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forward, and seems likely to be carried out. Lieutenant 

 Weyprecht, who commanded the Austrian expedition that 

 discovered Franz- Josef Land in 1874, and Count Wilczek, 

 one of the promoters of that expedition, have announced 

 that they intend to undertake an arctic expedition to estab- 

 lish a station of observation in Northern Nova Zembla, and 

 they strongly urge the establishment of others at various 

 points both in the northern and southern hemispheres. 



GREENLAND. 



No more valuable contribution to geographical literature 

 has appeared for a very long time than Dr. Rink's "Danish 

 Greenland." For sixteen winters and twenty-two summers 

 the author resided in the country, for a portion of the time 

 as its governor. Not only could no other living person 

 have written this book, but its accuracy and completeness 

 appear to be beyond criticism. 



EUROPE. 



The great demand of the year has been for maps and de- 

 scriptions of the seat of war a want partly supplied by the 

 reissue of old maps, and partly by the publication of numer- 

 ous new ones, as nearly accurate as could be expected of 

 countries not having the advantages of a systematic govern- 

 ment survey. 



Among the best of new issues is a map of European Tur- 

 key, in seventeen sheets, on a scale of 4-2oVoo"> by Colonel 

 Artamanow, of the Russian service. 



The steadily increasing interest in exact geographical 

 knowledge is attested by the increasing membership of the 

 older geographical societies, and the establishment of new 

 ones at Copenhagen, Antwerp, Brussels, Marseilles, and 

 Bremen. 



In Germany the Imperial Railroad Commission has pub- 

 lished a chart of the most extensive net-work of railroads in 

 the world ; and a complete physico-statistical atlas of Ger- 

 many has been edited by Messrs. R. Andre and O. Peschel. 



A complete catalogue of dwelling-places in the kingdom 

 of Bavaria, and a new topographical map of Baden, deserve 

 mention. 



The project of draining the southern part of the Zuyder- 



