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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [‎387v] (127/232)

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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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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
Reunion. Garsault.
Exposition Universelle de 1900. Colonies Frautjaises. Notice sur la Reunion
re'dige'e sous la direction de M. A.-Gr. Garsault. Paris: J. Andre, 1900. Size
9$ x 6, pp. 308. Map and Illustrations. Presented by M. Charles Roux.
Rhodesia.
The British South Africa Company. Information as to Mining in Rhodesia,
supplied to the British South Africa Company. 1900. Size 10| x 8£, pp. 412.
Maps. Presented by the British South Africa Company.
Reports of the work done by the numerous minor companies engaged in developing
the resources of Rhodesia. The output of gold for the first six months of 1900 averaged
over 5500 ozs. per month.
Sahara. i?er\ EVanfaise 25 (1900) : 415-420. Vasco.
Sahara : Le mission Foureau-Lamy. Par M. G. Vasco.
See also an account of this journey with illustrations in A travers le Monde, Tour du
Monde 6 (1900), pp. 293-294.
Somaliland. Swayne.
Seventeen Trips through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia. A Record of Ex
ploration and Big Game Shooting, with descriptive notes on the Fauna of the
Country.^ By Major H. G. C. Swayne. Second Edition. London: Rowland
Ward,^Limited, 1900. Size 8x5, pp. xxii. and 386. Maps and Illustrations.
Price Is. Qd. net. Presented by the Publisher.
A new edition of a well-known work of permanent interest.
Somaliland. J. Manchester G.S. 16 (1900) : 1-30. Kcettlitz.
A Journey through Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia to the Shangalla or Berta
Country and the Blue Nile, and through the Sudan to Egypt. By Dr. Reginald
Koettlitz. With Illustrations.
South Africa. Colquhoun.
The Renascence of South Africa. By Archibald R. Colquhoun. London: Hurst
& Blackett, 1900. Size 8 x 5J, pp. viii. and 300. Map. Price (is. Presented
by the Publishers.
Six chapters deal with “The Land,” “The People,” “ History,” “ The New Lands
of Promise and Disappointment ” (under which heading the author considers Mashona-
land, Matabililand, British Central and East Africa), “ The Economic Future,” and
“ The Settlement.” The author explains his object as being “ to gather together and
present in the simplest form the salient facts in the story of South Africa, and the
principal features in the problem of settlement with which, as a nation, we are face
to face.”
South Africa-Boers. Leclercq.
Les Boers et leur e'tat social. Par M. Jules Leclercq. (From ‘La Reform
Sociale, Bulletin de la Societe d’Economie Sociale et des Unions de la Paix
Sociale,’ No. 931" Janvier 1900, pp. 70-82.) Paris, 1900. Size 10 x 6*. Presented
by the Author.
Transvaal and Swazieland. P.R. Dublin S. 9 (1899) : 12-21. Lybum.
Mining and Minerals in the Transvaal and Swazieland. By E. St. John Lvburn
Wrl.h Pint# J
Tripoli-Bengazi. Alvarez.
Trade of Bengazi for the year 1899. Foreign Office, Annual No. 2456 1900 Size
10 x 6, pp. 16. Price Id.
Tunis. Deutsche Rundschau G. 22 (1900) : 409-413, 486-491. Levy.
Die Grundlagen des franzosischen Protectorates in Tunesien. (Verwaltun"
Justiz, Oeffenthcher Unterricht, Heerwesen.) Von Victor Levy With Illus
trations. '
Tunis—Bizerta. .Be». Maritime 144 (1900) : 473-508; 145 (1900) : 50-79. Castaing.
Bizerte : Les souvenirs du passe'. Par R. Castaing. With Maps.
This treatise traces the history of Bizerta from the Paleolithic period through the
historic ages down to the present time.
West Africa. Questions Dipl, et Colon. 10 (1900) : 412-423. Hostains and d’Ollone.
La Mission Hostains-d’Ollone. With Map.

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Content

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
English in Latin script
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