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THE various geographical journals to hand contain several papers of importance. In the January Bulletin of the Paris Society M. Maunier gives a full and intelligent sketch of geographical work during 1878, while Dr. Harmand gives a brief statement of the results of his recent journeys in Anam. The Paris Society seems to have followed the example set by the London Society, and has introduced a new feature, “Nouvelles,” containing notes of geographical work beyond the limits of its own papers. The Zeitschrift of the Berlin Society contains two instructive papers, on the Andamans, by Ad. de Roepstarff, and an account of a journey in southwest Persia, by Dr. A. H. Schindler. In the two numbers of the Verhandlungen of the same society, the last for 1878 and first for 1879, the papers of most interest are those on the Mining Industry of Russia, by C. Skalkovsky; on the latest researches on the Aurora Borealis, by Herr Förster; and on the people of East Africa, by Herr Hartmann. In the Mittheilungen of the Vienna Society, No. 2 of this year, Herr Franz Heger gives some hints as to a solution of various geological questions,—glaciation, climate, coal-deposits, &c.—apparently seeking to account for many of the great geological problems by a change in the earth's axis. The March number of Petermann's Mittheilungen contains several papers of interest. From the journal of a Bremen merchant a narrative is given of a journey up the Jenissei, from its mouth to Jenisseisk, in the summer of 1878; and M. N. Latkin gives a detailed account of our knowledge of the Lena and its basin. Exact news of Nordenskjöld's position is given from the San Francisco whaling captain, who was the first to hear of him, and a statement as to the course to be followed by the steamer Nordenskjöld, now building at Malmö, and which will start in May, first to succour the Swedish expedition, and then to proceed to the mouth of the Lena. If it cannot return through Behring's Strait, the staff will spend the winter in collecting all possible data in various departments of science. Nos. 3 and 4 of the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society contain, the former a paper by Rear-Admiral Ammer, on the Inter-oceanic ship canal across the American Isthmus, and the latter an interesting sketch of the life and work of Mercator, by Mr. E. F. Hall.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 19, 470–471 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019470a0
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