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THE Pamir is the subject of another contribution, by M. Ivanoff, to the last issue of the Izvestia of the Russian Geographical Society. Several objections having been made to his views on the Pamir, already mentioned in NATURE, and especially to his tendency of limiting the name of Pamir to the eastern part of the great Central Asian mountain mass. M. Ivanoff answers by a paper accompanied by a map of the Pamir, on which the whole of the region is represented; the chains of mountains being drawn, however, merely schematically, which circumstance is a great obstacle to catching on the map their real characters. He insists on the fact that the denominations “Great” and “Little Pamir,” introduced by Messrs. Gordon and Trotter, are not known to those natives who are best, acquainted with the region, and they lay altogether too much stress upon the names in use among Kirghizes. He thus limits the discussion as to what must be considered as the Pamir, which discussion had been so very well put by his former orographical papers on its proper ground—that of physicargeography—where it obviously must remain. We notice in the same issue a paper by M. Wolter on the Prussian Lithuanians; and a preliminary report, by M. Sorokin, on his journey in Russian Tian-Shan.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 32, 113–114 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032113b0
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