Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. 13, no. 3.

Date:
1869
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    MS. Arctic America: Discoveries of the Searching Expeditions under the command of Captain H. T. Austin, r.n., c.b., and Captain Penny. 1851. Geological Map of Europe, according to the re- searches of Sir Koderick I. Murchison, k.c.b., and J. Nicol, f.g.s. Constructed by A. K. Johnston. 1856. Map of Ireland, showing the heights by gradations of shade, to accompany the Report of the Land Tenure Commission. 1845. Four sheets of the Government Map of Bavaria, viz., Nos. 85, Traunstein; 92, Auerberg; 93, Reichenhall; 94, Berchtesgaden. The Eastern Alps, a MS., drawn by Mr. Gardner for Sir R. Murchison. Esquisse de l’Herzegovine et du Montenegro. By H. Br. de Beaumont. Corrected by A. Bone. 1861. Karte des noerdlichen Ural, on 2 sheets. By the Ural Ex- pedition. 1847-50. Map of Aderbeijan. By N. Ivhanikoff. 1862. Map of Turkestan, in Russian characters. 1867. Map of Khiva and the surrounding country. By J. Arrowsmith. 1841. A Russian map of Khiva, showing the theatre of war (in Russian characters). By C. Zimmermann. 1840. A map of the republic of New Granada, dedicated to Baron de Humboldt by Col. Joaquin Acosta. 1847. Victoria, western portion; showing the various trial lines sur- veyed for projected railways from Port Phillip to the Murray River. 4 sheets. 1855. By G. C. Darbyshire,'c.e. Comparative Size of the Scales of the Government Surveys of European Countries, shown by squares. Five outline maps relating to the engraving and shading of hills, by the triotinto and medallion process. Island of Teneriffe. By L. de Buch. 1814. A map of the South-Eastern Alps (Austria). By Julius Payer. Presented by A. Petermann. A Map of Tibet, showing the Gold-fields and Sources of the Indus. By a Pundit. Presented by A. Petermann. French charts, 70 sheets, and 16 books of pilotage. 1 lie I resident observed that the paper about to be read that evening was by Professor A. E. Nordenskiold, a distinguished man of science who had accompanied all these memorable expeditions to Spitzbergen, and by Pr. W. von Otter, of the Swedish navy. The Swedes, though not a rich nation, were undertaking for the third time an expedition into these arctic regions. It was a great honour to the Swedish nation that they had accom- plished so much in exploring the physical geography of Spitzbergen and of the neighbouring seas. The Papers of the evening were the following: 1. Account of the Swedish North-Polar Expedition of 1868, under the command of A. E. Nordenskiold and Fr. W. von Otter. (Extracts.) The study of the natural history of the polar regions has been of late years prosecuted in Sweden with so much interest that, exclu-