The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 348 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. several valuable works, sucli as those of Hermann Burmeister and Martin de Moussy. A common direction is also given to individual studies by such estab- lishments as the Buenos Ayres Institute, the La Plata ]\Iuseum, and the University of Cordoba. Nevertheless, the Argentine Bepublic still lacks a good topographical map analogous to those of West Europe, the United States, Mexico, and parts of Brazil. In 1882 the Buenos Ayres Geographical Society resolved to prepare a F
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 348 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. several valuable works, sucli as those of Hermann Burmeister and Martin de Moussy. A common direction is also given to individual studies by such estab- lishments as the Buenos Ayres Institute, the La Plata ]\Iuseum, and the University of Cordoba. Nevertheless, the Argentine Bepublic still lacks a good topographical map analogous to those of West Europe, the United States, Mexico, and parts of Brazil. In 1882 the Buenos Ayres Geographical Society resolved to prepare a Fig. 143.—Chief Routes of Exploeees in Patagonia. Scale 1 : 20,000,000. 310 Miles. general atlas of the Republic in states and territories. This atlas has been com- pleted, but only a few of the maps are based on direct surveys. In 1889 the Argentine Government exhibited at Paris a relief of the whole territory to the scale of -â-ô-ôVô-ôJ ^^^ ^^® materials collected for this work have since been utilised for the construction of a map to the scale of ytt'ôIô'ô'o- ^^^ Astronomic Observatory of Cordoba, whose positions have been carefully detei-mined,* has been * South 3r 25' 4' ; Long., W. of Greenwich, 6i=' 12' 3'.
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