Ritter's “Asia,” Russian Addenda

Abstract

THIS volume belongs to the great undertaking of the Russian Geographical Society, which was begun many years ago with the intention of publishing addenda to those parts of Ritter's “Asia” which deal with regions of the great continent belonging to Russia, or touching its frontiers. The large number of geographical researches which have been made since the year 1832, when Ritter's great work had been published, and the difficulty of treating them with the same details as Ritter had treated the scanty information available sixty years ago, have resulted in many delays in the appearance of the promised volumes, and even this last one comes out as the work of three different persons—P. P. Semenoff taking it up when Chersky had met with an untimely death in the far north of Siberia. But in the hands of P. P. Semenoff, the volume we now have before us bears no traces of an incomplete posthumous publication. On the contrary, it is a well-finished work, worthy to take one of the first places among the several excellent volumes of “Russian Addenda” previously published.

East Siberia.

Part i., being the Sayan Highlands in the Government of Irkutsk, in the South of the great Siberian Highway, up to the South-western Extremity of Lake Baikal. By P. P. Semenoff, I. D. Chersky, and G. G. von Fetz. (St. Petersburg, 1894.)