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a paper by Mr E. G. Ravenstein, on The Kongo an. I ili»' Cape 

 of Good Hope, 1482 to 1488, a narrative of one of the most in- 

 teresting periods in the history of geographic exploration, and 

 a communication by Prof. John Milne, of the Isle of Wight, on 

 Certain Submarine Geological Changes, which was mainly an 

 epitome of the article on Suboceanic Changes, published in" the 

 July and August numbers of the Geographical Journal. 



On August 23 Mr Marcus Baker, of the U.S. ( Jeological Survey, 

 read a paper, the joint production of himself and Mr Gardiner 

 G. Hubbard, President of the National Geographic Society, on 

 the Geography of the United States and the Agencies employed 

 in its Exploitation ; General A. W. Greely presented a paper by 

 Prof. F. H. Newell, Chief Hydrographer of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, on the Hydrography of the United States ; I)r T. C. Mcn- 

 denhall. President of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and 

 formerly Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 and Mr Otto H. Tittmann, Assistant in charge of the Oflice of the 

 Survey, discussed the geographic work of that important gov- 

 ernment bureau; Mr J. B. Tyrrell, of Ottawa, read a paper on 

 the Barren Lands of Canada, by which title he designated the 

 plains and prairies which stretch from Hudson bay to the Mac- 

 kenzie river and from the coastline of the Arctic ocean south- 

 ward to the region of civilization ; Mr W. J. White read a paper 

 on the Topographic Work of the Geological Survey of Canada ; 

 Prof. Charles D. Walcott, Director of the Geological Survey of 

 the United States, presented a valuable communication on the 

 geographical work of the institution over which he so al)ly pre- 

 sides, and Prof. Willis L. Moore, Chief of the U. S. Weatlu-r 

 Bureau, discussed entertainingly and instructively the Clima- 

 tology of the United States. 



The proceedings of August 24 opened with an address by 

 Mr F. C. Selous on the Economic Geography of Rhodesia, a re- 

 gion in which he has spent twenty-five years in elephant and 

 lion hunting, but in which the ultimate destiny of a large part 

 of the African continent is now being wrought out. Tiiis was 

 followed by a Journey in Tripoli, by Mr J. T. Myers ; Potamol- 

 ogy as a Branch of Geography, by Prof. Albrecht Penck. of the 

 University of Vienna ; the Geographical Develo|>ment of the 

 Lower Mississippi, by Dr E. L. Corthell, of New York ; South- 

 eastern Alaska, by Mr Otto J. Klotz, of Ottawa ; The First Ascent 

 of Mt. Lefroy and Mt. Aberdeen, by Prof. II. B. Dixon, of Man- 

 chester; Mexico Felix and Mexico Deserta, by MrO. II. llowarth. 



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