KARL

ANDREE (1808-1875)  , German geographer, was born at Brunswick on the 20th of October 18o8 . He was educated at Jena, Gottingen and Berlin . After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the Bremer Handelsblatt . From 1855, however, he devoted himself entirely to geography and ethnography, working successively at Leipzig and at Dresden . In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical Globus . His works include Nordamerika in geographischen and geschichtlichen Umrissen (Brunswick, 1854), Geographische Wanderungen (Dresden, 1859), and Geographic des Welthandels (Stuttgart, 1867-1872) . He died at Wilduhgen on the loth of August 1875 . His son RICHARD, born on the 26th of February 1835, followed his father's career, devoting himself especially to ethnography . He wrote numerous books on this subject, dealing notably with the races of his own country, while an important general work was Ethnographische Parallelen and Vorgleiche (Stuttgart, 1878) . He also took up cartography, having a chief share in the production of the Physikalisch-statistische Atlas des deutschen Reiches (Leipzig, 1877), Allgemeine Handatlas (first ed., 1881), and other atlases; and he continued the editorship of the Globus .