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THE work of the Geographical Section was overtaken in four meetings, the large attendance at which was evidence that the papers read met at least with popular approval. It is more satisfactory to gather from the opinions expressed by specialists that many of the papers were solid and original, and that from the scientific standpoint the average work was of high excellence. Without doubt the most important of the new results announced to the Section was Dr. Schlichter's admirable development of a photographic process for determining longitude by the almost disused method of lunar distances. The practical value of the invention is very great, especially with regard to the mapping of partially known continents.
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Geography at the British Association. Nature 46, 406–408 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046406a0
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