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AT the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday evening it was announced that the gold medals had that day been awarded to Col. Nicholas Prejevalsky for the great additions he has made to our knowledge of Central and Eastern High Asia by his successive expeditions into the unexplored parts of the great plateau of Mongolia and the lofty deserts of Western Thibet, and for the admirable way in which he has described the regions traversed by him in the published narratives of his journeys; and to Capt. W. J. Gill, R.E., for excellent geographical work performed during two journeys of exploration, voluntarily undertaken, along the northern frontier of Persia in 1873, and over previously untravelled ground in China and Thibet, in 1877; also for the elaborate memoir and route maps contributed to the forthcoming volume of the Society's Journal. A paper was afterwards read by the Rev. James McCarthy, of the China Inland Mission, descriptive of the journey which ne made, mostly on foot, in 1877, across China, from Chinkiang, on the Yangtsze-Kiang, to Bhamò, in Burmah. The leading features of this journey have been fully described in NATURE. The most noteworthy incident of the evening was a speech, delivered in his native language by the Marquis Tsêng, Chinese Minister to England and France, expressive of the pleasure which he felt at Mr. McCarthy's acknowledgment of the uniformly courteous treatment he experienced during his long journey.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 20, 15–16 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020015a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020015a0