset.
British West Indies. J.iZ. CoZomal/. 29 (1898): 313-344. Carrington.
Our West Indian Colonies. By George Carrington, b.a.
This paper deals mainly with the economic conditions of the West Indies.
Chile. Tour du Monde 2 (1896): 577, 589, 601, 613; 4 (1898): 181, 193, 205. Cordemoy.
Au Chili. Par M. C. de Cordemoy. With Illustrations.
Chile and Argentine Boundary. Ann. G. 7 (1898): 239-262. Delachaux.
La question des limites chilo-argentines. Examen d’un article du Dr. Steffen.
Par M. Henri F. Delachaux. With Map.
Also separate copy. Presented by the Author.
Colombia. Verh. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 25 (1898): 167-176. Regel.
Herr Prof. Dr. Fritz Regel: Uber seine Reisen im nordwestlichen Kolumbien
1896-97. With Map.
Costa Rica. Ann. Hydrographic 26 (1898): 102-104.
Naranjo (Costa Rica). Juli 1897.
On the harbour of Naranjo.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (72 folios)
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- The Geographical Journal xx Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London xx Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
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