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WE have already referred to an official publication of the French Colonial Government in Saigon, entitled Excutsions et Recounaissances, which appears every two months, and is wholly devoted to recording the investigations made by French officials in French Cochin China and the neighbouring semi- independent and independent States. The course and results of the numerous scientific missions despatched to these regions by the Ministers of Education and the Colonies, as well as the travels and researches of private individuals, are published in this periodical; and as there are six numbers published annually, of about 200 large octavo pages each, it will readily be perceived, apart altogether from the dearth of information, other than political, with regard to the great Indo-Chinese peninsula, that these volumes form a mine of knowledge of the most authentic and trustworthy description, for the writers are for the most part men who have been specially selected in France to study the subjects with which they deal. Unfortunately, however, the publication is but little known in this country, no copy being obtainable in some of our largest official libraries. As it is on sale in Saigon, and doubtless also in Paris, there is no reason why a periodical so valuable should not be made accessible to English students.
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Science in French Cochin China . Nature 33, 67–68 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033067a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033067a0