Southern amerika. O.Derbi in minas-zheraise, gojjase and a dignity-paulo

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However Germans have most of all advanced business of studying of the country for this period. They had been made almost all opening, minus the valuable geological investigation made by the American of O.Derbi in Minas-Zheraise, Gojjase and the Dignity-paulo (1886) and expedition Kudro already mentioned by us in the north. Among German travellers it is necessary to allocate SHtejnena which in 1884 has proceeded with the group downwards along all current of Xingu, from Batovi to its confluence of Amazon. In three years it investigated other source of Xingu, Kuliseu, and has collected new data on inhabitants of this area. Some other sources of Xingu remain not investigated and to this day. In this area the most valuable work was done also by G.Meyer. In 1895-1896 it had been partially investigated the rivers Zhatoba and Ronuru. In 1899 it has returned and again was engaged in studying Ronuru and its inflows whereas other members of expedition have strongly advanced business of studying of botany and area ethnography.

Last the expedition organised by the state commission on research of the Central Brazil was worthy. The problem has been assigned to this commission podyskanija a suitable site for new capital of Brazil, and during the work it investigated the big territory in east part of staff Gojas. Experts have collected the big material on geology and botany, geodesists have precisely defined co-ordinates of some points and have in many respects corrected not satisfactory cards available at that time. The director of an observatory in Rio de Janeiro L.Krulo, and the work it supervised over expedition has spent in an interval between summer of 1892 and the beginning of next year.