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several valuable works, sucli as those of Hermann Burmeister and Martin de 

 Moussy. A common direction is also given to individual studies by such estab- 

 lishments as the Buenos Ayres Institute, the La Plata ]\Iuseum, and the University 

 of Cordoba. 



Nevertheless, the Argentine Bepublic still lacks a good topographical map 

 analogous to those of West Europe, the United States, Mexico, and parts of 

 Brazil. In 1882 the Buenos Ayres Geographical Society resolved to prepare a 



Fig. 143. — Chief Routes of Exploeees in Patagonia. 

 Scale 1 : 20,000,000. 



310 Miles. 



general atlas of the Republic in states and territories. This atlas has been com- 

 pleted, but only a few of the maps are based on direct surveys. In 1889 the 

 Argentine Government exhibited at Paris a relief of the whole territory to the 

 scale of -â-ô-ôVô-ôJ ^^^ ^^® materials collected for this work have since been 

 utilised for the construction of a map to the scale of ytt'ôIô'ô'o- ^^^ Astronomic 

 Observatory of Cordoba, whose positions have been carefully detei-mined,* has been 



* South Lat.. 3r 25' 4" ; Long., W. of Greenwich, 6i=' 12' 3". 



