The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [‎388r] (128/232)

GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
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NORTH AMERICA.
Alaska.
Eighth Annual Report of the Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska.—
Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, 1898. Report of the Com
missioner of Education. Yol. ii. pp. 1773-1796. Washington, 1899.
Alaska. Brady.
Report of the Governor of Alaska.—Annual Reports of the Department of the
Interior, 1898. Miscellaneous Reports. Pp. 181-227. Plan. Washington, 1898.
A frank statement of the condition of administration and economic development
in Alaska.
Mexico and Guatemala. Seler.
Auf alten Wegen in Mexiko und Guatemala. Reiseerinnerungeu und Eindriicke
aus den Jahren 1895-1897. Yon Csecilie Seler. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst
Vohsen), 1900. Size 10 x 7, pp. xxiv. and 361. Map and Illustrations. Price
20 mark. Presented by the Publisher.
The record of a journey, “not to find novelties but to seek antiquities,” in Central
Mexico and Western Guatemala. The book is very richly illustrated, a number of
hieroglyphic figures are even reproduced in colour in the text. There is a large-scale
map of the route and many sketch-maps of particular localities.
St. Pierre and Miquelon. Caperon.
Leh Colonies Franqaisee. Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Par M. Maurice Caperon.
Paris, 1900. Size 9x6. pp. 32. Map and Illustrations. Presented by M. Charles
Roux.
United States. G.Z. 6 (1900) : 117-434. Deckert.
Die Xordamerikanische Union als Weltmacht. (Ein Vortrag.) Von Dr. Emil
Deckert.
On the United States as au expanding power.
United States. Gardini.
In der Sternenbanner-Republik. Reiseerinnerungen von Dr. Carlo Gardini.
Nach der zweiten Auflage des italienischen Originals von M. Rumbauer. Olden
burg and Leipzig: A. Schwartz, [1900]. Size 8£ x 5£, pp. xvi. and 406. Map
and Illustrations. Presented by the Publisher.
The translation of this excellent Italian work into German is justified, says the
translator, because no books on travel in the United States have appeared in Germany
for a long time. The book is in the form of a narrative of an extensive tour, with
occasional appropriate digressions on the institutions and peculiarities of the country.
United States—Indians. Grinnell.
The North American Indians of To-day. By George Bird Grinnell, ph.d.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1900. Size 12J X 9, pp. 186. Illustrations. Price
21 s. net. Presented by the Publisher.
On the present number and condition of the Red Indians in the United States.
The book is illustrated by fifty-five splendid portraits of Indian chiefs, belonging to
twenty-six tribes, in native dress.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
Andes. Burckhardt.
Anales del Museo de la Plata. Seccion Geoldgica y Mineraldgica. II.—Profils
geologiques transversaux de la Cordillere Argentino-Chilienne, stratigraphic et
tectonique. Par le Dr. Carl Burckhardt. Premiere Partie du Rapport de'finitif
sur une Expe'dition geologique eflectue'e par Dr. Leo Wehrli et Dr. Carl Burck
hardt. La Plata, 1900. Size 15 X 11, pp. viii. and 136. Plates. Presented by the
Museo de La Plata.
This important work gives, in French, the full report of the researches carried on
in 1897 by Drs. Burckhardt and Wehrli in the Argentino-Chilian Andes. It is richly
provided with maps, sections, diagrams, and photographs.
Argentine-Chilian Boundary.
Argentine-Chilian Boundary. Report presented to the Tribunal appointed by Her
Britannic Majesty’s Government “ To consider and report upon the Differences
which have arisen with regard to the Frontier between the Argentine and Chilian