4 GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL ADVERTISER. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO.'S NEW LIST. FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND BRITISH COLONIES. Exeter College, Oxford, and formerly Professor at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. Under the above title it is proposed to publish a series of small Volumes descriptive of the principal Countries of the World, each country being treated of by a writer who from personal knowledge is qualified to speak with authority on the subject. The general aim of the Series will be to present a clear and accurate idea of the actual state of the different countries, in a sufficiently popular form to prove interesting to the general reader, waile at the same time it is intended that the works should be useful for educational purposes. The Volumes will average 180 crown octavo pages, and will contain Maps and a few typical Illustrations. The price of the Volumes will be 3s. 6d. each The following Volumes are ready or in preparation :— DENMARK AND ICELAND. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. EGYPT. SPAIN. TURKEY-IN-ASIA. AUSTRALIA. HOLLAND. Now ready, crown 8vo., 230 pp., price 3s. 6d. THE WEST INDIES. BY CHARLES H. EDEN, F.R.G.S., Author of "Frozen Asia," "The Fifth Continent," &c. With Map and Illustrations. GREECE. SIR By LEWIS SERGEANT. With Illustrations and Physical and Political Maps, showing proposed Boundary. The New Volumes in the Illustrated Biographies of the great Artists are— "Celebrated Flemish and French Pictures," &c. Illustrated with 16 Fac-similes of Etchings, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. By F. S. PULLING, M.A., Oxford. Illustrated with Reproductions of 16 of his most celebrated Paintings, including "The Duchess ILLUSTRATED TEXT-BOOKS OF ART EDUCATION. Edited by EDWARD J. POYNTER, R.A. Each volume contains numerous Illustrations, and is strongly bound for the Use of Students. Price 5s. CLASSIC THE VOLUMES NOW READY ARE AND ITALIAN. By EDWARD J. POYNTER, R.A.; and PERCY R. HEAD, Lincoln College, Oxford. Upwards of 80 Full-Page and other Illustrations. Bound in extra cloth, limp, 58. [Ready. This Volume contains an introductory Preface on Art Education by Mr. Poynter, who also contributes a chapter on Egyptian Art, and succinct notices of the various Italian Schools, &c. ARCHITECTURE. GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE. By T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A. 120 Illustrations. Cloth limp, 58. [Ready. ** This Volume treats of the history of Architecture from the rise of the Gothic style to the general depression which overtook the Renaissance style at the close of the eighteenth century. DEVONSHIRE AND FERNS. Visitors to Devonshire and all Lovers of Ferns Should read FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH'S FERN WORLD' and 'FERN PARADISE,' -works which have reached Sixth Editions, have received the highest possible praise from the entire British Press, and have already induced many thousands of tourists to visit the fairest county of England.' Both volumes are profusely Illustrated and elegantly bound, and are sold either complete or in Shilling Numbers. To be had of all Booksellers in the United Kingdom; or in handsome cloth volumes at 12s. 6d. each. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, E.C. CONTENTS OF VOL. XLIX. Council Report, May, 1879, and Balance-Sheet for 1878 List of Council, Officers, Honorary and Honorary Corresponding List of Public Institutions, &c., to which copies of the 'Journal' and Individuals to whom the Royal Premiums, &c., have been awarded .. 1.-Itineraries of the Second Khedivial Expedition: Memoir explaining the New Map of Midian made by the Egyptian Staff-officers. By 3.-An Account of the Country traversed by the Second Column of the Tal-Cho'tia'li Field Force in the Spring of 1879. By Lieut. R. C. TEMPLE, F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., &c., Bengal Staff Corps; lately 4. The Modifications of the External Aspects of Organic Nature pro- 5.-Notes upon some Astronomical Observations made in Kordofan and |