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AN interesting project was laid before the Associated Swiss Societies of Geography at their meeting at Berne last month, by M. Müllhaupt. He suggested the formation of an international geographical bureau for the following purposes:—(1) To carry out the resolutions arrived at by the International Geographical Congresses. (2) To male exchanges every month, or oftener if need be, between the eighty odd geographical societies; in place of each society sending its own publications in eighty different directions, it would only have to send them all at once to the bureau, which would do so. This, he claims, would save both time and money. (3) To publish, in the four or five principal languages, a summary of the contents of the publications of the various geographical societies; instead of each society being forced to do this for itself, a single examination would suffice to put them all au courant with what has been done all over the globe. There would in this way be the further advantage of knowing what was published by societies like the Geographical Society of Japan, the publications of which are in a language not generally known in Europe. M. Müllhaupt thought that the idea was not a, difficult one to be carried out; the expenses would be shared by the numerous societies interested. These contain approximately 38,000 active members, and doubtless the countries having an interest in the pr gress of the geographical sciences would take part in a central organisation of the nature here suggested.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 31, 182–183 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031182a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/031182a0