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THE preparations for the International Geographical Congress, to be held in September next at Venice, together with a Geographical Exhibition, are advancing rapidly. The Bolletino of the Italian Geographical Society announces in its last number that the saloons for the Exhibition are already distributed among the exhibitors, and that the nations which will occupy the most space will be Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Hungary, Russia, and Switzerland. The saloons allowed for the Exhibition in the royal palace being insufficient, it was agreed immediately to proceed to the construction of provisional buildings. The Italian railway companies have granted a reduction of 30 per cent, on the prices of tickets, and of 50 per cent, on goods for members of the Congress. The Austrian Lloyd and the Navigation Company, “Rubattino e Florio,” grant a reduction of 50 per cent, on passengers' fares. As to the questions to be discussed at the Congress, the Commission has already published in the Bolletino its reports on most of them. Among the questions are:—On the Present State of Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude, by G. Lorenzoni.—On the Determination of the Temperature of Sea-water at Different Depths; on the Measurement of Depths; on the State of the Surveys of Coasts, &c, by G. B. Magnaghi; on the Extinction of Aboriginal Races, by L. Hugues; and on the Teaching of Geography in Schools, by L. Schiaparelli. We do not hear of any great activity in the collection of British exhibits for the annexed exhibition of geographical apparatus, &c. In England, indeed, no great interest is felt in these congresses. In Russia, on the contrary, a collection of apparatus has for some time been in preparation. M. Grigorieff is to represent the Russian Government and the Imperial Geographical Society at Venice.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 24, 295–296 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024295a0
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