288 SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON’S ADDRESS— EUROPE. [May 24, 1858. 
publication, and which will be noticed hereafter in our own publica- 
tions.* 
France . — Through the Report of the 4 Bulletin de la Societe de 
Geographie ’ of Paris by M. Alfred Maury, one of the Secretaries of 
that Society, we learn that the 20th part of the Map of France by 
the “ Etat-Major,” on the scale of T has been issued. The 
Depot de la Guerre has also completed a reduction of it in 16 
sheets, and on the scale of 3 -g-oWo* 
The Survey of Algiers is in progress, on scales varying from 
TflUTTIJO to -gooVo 0* 
Availing themselves of their leisure hours at Rome, the French 
officers have completed a Map of the South-Eastern part of the Papal 
Dominions on the scale of to which has been adjoined a Plan 
of Rome and its environs on the scale of 
In the neighbourhood of the French possessions in Africa, the 
officers of the Etat-Major have compiled a Map of the Regency of 
Tunis, founded upon the observations of M. Falbe ; and another, with 
the assistance of Capt. Baudouin, of the Empire of Marocco. 
M. Linant, so well known by his earlier exploits, has produced 
a hydrographic chart of Egypt, and a map of Etbaye, the country 
inhabited by the Bichari Arabs. 
In addition to the mention of the labours of the Depot de la Marine 
in the last year’s Address, we have to thank that office for numerous 
charts since presented to us, whilst MM. Delamarche and Ploix 
have completed a line of soundings between Port Yendres in France 
and Algiers. The late M. Yincendon-Dumoulin, in company with 
the distinguished surveyor Capt. de Kerhallet, has published a 
work entitled ‘ Etudes sur le Detroit de Gibraltar ; ’ and in the 
second edition of the 4 Etudes sur les Ports de l’Algerie,’ lately pub- 
lished, a series of excellent charts has been presented, the execution 
of which does credit to M. A. Lieussou. Lieutenant A. Boucarut 
has prepared the nautical documents for the Manual of the Naviga- 
tion of the River Plata; and Capt. A. Legras has published an 
excellent work, entitled 4 Description des lies et des Passages com- 
pris entre la partie N. de Pile de Lugon et les lies du Japon.’ 
The work of our own Horsburgh on the Indian Seas, already 
rendered into French by Admiral le Predour, has received con- 
siderable additions from MM. Darondeau and Reille. From Captain 
Cloue we have a notice of the Sea of Azov, of which our associate 
* Atlas hypsometrique, avec des eclaircissements. 
