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Bulletin de la Société de Géographic, Paris, 3 Trimestre, —The principal portion of this number is occupied by papers of M. Huber, who spent the years 1878 to 1882 in Arabia on a scientific mission on behalf of the Department of Public Instruc tion. In the first he introduces 145 inscriptions which he found in various parts of Central Arabia on rocks. The second article is the first instalment (accompanied by a map) of an account of his numerous and extensive journeys in the same region, from Palmyra and Bagdad in the north, to Kheiber in the south. A glance at the route map shows that he has explored the greater part of this region during his prolonged stay there.—M. Petitin, in his account of his journey in Indo-China, gives a lengthy description of the difficulties and dangers which the traveller encounters in this peninsula. He was selected by Admiral cle la Grandiere when Governor of Saigon to make a geological investigation of Cochin-China, Siam, Hainan, and Formosa, but the death of the governor and the appointment of another whose views were different cut M. Petitin's explorations short. He saw enough, however, to give a brief account of the geology of Cochin-China, and to give the intending traveller much advice as to his arrangements and preparations. He also urges his countrymen to extend their dominion in the Indo-Chinese peninsula, especially in Tonquin, where the Red River affords them an opening into the heart of China.—M. la Meslle's paper on the eastern provinces of Australia is little more than a lively account of a journey in Queensland, while the object of M. Simonin's article on the ports of Great Britain -especially London, Liverpool, and Glasgow—is not quite apparent, unless it be to urge his countrymen to go and do likewise with their ports.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 31, 118 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031118a0
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