1838.] 



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tural history. The results of the expedition in detail may shortly be 

 expected. 



Hanover and Brunswick.—The topographical map of these countries, 

 in 67 sheets, by Papen, has issued 10 sheets during the past year. Also 

 the various maps in course of publication in the different states of Ger= 

 many have each added this year a few sheets to their number. 



Saxoni/.—l^he map of Saxony, by Schlieben, has furnished 7 sheets^ 

 and the Statistical Society at Dresden is active in collecting and diffus- 

 ing topographical as well as statistical information relating to the 

 country. 



Prussia. — Three sheets of the Government map of Prussia have been 

 issued ; and two of that by Engelhardt. A general list of the maps 

 and geographical works in course of publication will be found at the 

 end of the last volume of the Society's Journal, and which will be con- 

 tinued. The catalogue would be too long to enumerate them here j 

 yet if those only were mentioned that are based upon strict principles, 

 the number, it is feared, would be but small. The subject of the ortho- 

 graphy of names of places demands serious attention ; and this may be 

 more especially remarked in maps of Asia and Africa. If the Geogra- 

 phical Societies of Berlin, of Paris, and of London could be induced to 

 adopt some general standard for orthography of Arabic, Turkish, Per- 

 sian, &c. names, perhaps all geographers, even if they might not fully 

 approve of it, would, for utility's sake, adopt it. 



Tuscany. — In addition to Padre Inghirami's excellent map, and 

 Zuccagni Orlandini's Atlas of this state, Repetti is publishing a geo- 

 graphical dictionary of the Grand Duchy, which has reached the letter 

 L. ; thus, perhaps, no state in Europe will be more correctly de- 

 scribed. 



Greece.— Besides the admirable map of the Morea, made under the 

 immediate superintendence of Captain Pey tier and M. Puillon Boblaye, 

 and published on the scale of 2--o,oVo^-o> oi* about 3 miles to an inch, the 

 French have just completed a survey of 800 square leagues of Northern 

 Greece, comprising Euboea, Attica, Boeotia, Phocis, and Locris.* The 



* See Bulletin de la Society de Geographie, Dec. 1836, and March, 1837, 



