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Samuel Baker’s book on the ‘ Nile Tributaries,’ which was not in- 
tended to contribute much that could be useful for the present 
expedition, a fair account has been given by Mr. Dufton, an observy- 
ant traveller, and a collection has been put together by Mr. Hotten. 
The expedition will be accompanied by Dr. Krapf, the missionary, 
as interpreter, a gentleman well acquainted with both the Amharic 
and Tigree languages; by Mr. W. Blanford, as geologist; by Dr. 
Doitch, of the British Museum, as antiquarian and archeologist ; 
and it was said, but it has been since contradicted, by Mr. Clemerts 
Markham, as geographer. By making these appointments, the 
Government have entitled themselves to the thanks of scientific 
men. It remains to be seen whether a more popular Parliament 
will support this step in the right direction. 
The volcanic disturbances at Santorin have already excited con- 
siderable attention. Since our last Chronicle, Canea in Crete, Ice- 
land, and Vesuvius, have been visited by perturbations ; Candia, by 
an earthquake; Iceland and Vesuvius, by eruptions. In the former 
of these two the outbreak has been in a part of the island far from 
human habitation, and the extent of the outpouring is as yet un- 
known, and the site of the disturbance is probably almost macces- 
sible. In Vesuvius a new crater has been opened, and several 
streams of lava are issuing from this new mouth. 
As we stated at first, a good deal has been done in the way of 
studying the antiquities of geography. Colonel Henry Yule has 
published for the Hakluyt Society the accounts of many travellers 
of the middle ages in Central Asia, and has summed up in an in- 
troductory essay the information to be gained therefrom. His work 
is entitled ‘Cathay, and the Way thither.’ A book called ‘ Heroes 
of Discovery, by 8. Mossman, gives lives of Magellan, Cook, Park, 
Franklin, and Livingstone. These are interesting and inciting to 
young people to follow in the footsteps of the “ Heroes.” M. Léonce 
Angrand has been studying the monuments of Peru with a view to 
discovering the condition of civilization of the ancient inhabitants, 
and has lately published the result of his researches. Reimer, of 
Berlin, has issued a map of great philological and ethnological 
value, by Herr Kiepart, showing the nationalities of the various 
Austrian States. Messrs. Macmillan also have published an atlas, 
in the form of a book, a useful and portable work for reference. 
Guide books to Lough Corrib, by Sir W. Wilde, and a ‘ Murray’ 
for Yorkshire have also appeared. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE Royat GEOGRAPHICAL SocIETY. 
The President, Sir Roderick Murchison, in his annual address 
at the commencement of the session of 1867-68, confined his 
attention almost entirely to three points:—first, the fate of Dr. 
