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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Volume the Forty-Sixth. 1876. Edited by the Assistant-Secretary.

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Volume 46 (1876) of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. No institution did more to foster and finance the great feats of British exploration in British exploration’s most celebrated and prolific era than the Royal Geographical Society, and it was in the yearly journal that the great and the good of Victorian exploration first published accounts of their journeys.

This particular volume contains twenty different articles covering explorations from all six continents (not including Antarctica), as well as the usual council report, list of council officers, list of award-holders and anniversary address, and eighteen accompanying folding maps. Some of the most famous expeditions include Henry Morton Stanley’s mission to Lake Victoria, Robert Barkley Shaw’s journey through eastern Turkistan, and Charles George Gordon’s survey of the White Nile.

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