614 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



in the Tsehucktchie country, about latitude 66, on the 8th of 

 October, 1870. The crew were obliged to betake* themselves 

 to the shore, where they were hospitably treated by the na- 

 tives, and where they spent the winter, undergoing more or 

 less of privation. On the 16th of June, 1871, however, they 

 succeeded in reaching the bark John Wells, of New Bedford, 

 and the shipwrecked men were distributed among the dif- 

 ferent vessels of the whaling fleet, and were sharers in the 

 disaster which lately befell that body of men. 



exhibition" of curiosities in japan. 



According to the Yale College Courant, a new era in the 

 educational development of the Japanese has been entered 

 upon in the opening of an exhibition of curiosities of nature 

 and art in Yedo in the beginning of April last. The formation 

 of collections of this kind is usually characteristic of an ad- 

 vanced stage of culture ; and, in imitating the European and 

 American example in this respect, the Japanese show their 

 great superiority to the Chinese and other Oriental nations. 

 The exhibition referred to was opened in a temple sacred to 

 the spirit of Confucius, and situated in the grounds of the old 

 Chinese college. This institution was the chief seat in Japan 

 of the study of the Chinese literature, but has been closed 

 for some years, as the study of the Chinese has now become 

 obsolete. 



The exhibition, to which a charge for admission of about 

 two cents was made, was projected by the Japanese them- 

 selves, and although small, yet, according to the writer in 

 the Courant, it was really very good and well selected. The 

 specimens were those mainly pertaining to the fauna and 

 flora of Japan, embracing reptiles, fishes, insects, and birds, 

 the last being well stuffed and, mounted. Specimens of 

 timber, in polished slabs, were exhibited ; and the cases of 

 insects were filled with a very great variety of species. To 

 the wonders of nature were added numerous art curiosities, 

 mainly of old and rare patterns of lacquered bronze. College 

 Courant, June 8, 1872, 268. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MARQUETTE. 



The scientific tendency of the age, manifested in the con- 

 tinual springing up of new associations in different parts of 



