Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 2): General hypsometry of India, the Himalaya, and Western Tibet, with sections across the chains of the Karakorúm and Kuenlúen: comprising, in addition to messrs. de Schlagintweit's determinations, the data collected from books, maps, and private communications (Leipzig, 1862)

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PBEFACE.

England, by Lord Stanley, his successor Sir Charles Wood, and the
heads of the various departments of the India Office; in India, by
General Sir Andrew Waugh and Colonel H. L. Thuillier.

This volume was on the point of being published, when
Lord William Hay communicated to us the important news, that he
had succeeded in his endeavours to recover Adolphe's manuscripts
relating to his last and fatal journey to Turkistan. An account of their
discovery by Lord Hay, to whom we have repeatedly had occasion to
allude for his kind services in connection with our publications, is
contained at the end of this volume. It is preceded by a report, in
which the testimony of the several native witnesses examined in
reference to the lamentable fate of our brother, has been carefully
sifted by Mr. Thornton, in conjunction with Colonel Laughton and
Messrs. Scriven and Smith, two gentlemen of the Indian medical
service.

The topographical portion of Adolphe's manuscript, which reached
us January 10, 1862, will be embodied in our third volume.