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THE paper read by Sir Frank Younghusband at the Royal Geographical Society on Monday, February 13, was one of the most interesting and instructive that the fellows of that society have been privileged to listen to for many years. It afforded a striking exemplification of the advantages of a due coordination of geographical facts and their combination, by a master-hand, into a well-arranged whole. The country traversed by the Tibet mission was by no means a terra incognita to the geographer, for its main features had long been known through the labours of the zealous native explorers of the Survey of India. But it is none the less true that Sir Frank Younghusband's admirable descriptions of the conditions of nature and man in that romantic region enabled his audience to realise those conditions in a way that was never before possible, and brushed away many false ideas which had been previously entertained. The speaker was also able to touch briefly upon some of the results obtained by the scientific experts who accompanied the mission, as well as by the survey party under Captains Rawling and Ryder, which in the late autumn did excellent work along the whole course of the Upper Brahmaputra, proving definitely that no peaks higher than Everest exist on this flank of the Himalayas.
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Geographical Results of the Tibet Mission . Nature 71, 377 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071377a0
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