ALPINE EXPLORER HONOURED.
I The Royal Scottish. Geographical Society recently presented the Livingston© gold medal, the highest honour this bocietv is able to confer, upon Mr Douglas W. Freshfield. D.0.L.. president of the Royal Geographical Society, in recognition of the great services he has rendered to geographical science, apart from his exploration work- in the Alps, Caucasus and Himalayas, and his books dealing with these mountains. Mr Frcshfiold. in acknowledging the medal, referred to the great advance which had been made in Britain in the teaching of geography and in the production of maps and textbooks. There were now, he said, beautiful ordnance survey maps where, thir-ty-five years ago. there was nothing to compare with the mnps produced by' the Swiss —
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11926, 8 February 1917, Page 1
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