Another ship due in Shanghai to-aay Is the French colonial. cruises Savorgnan de Brazza (Commander de 1a Forest Divonne), arriving from Nagasaki. The Savorgnan will moor at the French Naval Buoy, alongside the Tahure, which is there at present.
On Friday the Regulus, sloop, is to arrive from Swatow for a stay of a fortnight, Commander Sicara, who. commands the sloop, will carry, but the duties of senior French naval aifleer in port during his stay he Da. A. Herrmann, a private lec turer at the Berlin' University, has been commissioned by an American institute to compile an atlas China, which will consist of 100 Individual maps covering the whole' of China and illustrating the prehistoric, historical, scientific and political conditions' of the country. When completed, the atlas will be: a standard work in the domain of Sinology and will be of considerable international importance.
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