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The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2 [280r] (62/154)
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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PREFACE
HIS narrative has been written to supply a com-
plete authentic record of my Arctic work,—a
record which I owed it to my family, my friends, and
myself, to put in permanent form. It is my first and
only book, and it covers all my Arctic work.
It contains the cream of my Arctic material, liter
ary and pictorial. The reader will find no padding.
My constant aim has been condensation. The reader
will find neither resumes of previous work, nor con
stant reference to other explorers. This is not because
I do not appreciate their magnificent achievements,
and have not profited by the experience of Kane,
Hayes, Hall, Greeley, Melville, and the long list of
my gallant countrymen, as well as those of other 1
countries, my predecessors, but because I have no
room or right to rehash their experiences and results.
The interested reader can go to their original narra
tives, and there learn, in their own words, as much
or as little of their work as he pleases. As to con
stant comparisons with the work of others, the cursory
reader will not care for these. The specialist can
make them himself.
The constant incentive in my work has been an
ineradicable feeling that I saw something before me
1 Lest my omission of the name of Nansen should give rise to
erroneous impressions, it is to be borne in mind that though Nansen’s
books precede this narrative my work antedates his.
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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)
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 252-326
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2
- Pages
- 253r:325v
- 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
- Copyright
- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Reference
- Mss Eur F111/393, ff 252-326
- Title
- The Geographical Journal(Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XII, No. 2
- Pages
- 279r:280v
- Author
- Peary, Robert Edwin
- Copyright
- ©Royal Geographical Society
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- Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence