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Obituary: Mr. George KennanSource: Geographical Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct., 1924), p. 664Published by: American Geographical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/208306 .

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of that organization, and the University of Grenoble conferred upon him the degree of Docteur honoris causa.

Certain of the lectures will be published at an early date under the title "Pay- sages Americains et Problemes G6ographiques."

OBITUARY

MR. GEORGE KENNAN, well known as an explorer, writer, and lecturer, died at Medina Depot, N. Y., on May o1 in his eightieth year. Mr. Kennan's most interest- ing geographical work arose from his connection with the project of an "overland" telegraph route between Europe and America via Bering Strait, an undertaking abandoned on the successful laying of the transatlantic cable. In 1865 he was sent to Siberia to engage in reconnaissance work over a part of the proposed route. His surveys included the previously unexplored region between the Gulf of Gizhiga (on the Okhotsk Sea) and the Anadyr River. The narrative of the expedition is told in "Tent Life in Siberia" (I870; revised edit., I9IO). In I870-I87I Mr. Kennan explored the eastern Caucasus. In 1885-1886 he investigated the Russian exile system, publishing his findings in a two-volume work "Siberia and the Exile System" (I89I). Among his later writings mention may be made of his graphic account "The Tragedy of Pelee" (1902).

Mr. Kennan was a Life Fellow of the American Geographical Society and a con- tributor to the earlier volumes of the Society's Journal. His sustained interest in the Society is manifested in the bequest to the institution of his large collection of lantern slides.

of that organization, and the University of Grenoble conferred upon him the degree of Docteur honoris causa.

Certain of the lectures will be published at an early date under the title "Pay- sages Americains et Problemes G6ographiques."

OBITUARY

MR. GEORGE KENNAN, well known as an explorer, writer, and lecturer, died at Medina Depot, N. Y., on May o1 in his eightieth year. Mr. Kennan's most interest- ing geographical work arose from his connection with the project of an "overland" telegraph route between Europe and America via Bering Strait, an undertaking abandoned on the successful laying of the transatlantic cable. In 1865 he was sent to Siberia to engage in reconnaissance work over a part of the proposed route. His surveys included the previously unexplored region between the Gulf of Gizhiga (on the Okhotsk Sea) and the Anadyr River. The narrative of the expedition is told in "Tent Life in Siberia" (I870; revised edit., I9IO). In I870-I87I Mr. Kennan explored the eastern Caucasus. In 1885-1886 he investigated the Russian exile system, publishing his findings in a two-volume work "Siberia and the Exile System" (I89I). Among his later writings mention may be made of his graphic account "The Tragedy of Pelee" (1902).

Mr. Kennan was a Life Fellow of the American Geographical Society and a con- tributor to the earlier volumes of the Society's Journal. His sustained interest in the Society is manifested in the bequest to the institution of his large collection of lantern slides.

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