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ON Friday, April 1, the French Geographical Society held a meeting in the large hall of the Sorbonne for the reception of Dr. Lenz on his return from Timbuctoo. M. Milne-Edwards was in the chair. Dr. Lenz, as our readers know, has been very successful, although his conclusions are adverse to the construction of a railway from the Niger to Algeria throughout the Sahara. On the following morning the Society received a telegram stating that Col. Flatters had been murdered by Totiaregs at some distance from the Lebhkha Amagdor. In the evening the sad news was confirmed by an official message, stating that four starving Arabs from the mission had arrived at Ouargla, and that the Khobfa had left with four hundred mehari and camel horsemen to rescue the survivors, who were besieged south of Messaguer in the Touat region proper. Happily the new s of the disaster to Col. Flatters' expedition has not yet been further confirmed, and authorities in Paris are inclined to believe that it has been much exaggerated, and that the story of the four natives has many elements of suspicion about it.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 23, 544 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023544a0
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