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be made to a journey made in Karateghin and Darwaz, in 1882, by the 

 Russian traveller Kosiakof, an account of which appears m the Proceed" 



ings of the Boyal Geographical Society for J; 



In the Trigonometrical branch of the Survey, ; 3 fcwo parties 



engaged on electro-telegraphic longitude operations ; several arcs were 

 measured between Trigonometrical stations, and a party was employed 

 in fixing by triangulation the positions of prominent land-marks and in 

 erecting beacons along the east coast of Madras for the purpose s of the 

 marine survey. The tidal and levelling party continued its usual work 

 of tide-registering and spirit-levelling. The operations of the Top 

 phical branch of the Survey were carried on in the Andaman Islands, 

 Lower Burma, Mysore, Kachh, Gujarat, the Konkan, and the Dekkan in 

 the Bombay Presidency, also in Rajputana, the Mirzapur district of the 

 N.-W. Provinces, and in Baluchistan, in continuation of the work of 

 former years. The surveys of the An ; i/man ;:0 , and Kachh 



were completed during the year. The Hill surve; fas transferred 



from the Sikkim station to Kangra and the Hill States around Simla 

 there to serve as a school for military officers to fit them for reconnois- 

 san.ee in the field. Cadastral surveys for the purposes of the settlement 

 of the land-revenue were carried on in the Bilaspur district of the 

 Central Provinces, the Grorakhpur and Basti districts of the ~N.-W. 

 Provinces, the Kamrup district in Assam, and the Akyab district in 

 Burma ; the similar survey undertaken in the Muzaffarpur district of 

 Bengal, for the purpose of forming a basis for a record of rights, has 

 been stopped by orders of the Secretary of State. 



Geography. — We have some papers bearing on the geography of 

 Afghanistan in the contributions to the Proceedings of the Boyal Geogra- 

 phical Society. That by Sir Peter Lumsden properly belongs to the his- 

 tory of 1885, as also does that by Major Holdich, R. E., on the measures 

 taken to fix the geographical position of Mashad in north-eastern Persia. 

 Col. C. E. Stewart's paper on ' The Herat valley and the Persian border 

 from the Hari-rud to Seistan ' gives an account of an interesting recon- 

 noissance made by him, from Khaf as a centre, to Mashad on the north, 

 Karez on the east, Gazdun and Duruh on the south, and Kundar on the 

 west, through a little-known country. He also discusses the physical and 

 political possibilities of a railway from Quettah to Herat. More con- 

 nected with purely Indian geography is the discussion, in the same Pro- 

 ceedings, between Mr. Freshfield and a well-known and distinguished 

 member of our Society, General Walker, on the actual position of Mount 

 Everest. We have also a paper ' On the River systems of Southern 

 India ' by General Rundall, in which is advocated the formation of 

 storage works for economising the water-supply and the perfecting of 



