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are representatives of the most modern developments of geography. 
Elisée Reclus must also be mentioned as the author of the most 
important treatise on general geography of modern date ; and 
only the impossibility of adding names to a paper already over- 
burdened with them, prevents me paying a well deserved tribute 
to a hundred others. 
In the preparation of this paper I have availed myself freely of 
Sir Clements Markham, Hugh Robert Mill, and W. M. Davis of 
America. In some places I have quoted their own words, and I 
desire to express my indebtedness for such valuable information. 
No. 2.—OVER LAND AND SEA; or ANDREE’S AERIAL 
VOYAGE TO THE NORTH POLE. 
By A. C. Macponanp, F.R.G.S8., FR. Mist. S.-i 
(Read Monday, January 10, 1898.) 
No. 3.—REMARKS ON CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 
SUGGESTING FURTHER EXPLORATION. 
By W. H. TIerKkens. 
(Read Wednesday, January 12, 1898.) 
NorwitustanpinG the labours of the past, the last volume of 
Australian discovery is still incomplete. When written it will 
be found replete with accounts of intrepid deeds of daring and 
contempt of danger, and future generations will become acquainted 
with the difficulties and privations which their pioneer ancestors 
faced in their endeavours to solve the mysteries of the unknown 
interior. 
The chapter so recently closed is full of tragic interest ; hoy 
nobly those brave men (Charles F. Wells and George L. Jones) 
met their death on the burning sands is an occurrence still fresh 
in the minds of us all, and affords a fitting opportunity for this 
association to offer a tribute to the memory of those devoted men 
who fell in the Calvert Expedition of 1896. 
The early explorers of the eastern parts of Australia have had 
their labours rewarded by knowing that the waggons and flocks 
of the pastoralist followed in their footsteps. Those who were 
the first to travel west of the overland telegraph line have been 
