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Manasarovara to the north of Kumaon, and attributing to it the name 

 usually given to the Rakhas Tal, to the west of and close to the Mana 

 lake. We have also an account of the journeys made by Captains 

 Maitland and Talbot in Afghanistan, during which the Hirat triangu- 

 lation has been carried to Bamian, and connected with points in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of those fixed by the Kabul triangulation, a 

 total area of about 9000 square miles having been surveyed and recon- 

 noitred on the one-eighth inch scale. Nor should I omit to mention the 

 survey work done by Colonel Woodthorpe, R. E., with the Gilgit 

 Mission, covering some 10,000 square miles of the important and little- 

 known districts of Yasin, Chitral, Hunza-I^agar, and Wakhan and to 

 complete vv^hich with General Lockharfc he has been deputed to 

 England. 



Major C. R. Macgregor describes a journey made by himself and 

 Colonel R. G. Woodthorpe from Sadiya, on the upper waters of the 

 Brahmaputra, to the Karapti Shan region, on the western branch of the 

 Irawadi. The expedition passed through a country inhabited by 

 Kamptis or Shans, Singphos or Kakhyens, Mishmis, Nagas and Kun- 

 nungs, and visited several of their villages including Lungnu and 

 Padao. Another paper on the same region is that by General J. T. 

 Walker, R. E., on the question whether the Lu river of Tibet is the 

 source of the Irawadi or of the Salwin. It gives a summary of our 

 existing knowledge on the subject and an interesting discussion, the 

 general result leaning towards the belief that the Lu-chu of Tibet 

 forms the principal source of the Irawadi. This is in its present stage 

 a matter of purely speculative geography which will doubtless soon find 

 a solution when affairs in Burma become a little more settled. We 

 have also a brief notice of M. Potanin's lecture on his travels through 

 North- Western China and Eastern Tibet, and a paper by Mr. H. E. M. 

 James, giving a detailed account of his travels in Manchuria. Mr. E. D. 

 Morgan's resume oi Russian geographical work in 1886 tells us of much 

 that has been accomplished by the St. Petersburgh Geographical So- 

 ciety, and in military topographical work by officers of the staff-corps 

 and corps of military topographers in Asiatic Russia and Bokhara. 



Mr. A. D. Carey's very modest account of his journey with Mr. 

 Dalgleish round Chinese Turkistan, and along the northern fix^ntier of 

 Tibet, tells of an achievement second to none accomplished of late. Travel- 

 ling from India by Leh, he crossed into Tibet by way of Polu and Kiria to 

 Khoten, thence keeping the line of the Yurangkash river to Shahyar, he 

 struck the Tarim and followed it up to Lob Nor. Proceeding thence in 

 a south-easterly direction, he skirted the great mountain ranges forming 

 the northern boundary of the Tibetan highland, known as the Altun and 



