382 Geographical Notices. 
more than the usual variety of interesting papers and maps. 
mong them, we may mention an account, by M. Chandless, 
tained, notwithstanding that there have been four previous sur- 
veys of the river. Mr. Chandless also contributes a paper on 
the river Aquiry, the principal affluent of the river Purtis. For 
these unaided surveys over a distance of 1,866 miles, the Geo- 
graphical Society awarded to Mr. Chandless the Victoria gold 
me wo articles, translated from the Russian of M. enlu- 
kof, convey a large amount of interesting matter, respecting 
the knotty and hitherto unsatisfactory geography of the Bolor 
Dagh, and the country of the Belors. 
to by writers in the middle ages, and now recognized with diffi- 
culty in the nomenclature of modern maps and lexicons. 
Behm’s “ Geographisches Jahrbuch,” (Leipsic, 12°) for 1866, 1 : 
a valuable manual for ready reference in geographical studies. ; 
It is designed to convey, in the first place, geographical par 
es Tespecting all the countries of the globe, arranged not Pie 
betically, but continent-ally,—inclading the areas and popula 
tion of provinces and states, according to the latest local author- 
ities. This part is followed by tables of the principal known 
eights of mountain-peaks and of lakes, measurements of river 
basins, and select climatic data. 
recent Ptogress of geographical science, by different writers, 
tables, designed to facilitate the transfer of geographical meas- 
urements, from the terminology of one opine to that of another. 
A work so useful deserves general encouragement. 
____, “rom recent numbers of Petermann’s Journal we gather the 
= following intelligence, 
