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U.S. National Committee of the International Geographical Union, National Academy of Scieces--National Research Council., 1896 - Geography
Proceedings for 1952- include the Proceedings of the 8th- General Assembly of the International Geographical Union.
 

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The Scope and Value of Arctic Exploration By General A W GREELY
203
A Plan to reach the North Pole by Balloon By S A ANDRÉE
209
Les Recherches des Russes de la Route Maritime de Sibérie Par JULES
239
Étude sur la Modification des Côtes de Normandie Par M G LENNIER
247
Simultaneous and Parallel Application of Decimal Arithmetic to the Measure
255
On Time Reform and a System of Hour Zones By Professor DITALO
261
The Geodetic Operations of the Indian Survey By General J T WALKER
269
Le Nivellement Général de la France Par M CHARLES LALLEMAND
299
A Brief History of the Surveys and of the Cartography of the Colony of
321
On the Geodetic Survey of South Africa By DAVID GILL LL D
341
Rapport du Comité du Ve Congrès International des Sciences Géographiques
361
Rapport sur lExécution des Décisions du Ve Congrès International
387
Projet de Répertoire des Découvertes Géographiques de 1800 à 1900
399
Voyages Scientifiques du Yacht Princesse Alice Par ALBERT PRINCE
437
Remarks on Ocean Currents and Practical Hints on the Method of their
443
The Relations of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current By WILLIAM
461
De lÉtude de lOcéanographie par les Sociétés de Géographie ayant leur
475
On some Points connected with the Orthography of Placenames
483
Per la Trascrizione e la Pronuncia dei Nomi Geografici Del Dr GIUSEPPE
505
Unification Internationale de Translitération en Caractères Latin pour
513
The Extent to which Tropical Africa is suited for Development by the White
523
On Tropical Africa in Relation to White Races By JOACHIM GRAF
537
Races or under their Supervision? By LIONEL DÈCLE
555
Experiences in the Sudan By Colonel RUDOLF SLATIN PASHA
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Page 205 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 208 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 206 - Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy The rage and rigour of a polar sky, And plant successfully sweet Sharon's rose On icy plains, and in eternal snows.
Page 789 - GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD. By Archibald Geikie, LL.D., FRS, Director-General of the Geological Surveys of Great Britain and Ireland. Cloth. . . . .75 ILLUSIONS : A Psychological Study. By James Sully, author of "Sensation and Intuition," "Pessimism,
Page 688 - But this new order of things — a ranch bounded only by the horizons, where, as far as one could see, to the north, to the east, to the south, and to the west...
Page 205 - THE discovery of Russia by the northern ocean,* made first, of any nation that we know, by Englishmen, might have seemed an enterprise almost heroic ; if any higher end than the excessive love of gain and traffic had animated the design.
Page 759 - LES pays ne sont pas cultivés en raison de leur fertilité, mais en raison de leur liberté...
Page 479 - Neither will any change be made in the spelling of such names in languages which are not written in Roman character as have become by long usage familiar to English readers : thus Calcutta, Cutch, Celebes, Mecca...
Page 573 - Africa suitable for colonization by Europeans. 2. By encouraging travellers to sketch areas rather than mere routes. 3. By the formation and publication of a list of all the places in unsurveyed Africa which have been accurately determined by astronomical observations, with explanations of the methods employed. 4.
Page 313 - Quatorze médimarémètres, établis parle service du nivellement général de la France, fonctionnent aujourd'hui sur les côtes de la Manche, de l'Océan et de la Méditerranée. Quatre autres de ces appareils ont été installés sur le littoral de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie, les uns par le service géographique de l'armée, les autres par le service du nivellement. La Belgique en a également établi un à Ostende.

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