Abstract
A RUSSIAN journal announces the early departure of a scientific expedition, under the direction of Lieut. Onatsevitch, to make hydrographic investigations in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okkotsk. One of M. Onatsevitch's assistants, Ensign Heller has already gone to Vladivostock in the cruiser Asie, taking with him numerous instruments with which the hydro-graphic department has equipped the expedition. M. Lanevsky Volk and four other naval officers will accompany M. Onatsevitch by way of Siberia. The object of this expedition is to fill lacunæ in the works of Babkine, Bolchew, Staritsky, Yelagnine, and others. It will have to explore, especially from the hydro-graphic point of view, the mouths of rivers which fall into the Sea of Japan, from the southern frontier of Russia to the Bay of Castries. It will make geodetic observations in the southwest part of Peter the Great Bay and at the mouth of the Amour. Lastly, it will study the water-courses, and the east and south parts of the o Isle of Sakhaline, the district of La Perouse, &c.
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