ON THE SURVEY OF PALESTINE. 691 
Report of the Committee, consisting of the Rey. Canon TRIsTRaAM, 
the Rev. F. Lawrence, and Mr. James GLalsHER (Secretary), 
appointed for the purpose of promoting the Survey of Palestine. 
_ Tue Survey of Eastern Palestine has been carried on during the last 
year privately by Herr G. Schumacher, C.E., assisted by Mr. Laurence 
Oliphant, who has also furnished the Committee with valuable notes of 
personal exploration in the district now called Junlan—the ancient 
Gaulanitis. The portion surveyed by Herr Schumacher consists of about 
200 square miles, and covers an area previously quite unknown. The 
map, which is now in the hands of the Committee, is accompanied by 
Yoluminous memoirs and a great number of sketches, drawings, and 
plans of ruins figured for the first time. These drawings are now in the 
hands of the engravers, and it is proposed to publish them, with the 
memoirs, in October. The map will be laid down on the sheet to which 
it belongs. It is hoped that Herr Schumacher may be able to continue 
working in this way for the Society, so that, though it may be found 
impossible to send, as before, a large and well equipped party of Royal 
_ Engineers to survey the country, we may yet be continuously working, 
always extending our map, and acquiring new knowledge of this little- 
visited district. As regards other portions of the Holy Land, the map 
of the Wady Arabah has been laid down in the Society’s sheets; the 
geological memoirs compiled by Professor Hull after his expedition of 
1883-1884 are nearly ready, and will be issued before the end of the year; 
_ and the Society has been enabled to secure Mr. Chichester Hart’s Natural 
History memoir, made from new observations during the same journey. 
In addition to Mr. Laurence Oliphant’s paper, the Committee have 
received from Mr. Guy le Strange, and published, observations and notes 
made by him during a recent journey east of Jordan. The results of the 
_ Survey, so far as it has been completed, will appear in a map reduced to 
a scale of about three miles to an inch, showing the country on both sides 
of the river Jordan, instead of on the western side only. The Old and 
New Testament names, with tribe boundaries and later divisions, have 
also been prepared for this map, and will be printed upon it in colour. 
A list of ancient names with modern identifications has been prepared, and 
will be issued with it. This portion of the work is under the direction 
of Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. The Society has also 
issued during the last year a popular account, by Professor Hull, of his 
recent journey, called ‘Mount Seir,’ and reprints of Captain Conder’s 
popular books ‘ Tent Work in Palestine,’ and ‘Heth and Moab.’ Finally, 
the Committee have completed the issue of their great work, the ‘ Survey 
of Western Palestine,’ with the last volumes of ‘ Jerusalem,’ the ‘ Flora 
and oo and a portfolio of plates showing the excavations and their 
‘Tesults, 
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