200 EARL DE GREY'S ADDRESS—EUROPE. [May 28, 1860. 



Nor should I omit the geographical and statistical descriptions 

 of Eussia recently published in the new edition of the ' Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica.' I have the greater pleasure in drawing your attention 

 to this article, since it is the production of our countryman — Pro- 

 fessor Bishop of St. Petersburg. 



Sweden and Norway. — The Expedition to the Polar Seas, proposed 

 by the Swedish Government, has already been mentioned, but we 

 have had to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the useful 

 maps and charts of Sweden and Norway, which continue to be 

 regularly sent to us from those countries. Among the latest of 

 these may be noticed the map of the province of Gothaborg in 

 two sheets, scale about three miles to an inch, and executed in the 

 same clear style as the previously published maps of the provinces 

 of Carlskrona, Skaraborg, &c. 



Denmark. — Captain Rhode, the Hydrographer of Denmark, has 

 published an excellent chart of the north part of the Cattegat, of 

 which the southern part will also soon appear. 



The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Denmark, under 

 the able guidance of its Secretary, our learned Associate, Professor 

 C. C. Rafn, continues the publications of its useful historical 

 Annals and Memoirs. 



From our Corresponding member. Captain C. Irminger, of the 

 Royal Danish Navy, we learn with pleasure that Carl Petersen, the 

 steady and trustworthy companion of Penny, Kane, Hayes, and 

 MoClintock, who had last year received from his Sovereign, the 

 King of Denmark, the silver cross of Dannebrog, for his services in 

 Greenland and the Arctic Regions, has since been gratified by the 

 appointment of Inspector to the Light-house on the Island of 

 *'Iljelm" in the Cattegat, about 3 miles from the east coast of 

 Jutland. 



Germany. — A map of Frankfort, in 16 sheets, is engraved on the 

 scale of i-^'5-o- or about 4 feet to the mile, by A. Ravenstein, and 

 deservedly ranks with any of the continental-city monographs. 



Four elaborately tinted maps of the late Major A. Papon's Atlas 

 of Central Europe, by A. Ravenstein, have been added to the five 

 previously published, and the remaining three may be shortly 

 expected. 



Prussia. — Of the topographical map of Prussia, 10 sheets have 

 been published this year, including portions of Thuringia. The 

 Prussian Admiralt}^ have published a chart of th§ estuaries of the 

 Jade, Wcser, and Elbe, in 6 sheets. 



