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of this journey, with a description of the people and country- 

 visited, will be published in the Journal of the Geographical 

 Society for 1878. 



A valuable contribution to Chinese geography is also made 

 by the report of Mr. Baber " On the Route followed by Mr. 

 Grosvenor's Mission between Tali-fa and Moraein." The 

 journey was made in 1876, but the report, with the accom- 

 panying maps, has just been published. 



Throughout the section from Yunnan-fu to Momein,very 

 numerous astronomical and hypsometrical measurements 

 have enabled Mr. Baber to construct a most valuable map. 

 For a distance of nearly 400 miles the road followed was 

 rarely less than 5000 feet above the level of the sea, and 

 sometimes nearly 9000. The text of the report is most in- 

 teresting, giving very graphic descriptions of both scenery 

 and people. 



The labors of the Dutch expedition for the exploration of 

 Sumatra have been continued, notwithstanding the death of 

 M. Santvoort, the leader, who was succeeded by Lieutenant 

 Cornelissen of the Dutch Navy. 



Several reports and maps have been received and pub- 

 lished; and surveys have been made for a railway to connect 

 the coal-fields of the Ombili River with the coast. Some 

 members of the expedition ascended the Indrapoor, or vol- 

 canic peak of Korintje, the highest mountain in Sumatra, a 

 feat never before performed. The edge of the crater was 

 found by barometric measurement to be 12,000 feet above 

 the sea. Traces of elephants are said to have been found at 

 a height of 5000 feet, and of the rhinoceros at nearly 8500 

 feet above the sea. Recent advices indicate that, owing to 

 the opposition of some of the native chiefs, further explora- 

 tion will be for the present abandoned. 



Very interesting information about Sumatra is to be found 

 in a work by Mr. C. B. H. von Rosenberg, entitled "The Ma- 

 lay Archipelago," published in Leipsic during the last year, 

 the data for which were collected by the author during thir- 

 ty years' residence in the Dutch colonies. 



In Petermann's Mittheilungen (1878, No. 2) is given an ex- 

 cellent map of the island of Nias, lying oft* the west coast 

 of Sumatra, with a description by Dr. A. Schreiber. The 

 island belongs to Holland, is about 70 miles long N.W. and 



