DR BEKE. 



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Dr Beke, in his character of ' Theoretical Dis- 

 coverer of the Nile Sources/ has published the 

 following studies. 



e On the Nile and its Tributaries/ a state- 

 ment of his then novel views (Oct. 28, 1846, 

 and printed in the Journal Royal Geographical 

 Society, vols, xvii., xviii. of 1847-8). £ The 

 Sources of the Nile : being a General Survey of 

 the Basin of that River, and of its Head-streams, 

 with the History of Nilotic Discovery ' (London, 

 Madden, 1860). The appendix contains a sum- 

 mary of Dr Bialloblot sky's projected journey. 



' On the Mountains forming the eastern side 

 of the Basin of the Nile, and the origin of the 

 designation, " Mountains of the Moon," applied 

 to them.' This paper, being refused by the Boyal 

 Geographical Society, was read (August 30, 1861) 

 before the British Association at Manchester. 



6 Who discovered the Sources of the Nile ? ' 

 A letter to Sir Roderick I. Murchison (Mad- 

 den, Leadenhall- street, 1863). 



c On the Lake Kura of Arabian Geographers 

 and Cartographers.' This paper argues that 

 the equatorial Lake Kura-Kawar, drawn by 

 an Arab, and published in Lelewel's " Geo- 

 graphic du Moyen Age," represents the lakes 

 and marshes of N. lat. 9°. 



