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OF THE 
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Part IL—PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
No. II.—1866. 
Russian Geographical Operations in Asta.—Communicated by Lreut.- 
Col. J. T. Watxur, &. H.* 
[Received 8th March, 1866. ] 
TRANSLATION oF A Portion or tHE “ Compre Renpvu pE LA Socinee 
ImpPERIALE GuogrRaPHIQuE DE Russie” ror. 1864. 
The Society has never failed to profit by every opportunity that 
has presented itself, for extending our geographical knowledge of 
the countries bordering on Central Asia; consequently, in the month 
of February last year, M. Severstow, a distinguished Naturalist, who 
Was accompanying an expedition into the countries beyond the Ili 
and the Tchou, was charged to collect information, with a view to 
preparing a physico-geographical description of all the countries through 
which the expedition would pass. 
* Of the two accompanying papers, one is a translation of a portion of the 
*“Compte Rendu de la Société Impériale Géographique de Russie,” for the year 
1864, while the other is a translation from the 4th volume of the Journal of the 
Russian Geographical Society for 1864. 
In the first the names are spelt as in the original French memoir. 
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