Excerpt from Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, Vol. 8: Rédigé Avec le Concours de la Section de Publication par les Secrétaires de la Commission Centrale, Année 1887Les secrétaires généraux de la Société ont toujours con sidéré comme le principal honneur de leurs fonctions d'avoir à vous exposer chaque année les progrès accomplis par la géographie.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.