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WE have received from the Russian State Geo-graphical Society twelve parts of its Izvestiya, iorming vols. 52-57, for the years 1916–1925. They contain a series of valuable contributions to the geography of the Russian dominions, and British geographers will gladly welcome the renewed activity of that important Society. The word ‘Imperial’ in the title of the Society was omitted in 1916 and has now been replaced by ‘State.’ That the conditions of publication in Russia are difficult are indicated by the poverty of the paper, the sparseness and inferior quality of the illustrations and the maps. In these respects the later volumes show a marked improvement, which encourages the hope that the journal will reach its former excellence. The volumes contain many important contributions, but they are rigidly confined to the Russian language, the only exception being that one paper has a title and a short summary in French. If the titles of the papers and the lists of contents were repeated in some western language, the accessibility of its contributions would be much increased. Some of the work has been delayed in publication; thus volume 57, pt. i (pp. 3-60), includes papers by Conradi, Kell, and Ghulten on the geological and geographical results of an expedition to Kamchatka in 1908–1910, and a discussion by Prof. Karakash of Eocmthropus dawsoni (vol. 52, 1916, pp. 673-714) has been generally overlooked in Great Britain.
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The Russian Geographical Society. Nature 118, 859 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118859a0
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