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ANNALS OF DISCOVERY.

1901-4. Otto Nordenskiold. 1901-4; 1910-12. Scott. 1907-9. Shackleton. 1911-12. Amundsen.


CIRCUMNAVIGATORS.

A.D. 1522. Sebastian del Cano. 1577-79. Drake. 1739-44. Lord George Anson.


ATLANTIC OCEAN.

A.D. 1400. Jehan Bethencours. 1432. Cabral. 1442. Nuño Tristão. 1471. Pedro d'Escobar. 1471. Fernando Po. 1492-93. Columbus. 1501. Juan di Nova. 1501. Tristan d'Acunha. 1502. Bermudez.


INDIAN OCEAN.

A.D. 1505. Mascarenhas.


PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE

B.C. 570. Anaximander of Miletus. 501. Hecatæus of Miletus. 446. Herodotus. Circa 200. Eratosthenes, 100. Marinus of Tyre. 20. Strabo. Before 12. Agrippa. A.D. 150. Ptolemy, 230. Peutinger Table. 776. Beatus. 884. Ibn Khordadbeh. 912-30, Mas'udi, 921. Ahmed Ibn Fozlan. 969, Ibn Haukal. 1111. Water-compass, 1154. Edrisi. Circa 1180. Alexander Neckam. 1280. Hereford map. 1284. Ebstorf map, 1290, The normal Portulano, 1320. Flavio Gioja. 1339. Dulcert. 1351. Medicean Portulano. 1375. Cresquez. 1419. Prince Henry the Navigator. 1457. Fra Mauro. 1474. Toscanelli. 1478. 2nd ed. Ptolemy. 1492. Behaim, 1500, Juan de la Cosa, 1507-13, Waldseemüller. 1520. Schoner. 1538. Mercator. 1544. Munster. 1556-72. Laperis, 1573. Ortelius. 1592. Molyneux globe. 1598, Hakluyt. 1630, Ferro meridian fixed, 1638. Blaeu. 1645. Sanson. 1700. Delisle. 1718. Jesuit map of China. 1731. Hadley. 1735-37. Maupertuis. 1745-61, Bourguignon d'Anville. 1765. Harrison. 1767. Nautical Almanac. 1788. African Association. 1810-29. Malte-Brun, 1817, Stieler. 1830. Royal Geographical Society founded. 1842, Jomard, 1845. Petermann. 1846. Spruner. 1875-94. Elisée Reclus. 1872-76. The Challenger.