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General of India and at the Cape, gave results which could only be 

 achieved after immense labour on the part of their respective depart- 

 ments. They made one regret that so many obstacles may stand in 

 the way of seeing an unbroken line of triangulation stretch from the 

 Cape of Good Hope northwards to the Nile Valley, and thence 

 through Greece to the North Cape ; and another from Ceylon, across 

 India and Russia, to the same point. 



Many papers of interest were presented to the sections at other 

 meetings ; but, for want of space, we must omit even the titles of 

 most of them. One meeting considered the Morphology of the Earth, 

 in which Professor Penck opened the proceedings with a paper on the 

 Morphology and Terminology of Land Forms. We may hope soon 

 to see a translation of his great book, which will give this subject its 

 proper position in this country. In the Section on Oceanography a 

 feeling of satisfaction, mingled with regret that the work of the 

 " Challenger " Expedition Commission had come to an end, was 

 distinctly observed ; but there was evidence of plenty of work going 

 on in building on that great foundation. The Prince of Monaco sent 

 an account of recent work on board the " Princess Alice," and 

 Professor Pettersson, of Stockholm, propounded a scheme for further 

 work in the North Sea — with the British share in this readers of 

 Natural Science are already familiar — a scheme which afterwards 

 received the unanimous approval of the Congress. Some progress 

 was made towards a reformed system of geographical spelling, of 

 which even the outsider, who finds that Venezia, Venise, Venice, and 

 Venedig are all the same place, may well appreciate the need, even 

 when he is not concerned with place-names in Central Africa. 



There seems little doubt that the International Geographical 

 Congress, as a body, has found its work, and we may confidently 

 expect that when it meets in Berlin in 1899 it will have great 

 achievements to show, especially as it has decided that its present 

 officers are to retain their posts during the interval. 



H. N. Dickson. 



