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ly full and ample, and will doubtless elicit satisfactory re- 

 sponses. The zoological instructions are given in rather less 

 detail, on the ground that the director, Professor Wyville 

 Thomson, is an accomplished zoologist, and has had much ex- 

 perience in marine exploration, and is fully aware of the de- 

 siderata. 



Under the head of Concluding Observations, attention is 

 invited to the geology of districts hitherto unexplored, the 

 propriety of taking photographs of native races to one scale, 

 and of making the necessary observations in regard to their 

 personal history and past condition. Collections of hairs of 

 the unmixed races are considered to be valuable. Each sta- 

 tion is to have a special number associated with it in the regu- 

 lar journal of the day's proceedings, to be noted prominently 

 on every thing connected with that station, so that, in case 

 of labels being lost, or other references failing, the conditions 

 of the dredging or other observations may be easily ascer- 

 tained by reference to the number in the journal. All speci- 

 mens procured are to be carefully preserved in spirit or oth- 

 erwise, and packed in cases with the contents noted. A diary, 

 giving the general proceedings and results of each day, is to 

 be kept by the scientific director, with the assistance of his 

 secretary, and each member of the scientific staff is provided 

 with a note-book in which to enter any observations and pro- 

 ceedings ; this to be submitted to the scientific director, who 

 will then abstract the results and incorporate them, to be 

 sent home to the Admiralty at every available opportunity. 



We learn that the Hydrographic Office at Washington pro- 

 poses to reprint this pamphlet for the use of the United 

 States navy. 



ARCTIC COMMITTEE OF THE LONDON GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 



The Arctic Committee of the Council of the Geographical 

 Society of London has, it is understood, come to a conclusion 

 in reference to the scene of labor of the proposed British ex- 

 pedition for arctic exploration. They premise that any prop- 

 er scale of arctic discovery must embrace three essential 

 points: the certainty of exploring an unknown area of great 

 extent, the probability of valuable discoveries in various 

 branches of science, and reasonable certainty of a safe return. 

 As these can only be secured where an extensive coast line 



