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8. The City of the Tarquins. By Miss A. W. Buckland 609 



9. The Influence of the Intellectual Faculties in relation to the Direction and 

 Operation of the Material Organs. By George Harris, LL.D., F.S.A. 609 



Section E.— GEOGRAPHY. 

 THURSDAY, AUGUST 2i. 



1 The Arctic Campaign of 1882. — Its Origin, Constitution, and Otjects. By 

 Lieutenant G. T. Temple, E.N., F.R.G.S 611 



2. Notes on a visit to the Chukchi Peninsula in 1881, based on letters from 



Drs. Arthur and Aurel Krause. Communicated by the Bremen Geo- 

 graphical Society 612 



3. The question of an Overland Route to China from India via Assam, with 



some remarks on the Source of the Irrawaddi River. By Charles II. 

 Lepper, F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S 612 



4 Notes on the oldest Records of the Sea Route to China from Western Asia. 

 By Colonel H. Yule, C.B., R.E 61 



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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2^. 



Address by the President, Sir Richard Temple, Bart., D.C.L., G.C.S.I., 



F.R.G.S 613 



1. Some points of Physical Geographv observed during a recent tour round 

 South America. By JoHX Ball, M.A., F.R.S 622 



2 On the Geographical Evolution of the Tanganvika Basin. Bv Joseph 

 Thomsok, F.R:G.S ". .■ 622 



3. On the Royal Geographical Society's Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa. 



By E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S 623 



4. On Senegal, Gambia, and the Gold Coast. By Commander V. L. 



Cameron, R.N., C.B 623 



3I0KDAY. AUGUST 28. 



1. The Deserts of Africa and Asia. By P. de Tchihatchef 624 



2. OnMerv. By E. O'Doxoyax 624 



3 On the Identification of certain Ancient Diamond Mines in India. By 

 Professor Y. Ball, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S 625 



4 The Geography and Meteorologv of Kansas. By Litton Forbes, M.D., 

 F.R.G.S .' 625 



5. The Spanish Territories of North America. By E. von Hesse Wartegg 627 



6. The Dominion of Canada, especiallv with regard to the Geography of the 

 North- West Territory. By Cyril Graham, C.M.G., F.R.G.S. .." 628 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 29. 



1. Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of promoting the Sur- 

 vey of Eastern Palestine 628 



2. Vn some unexplored or little known parts of Persia. By Colonel Sir 

 Oliver St. John, R.E., K.C.S.I 628 



3. On the various means of communication between Central Persia and the 



Sea. By Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Bateman Champain, R.E., F.R.G.S 628 



4. On Tongkin and the new Approach to Yunnan. By D. Boxtlger 629 



