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GEOGRAPHICAL PKOGEESS AND DISCOVERY IN 1876. 



Franzos, K. E. : Aus Halb-Asien ; Culturbilder 

 aus Galizien, der Bokowina, Siid-Russland und 

 Rumilnien. (Leipsic, Duncker & Humblot, 1876.) 



Gill, Rev. William Wyatt : Life in the Southern 

 Isles: or, Scenes and Incidents in the South Pacific 

 und New Guinea. (London, Religious Tract Society, 

 1876.) 



Journal of Commodore Goodenough, R. N. Ed- 

 ited, with a Memoir, by his Widow. (London, Hen- 

 ry S. King & Co., 1876.; 



Gordon, Lieutenant - Colonel T. E., lately at- 

 tached to the Special Mission to Kashgar : The Roof 

 of the World; being a Narrative of a Journey over 

 the High Plateau of Thibet to the Russian Frontier 

 and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. (Edinburgh, Ed- 

 monston & Douglas, 1876.) 



Leared, Arthur, M. D. : Morocco and the Moors ; 

 being an Account of Travels, with a General De- 

 scription of the Country and its People. (London, 

 Low, 1876.) 



Long, Colonel C. Chaille : Naked Truths of Naked 

 People : an Account of Expeditions to the Lake Vic- 

 toria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west 

 of Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile). (London, Low, 

 1876.) 



Grant-Duff, M. E. : Notes of an Indian Journey. 

 (London, Macmillan, 1876.) 



Grove, F. C. : The Frosty Caucasus. (London, 

 Longmans, 1875.) 



MacGahan, J. A. : Under the Northern Lights. 

 (London, Low, 1876.) 



Margary, Augustus Raymond, the Journey of, from 

 Shanghai to Bhamo and back to Manvvyne. Editor, 

 Sir Rutherford Alcock. (London, Macmillan, 1876.) 



Meinicke, Prof. Dr. Carl : Die Inseln des Stillen 

 Oceans. 



(Michell, Thomas:) Handbook for Travelers in 

 Russia, Poland, and Finland ; including the Crimea, 

 Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia. Third edition, 

 revised. (London, Murray, 1876.) 



Mohr, E. : To the Victorian Falls of the Zambesi. 

 Translated by W. D'Anvers. (London, Low, 1876.) 



Montiero, 'Joachim John : Angola and the River 

 Congo. (London, Macmillan, 1876.; 



Narratives of the Mission of George Boyle to Tibet, 

 and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. 

 Edited by Clements R. Markham. (London, Triib- 

 ner, 1876.) 



Orton, Prof. James : The Andes and the Amazon. 

 (New York. Harpers, 1876.) This is a revised edition 

 of the work published before under the same title, 

 containing an account, before unpublished, of a sec- 

 ond journey made in 1873. 



Palgrave, W. G. : Dutch Guiana. (London, Mac- 

 millan, 1876.) 



Prejevalsky, Lieutenant-Colonel N., of the Russian 

 Staff 'Corps : Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and 

 the Solitudes of Northern Thibet : a Narrative of 

 Three Years' Travel in Eastern High Asia. Trans- 

 lated from the Russian by E. Delmar Morgan, and 

 annotated by Colonel Yale. (London, Low, 1876.) 



Recent Polar Voyages. (London, Nelson, 1876.) 



Schuyler, Eugene : Turkistan : Notes of a Journey 

 in Russian Turkistan, Khokaud, Bukhara, and 

 Kuldja. (London, Low, 1876.) 



Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery. (Lon- 

 don, Low, 1876.) 



(Socin, Prof. Dr. Albrecht :) Palastina und Syria : 

 Handbuch fiir Reisende. (Leipsic, Baedeker, 1876.) 

 Published also in English. 



Soleillet, Paul : Avenir de la Franco en Afrique. 

 (Paris, 1876.) 



South Australia : its History, Resources, and Pro- 

 ductions. Edited by Wm. Harcus. (London, Low, 

 1876.1 



Telfer, Commander J. Buchan, R. N. : The Crimea 

 and Transcaucasia ; being the Narrative of a Jour- 

 ney in the Kouban, in Gouria, Armenia, Georgia, 

 Ossety, Imeritia, Swannety, and Mingrelia, and in 

 t'.ie Tauric Range. (London, Henry S. King, 1876.) 



The Dutch in the Arctic Seas. By Samuel Richard 

 Van Campen. (London, Triibuer, 1876.) 



The Queen of the Colonies ; or, Queensland as I 

 knew it. (London, Low, 1876.) 



Thielmann, Baron Max von : Journey in the Cau- 

 casus, Persia, and Turkey. Translated by Charles 

 Heneage. (London, Murray, 1876.) 



Thomson, Gastou: L'Herze'govine. (Paris, 1876.) 



Wood, Major Herbert: The Shores of the Aral. 

 (London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1876.) 



CARTOGRAPHY. The new edition of Stie- 

 ler's "Hand- Atlas," commenced in 1871, was 

 completed with the appearance of the thirtieth 

 part in November, 1875. This work is the 

 product of the united labors of the best car- 

 tographers of Germany, and is published by the 

 famous establishment at Goth a. The engrav- 

 ing is as fine as it could be, and an effect show- 

 ing the contour of the territory, which has 

 never before been attempted in the same de- 

 gree of minuteness, is admirably produced. 

 Each geographer has worked in his own espe- 

 cial field Berghaus, for instance, contributing 

 the charts of physical geography, Petermann 

 delineating the results of the latest explora- 

 tions, in which department he has no rival for 

 judgment and information, Vogel reducing the 

 largest and fullest maps, such as the great Gov- 

 ernment maps of France, Spain, and Switzer- 

 land, with marvelous accuracy and detail. The 

 "Hand-Atlas" embodies the results of all the 

 late surveys in all parts of the world the 

 American survey of the Territories and the 

 British survey of India, for example, and also 

 trustworthy travelers' charts and notes in 

 South Australia, Central Africa, or any of the 

 newly-visited regions. 



HYDROGRAPHY. The Norwegian hydro- 

 graphical expedition, under Captain Wille, 

 spent several months this year in interesting 

 explorations south of Iceland and about the 

 coasts of Norway, although they were much 

 disturbed in the study of deep-sea phenomena 

 by the incessant storms. The vessel in which 

 the expedition sailed was the steamer Vorin- 

 gen, of 400 tons' burden. The expedition was 

 equipped for a three years' crnise, and pro- 

 vided with all the apparatus used in the most 

 thorough deep-sea investigations.. The scien- 

 tific staff consisted of Prof. Sars, Dr. Daniel- 

 sen, and M. Fride, for biology ; M. Svendsen, 

 for chemistry ; and Prof. Mohn, for physics, 

 sea-temperature, meteorology, and magnetism. 

 The region of the ocean to be explored is that 

 lying between Norway, the Shetland and Faroe 

 Islands, Iceland, East Greenland, Jan Mayen, 

 and Spitzbergen. A careful study of the sur- 

 face-currents, obstructions, and best routes of 

 navigation, is a part of their task. The expe- 

 dition started from Bergen June 1st, and com- 

 menced sounding and dredging in the Sogne- 

 fiord. The depth was 600 fathoms, with a 

 bottom - temperature of 47.7 Fahr. The 

 fauna was a mixture of Atlantic and arctic 

 forms, and many interesting specimens were 

 raised. After taking magnetical observations 

 of the island of Huso, they sailed along the 



