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The operations in connection with the military expeditious in Upper 

 Burma and the Eastern Frontier are important as paving the way for 

 further explorations into the unknown country lying towards south- 

 eastern Tibet and containing the upper waters of the great rivers of 

 Burma, Siam and China from the Brahmaputra to the Yang-tse Kiang. 



In Central Asia, Turkestan, the Pamirs and Western Tibet, foreign 

 explorers have been particularly active, and a great deal of valuable 

 geographical information has been acquired, though nothing very spe- 

 cially important has as yet been published. 



I have already referred to the loss that Indian geography has 

 suffered by the death of Sir Henry Yule, and it is indeed a serious one. 

 Though apparently not taking any very prominent part in working out 

 the great problems of Asiatic geography, his vast range of knowledge 

 and his peculiar power of geographical intuition enabled him to advise 

 and suggest ways of attacking them for others to carry out, and this he 

 was always ready to do.* 



It is a great pleasure to me to note that the Gill medal of the Royal 

 Geographical Society has been awarded to Mr. M. J. Ogle, of the Survey 

 of India Department, for his excellent survey work in Eastern Assam, 

 in Manipur, and in Northern and Western Burma, partly with Colonel 

 Woodthorpe, C. B., and partly independently. 



Geographical Exploration and Surveys. — Lushai Kills. A small 

 Survey party accompanied the expedition to the Lushai Hills which 

 took place in the cold season of 1888-89. The area of new country 

 mapped on the j-inch scale amounted to 540 square miles, besides 

 about 210 square miles roughly reconnoitred from long distances. The 

 line of march taken by the troops from Demagiri to Lungleh was 

 laid down by plane-table traverse and measured 43 miles. The work 

 done, though not great in quantity, yields a fair amount of new know- 

 ledge of the country. The principal fact ascertained is that there is 

 no large stream or main feeder to the Kaladan River between the 

 Blue Mountain (Mai Selai Mon) and Darjow Klang, as shewn in the 

 old map of the country. The principal stream flows much further 

 north, between Aitur Klang and Maliam Pui Klang. The Matt river 

 joins the Kaladan further south than is shown in the old map. The 

 sites of several new villages have been laid down and the positions 

 of others corrected. Survey parties are also accompanying the columns 

 of the Chin-Lushai Expeditionai-y Forces now operating in these hills, 



* I may mention ttat very complete and appreciative accounts of Sir Henry 

 Yule's geographical work have appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographi- 

 cal Society and of the French Society de Geoyraphie. 



