Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London/Volume 34

THE

JOURNAL

OF THE

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

 

VOLUME THE THIRTY-FOURTH.

1864.

EDITED BY THE ASSISTANT-SECRETARY.

 

 

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIV.

 

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Council Report, Balance-Sheet for 1863, and Estimate for 1864	v—xix
Prize for Reflecting Instruments	xx
Letters relating to Maps and Charts	xxi—xxiv
New Foreign Honorary Corresponding Members	xxv
Library Regulations	xxvii
List of Council, Officers, and Fellows.	xxviii—lxxxiv
List of Public Institutions, &c., to which the Publications are presented	lxxxv
Individuals to whom the Royal Premium has been awarded	lxxxvi—lxxxix
Accessions to Library and Map-rooms, with Names of Donors	xc—civ
Instruments lent out. Presentation of Gold Medals.	cv—cviii
Anniversary Address, by Sir R. I. Murchison	cxix—cxciii

 

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[N.B. The Authors are alone responsible for the contents of their respective papers.]

 

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ARTICLES.		PAGE
1.—	Geographical Notes of an Expedition to Mount Kilimandjaro in 1862-63. By the Baron Charles von der Decken, Honorary Corresponding Member R.G.S	1
2.—	Notes on the Island of Formosa. By Robert Swinhoe, F.R.G.S, H.B.M. Vice-Consul at Formosa.	6
3.—	On the Glaciers of the Mustakh Range. By Captain H. H. Godwin-Austen F.R.G.S., Bengal S.C., late H.M. 24th Regt., Assistant in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.	19
4.—	Reconnaissance Survey of the Lake Districts of Otago and Southland, New Zealand. By James M‘Kerrow, Esq. District Surveyor to the Province of Otago	56
5.—	An Exploration up the Moisie River, to the Edge of the Table-land of the Labrador Peninsula. By Henry Youle Hind, M.D., F.R.G.S., Trinity College, Toronto	82
6.—	Notes on the Mountains and Glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand. By Dr. Julius Haast, M.D., F.G.S.	87
7.—	Expedition to the West Coast of Otago, New Zealand; with an Account of the Discovery of a Low Pass from Martin’s Bay to Lake Wakatipu. By James Hector, Esq., M.D. Provincial Geologist	96
8.—	Observations made in Central, Eastern, and Southern Arabia during a Journey through that Country in 1862 and 1863. By W. G. Palgrave, Esq.	111
9.—	Notes on the Physical Geography of Vancouver Island. By C. Forbes, Esq., M.D.	154
10.—	Remarks upon the Geography and Natural Capabilities of British Columbia, and the Condition of its principal Gold-Fields. By Lieutenant H.S. Palmer, R.E.	171
11.—	Notes on the Zambesi and the Shiré. By the late Mr. Richard Thornton. (Addressed to Sir E. I. Murchison, Pres, R.G.S)	196
12.—	On a few Fossil Bones from the Alluvial Strata of the Zambesi Delta. By John Kirk, Esq., M.D., F.R.G.S.	199
13.—	On the Antiquity of the Physical Geography of Inner Africa. By Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.B.. Pres, R.G.S.	201
14.—	Expedition across the Southern Andes of Chili, with the object of opening a new Line of Communication from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, by the Lake of Nahuel-Huapi and the Eivers Limay and Negro. By Don Guillermo Cox, of Chili. (Translated from the Spanish and communicated by Sir Woodbine Parish, K.C.H., F.R.S.)	205
15.—	Details of a Journey through part of the Salado Valley, and across some of the Argentine Provinces. By Thomas J. Hutchinson, F.R.G.S.	226
16.—	Explorations to the West of Lake Nyassa in 1863. By Dr. Livingstone, M.D., LL.D., F.R.G.S. (Addressed to Sir R. I. Murchison, Pres, R.G.S.)	245
17.—	Visit to Lingah, Kishm, and Bunder Abbas. By Lieut.-Col. Lewis Pelly, Acting Political Resident, Persian Gulf. (Communicated by the Secretary to the Government of Bombay)	251
18.—	On the Comoro Islands. By Captain Algernon de Horsey, R.N.	258
19.—	Some Account of the Physical Geography of Newfoundland. By Julian Moreton, Colonial Chaplain, Labuan	263
	Hints to Travellers. By Admiral Sir G. Back, F.R.S.. Admiral Collinson, C.B., and Francis Galton, Esq., F.R.S.	272
Index		317

 

ILLUSTRATIONS.

 

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1.	Von der Decken	Kilima-ndjaro	1
2.	Swinhoe	Formosa	6
3.	Godwin-Austen	Mustakh Range	19
4.	M‘Kerrow, Haast, and Hector	Canterbury and Otago, New Zealand	56
5.	Hind	Moisie River	82
6.	Palgrave	Arabia	111
7.	Forbes	Vancouver Island	154
8.	Palmer	Caribo and British Columbia	171
9.	Cox	Southern Chili	205
10.	Hutchinson	Salado Valley	226
11.	Pelly	Kishm	251
12.	Moreton	Newfoundland	263