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IN the place of Prof. Geikie's lecture on geographical evolution which was promised for this month, the June number of the Geographical Society's monthly periodical contains the anniversary address by Mr. Markham on the progress of geography. This is followed by a short paper on the “Mardian Hills and the Lower Indravati in the Bustar Dependency,” contributed by Capt. T. H. Holdich, R.E., who also furnishes a sketch-map of the region. As regards quantity, at any rate, the geographical notes show a great improvement on previous numbers, and many of them supply information of considerable interest. Attention may be especially called to Mr. Keith Johnston's remarks on the employment of elephants in African travel, and regarding his own movements, Russian topographical labours in the Kirghiz Steppe and in Turkistan, the Russian Trans-Caspian territory, recent topographical survey by the Russians from the Oxus to Herat, new maps of Afghanistan, and a singular cave-formation in Queensland. There is also a good summary of Lieut. Wheeler's survey work in Oregon in 1878, based on an account drawn up by Mr. T. W. Goad, who was himself an active partaker in the work. Under the head of “Proceedings of Foreign Societies,” we find a report of the Inter-Oceanic Canal Congress up to May 23. The last thirteen pages of the number are occupied by notes on new books and maps.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 20, 130–131 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020130a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020130a0