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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2 [‎311v] (125/154)

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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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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
West Africa. Fortnightly Rev. 62 (1897) : 917-925. Greswell.
England and France in West Africa. By Rev. W. Greswell. With Map.
Historical references and a map of the present condition of affairs.
West Africa. B. Comittf VAfrique Frangaise 7 (1897): 415-422. Mille.
Le voyage de M. Andre Lebon dans 1’Afrique occidentale. Par M. Pierre Mille.
West Africa. B.S.G. Com. Paris 19 (1897): 729-751. Voulet.
Au Mossi et au Gourounsi. Par le capitaine Voulet, 1896-1897. With Map.
West Africa. C. Rd. S.G. Paris (1897) : 301-307. Voulet and Chanoine.
Mission Voulet-Chanoine au Mossi et au Gourouusi (1896-1897). Jonction du
Soudan au Dahomey. Objet et marche de la mission, rdsultafs obtenus; le pays
et ses habitants.
NORTH AMERICA.
Bermuda. Cole.
Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets. No. 2. Bermuda in Periodical Literature.
A Bibliography. By George Watson Cole. Boston: the Boston Book Co , 1898.
Size 6 X 4£, pp. 26. Presented by the Author.
An interesting collection of the titles of magazine articles on Bermuda, with
occasional editorial notes. The entries range in date from 1664 {Phil. Trans.) to 1897.
Canada.
Annual Report of the Department of the Interior for the Year 1897. Ottawa,
1898. Size 10 X 6£, pp. [596]. Plates and Maps.
This report deals with the Dominion lands, the Dominion land-surveys, irrigation,
immigration, together with special reports on the North-West Territories, Keewatin,
the Rocky Mountains Park, and the Swan River valley.
Canada—Alberta. Appalachia % {1898): 320-327. Thompson.
At the Headwaters of the Bow. By Charles S. Thompson. With Illustrations.
Canada—British Columbia.
Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year ending December 31, 1897,
being an account of Mining Operations for Gold, Coal, etc., in the Province of
British Columbia. Victoria, B.C., 1898. Size 10£ x 7J, pp. 449-640. Map and
Plates.
Photographs are given of a number of the mines, the working of which is fully
described.
Canada—British Columbia. Appalachia 8 {1898): 327-336. Habel.
The North Fork of the Wapta. By Jean Habel. With Illustrations.
Canada—Ethnological Survey. British Assoc. Reports {1891): 440-451.
An Ethnological Survey of Canada. First Report of the Committee.
This report describes the methods by which an ethnological survey of Canada is
proposed to be carried out, and includes two appendices : one on the growth of
Toronto children, by Franz Boas; the other on the origin of the French Canadians,
by B. Suite, discussing the parts of France from which the ancestors of the present
French-speaking population came.
Canada—Historical. P. & T.R.S. Canada 2 (1896) (sect, i.) : 35-58. Gosselin.
Quelques observations a propos du voyage du P. le Jeune au Canada en 1660, et
du pre'tendu voyage de M. de Queylus en 1664. Par M. I’Abbe' Gosselin.
Canada—Hudson Bay. Wakeham
Report of the Expedition to Hudson Bay and Cumberland Gulf in the Steamship
Diana, under the command of William Wakeham, Marine and Fisheries, Canada,
in the year 1897. Ottawa, 1898. Size 10 X 6J, pp. 84. Maps and Illustrations.
Presented by the Colonial Office.
This expedition will be referred to elsewhere in the Journal.
Canada—Hudson Bay. Globus 73 (1898): 105-106. Bach.
Die Canadische Expedition zur Hudsonbai und nach Baffinland. Sommer 1897.
Von R. Bach.
An account of the Canadian expedition, which will be fully described in the Journal.

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Content

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.

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1 volume (72 folios)
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English in Latin script
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