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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [370v] (93/232)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in Dec 1900. 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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666 ON THE AFGHAN FKONTiER: A RECONNAISSANCE IN SHUGNAN.
A SMALL GLACIER EAST OF KAUGERDLUGSUAK.
home. An interesting ethnographical collection was made in the old
huts and graves of the Eskimo. Especially interesting is a collection
found at 68° 10' lat., and sixteen skulls from old graves were obtained.
Xo Eskimo lived on the unknown coast from Scoresby sound to 65° 4b'
of Angmagsalik. Xo traces of Andree or of Blosseville were seen.
Hydrographical researches were made occasionally. Astronomical and
magnetical determinations were made at many different localities on the
coast.
ON THE AFGHAN FRONTIER : A RECONNAISSANCE IN
SHUGNAN.*
(Notes from a Russian Officer’s Journal.)
These notes are derived from the journal of a Russian officer, Lieut.-Colonel A.
Serebrennikov, who was a member of one of two reconnoitring parties, despatched
by the Russian Government into the little-known country of Shugnan from the
Pamirsky Post during the year 1894.
The first party, of which Mr. Serebrennikov was a member, penetrated through
the valley of the Shakh-Dara, whilst the second confined itself to the valley of the
Gund river. Both parties ultimately united in the valley of the Kharokh river,
near fort Kala-i-Bar-Panja, the capital of the Khanate of Shugnan.
This region is almost virgin ground for the explorer, most of the particulars
we have of it at present being derived from hearsay. In view of this fact, and also
Communicated by Dr. A. Markoff.
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A summary of the journal's contents appears on folio 327, and the entire contents are listed on folio 328. The contents of the journal are as follows.
- The President's Opening Address, Session 1900-1901 (ff 336-337).
Articles:
- 'The Expedition between Lake Rudolf and the Nile' by Dr Arthur Donaldson Smith (ff 337-350) and a Map of North East Africa (f 394)
- 'The Voyages of Diogo Cão and Bartholomeu Dias, 1482-88' by Ernst Georg Ravenstein (ff 350-365) and Map illustrating the voyage (f 402)
- 'The Oases of the Mudirieh of Assyut' by A R Guest (ff 365-368)
- 'The Danish East Greenland Expedition in 1900' by Lieutenant Georg Carl Amdrup (ff 368-370)
- 'On the Afghan Frontier: A Reconnaissance in Shugnan' communicated by Dr A Marcoff (ff 370-377).
Other items:
- The Monthly Record (ff 377-383)
- Correspondence (ff 383-384)
- Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, Session 1900-1901 (f 384)
- Geographical Literature of the Month (ff 384-391)
- New Maps (ff 391-393).
The journal features advertisements at the front and rear.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (111 folios)
- Written in
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 327-440
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6
- Pages
- 328r:439v
- Author
- 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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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 327-440
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6
- Pages
- 368v:370v
- Author
- Amdrup, Sir Georg Carl
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- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 327-440
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6
- Pages
- 370v:377r
- Author
- Marcoff, A
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- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence