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Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Journal mss, Miscellaneous, 1877, Mueller, F.Manuscript received by the Royal Geographical Society on 22 January 1877. Francis Galton, the referee, reported on 12 February 1877: ‘Baron Mueller’s hope that a Geographical Congress could frame rules for Geographical nomenclature “to which the whole world would bow” seems to me too Utopian. I do not think the communication deserving of being printed.’One of M’s visiting cards is pinned to the manuscript. In the manuscript, paragraphs are indicated by ‘—’; these marks have not been transcribed, but paragraph breaks have been made accordingly