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without publishing the last ouc) much inclined to become stout, and every 

 time stouter. Beginning of fatty degeneration of the heart was the con- 

 sequence, but when on a new voyage he used to train himself down and 

 felt well again. He would have done so this time also, but got infected 

 with tyjDiis, (typhoid or enteric ?) fever somewhere ; did not heed it 

 but continued to hunt, march and expose himself to every weather, till 

 five days before his end, when his heart would not stand the fever heat, 

 and he succumbed in full possession of his mental powers." 



The death of another well-known Russian explorer and anthropolo- 

 gist — Nikolaus von Miklucho-Maclay — during the year is also announced. 

 He is best known in connection with the exploration of New- Guinea and 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



Eastern Turkestan. — By far the most interesting paper of the year 

 on Asiatic Geography is Lieut. Younghusband's account, in the Proceed- 

 ings, B. G. S., of his journey across Central Asia from Manchuria and 

 Pekin to Kashmir, over the Mustagh Pass. The part of the journey 

 which more immediately concerns us is the description of the route from 

 Yarkand up the valley of the Tisnaf River to the hitherto unexplored 

 Chiragh Saldi Pass, between 15,000 and 16,000 feet in height, and then, 

 by the Yarkand and Surukwat rivers, across the Aghil Dawan range, 

 whence following the Shaksgam River he ascended the Sarpo-Laggo 

 valley, near the grand peak K 2, and reached Suget Jangal, whence, with 

 the greatest difficulty, he crossed the Mustagh Range by the old pass, 

 the new one being closed, and made his way through Kashmir to Rawal 

 Pindi. 



An account has also recently been published of the travels of the 

 three adventurous French explorers, MM. Bonvalot, Capus and Pepin, 

 across the Pamir, in March 1887, noticed in last year's Address. 



An interesting paper on the Tian Shan Range has been presented to 

 the Geographical Society of Berlin by Herr von Krasnof, who visited 

 those regions in 1886, in company with Ignatief, the geologist. His 

 enquiries had special reference to the distribution of plants, and he notes 

 the remarkable differences between the flora of the northern and southern 

 slopes of the range, the former preserving many of the types which 

 characterize the Alpine flora in Europe. He also notices the glacier 

 features of the tract, and discovered some curious prehistoric rock-draw- 

 ings showing that the horse was a domestic animal in very early times. 



A Russian officer, Captain Grombtchevsky, has quite recently visited 

 the Pamir region, the Mustagh Range, the Taghdumbask, and the 

 country to the north of Baltistan. Prom the Ferghana territory he 

 passed by Hai and Lake Karakol to the Southern Pamir region and 

 found an encampment of Chinese Kirghiz on the Murghab. Ho passed 



