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Armenia, Kurdistan and Upper Mesopotamia, with Notes of Researches in the Deyrsim Dagh, in 1866', in: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol.38 (1868) pp. 281–361 ( geographical annotations to this article published by J. Verheij
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Shahrein and Tel-el-Lahm, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 15, pp. 404–415, 1855. In the relevant publications he is erroneously listed as J. E.
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Kurdistan, with Notices of the Sources of the Eastern and Western Tigris, and Ancient Ruins in Their Neighbourhood".
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