352 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Various parties from Australia have been busily engaged 

 in exploring certain localities in New Guinea for gold, but 

 their search has not as yet proved very successful. 



In a recent number of the Bulletin of the Paris Geograph- 

 ical Society, Dr. E. T. Ilamy shows that nearly every part of 

 the coast of New Guinea was visited by the old Spanish navi- 

 gators between 1528 and 1606 ; but on the maps derived from 

 their observations, its shape was very inaccurately laid down. 



CARTOGRAPHY AT THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. 



The official reports relating to maps and charts at the late 

 International Exhibition are not yet published, but one or 

 two geographical periodicals have given short reviews of 

 the cartographical collections, among the best of which is 

 that by Mr. C. Vogel in Petermann's Mittheilungen (1879, 

 No. 12). 



None of the government departments of the United States 

 contributed either charts, maps, or plans, so that there was 

 no exhibition from this country worth mentioning. 



The admirable maps and charts of the English Ordnance 

 Survey and of the Admiralty were not shown, and the Ens- 

 lish exhibit was not at all extensive. Terrestrial and celes- 

 tial globes, shown by Messrs. Newton & Co., are spoken of, 

 however, very highly. 



Canada sent an immense map of the Dominion, nearly 40 

 feet long, prepared for the exhibition, showing the location 

 of the principal products, fields, forests, mines, fisheries, 

 etc. 



The most prominent and striking map in the exhibition 

 was a military map of France, on a scale of 1 : 80,000. In 

 this enormous map 258 sheets were joined together, attaining 

 a height of more than 42 feet. This map has been in course 

 of publication for 45 years, and stands foremost, not only for 

 its size, but for its clearness and uniformity, and as being the 

 only completed military map of any of the large countries of 

 Europe. 



The general exhibit, by France, of maps, charts, and globes 

 was very excellent and extensive. 



The maps and charts shown by Holland were among the 

 finest and best collections. As in France, the most striking 

 map was one by the Bureau of Topographical Engineering, 



