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GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA Continued. 



The United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries Page 226 



The Smithsonian Institution 220 



Alaska 227 



Coast of California 227 



West Indies 227 



Nicaragua 228 



Bermuda 228 



State Surveys 228 



Topographical Survey of New York. J. T. Gardner 228 



State Survey of Kentucky. Prof. N. S. Shaler 229 



State Survey of Pennsylvania. Prof. J. P. Lesley 229 



Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota 231 



Other Surveys 233 



Private Explorations 233 



Peabody Museum, Cambridge 233 



Howgate Arctic Expedition 235 



MICROSCOPY. By Professor Hamilton L. Smith, Hobart College, Ge- 

 neva, N. Y 237 



Limits of Vision 237 



Apparatus and Objectives 238 



Histology 240 



Staining and Mounting 241 



Bacteria, etc 241 



Monads and Amceb^e 240 



For aminifer a, etc 247 



Zoology 248 



Botany 248 



mlcrogeology and mineralogy 252 



ANTHROPOLOGY. By Professor Otis T. Mason, Columbian University, 



Washington. D. C 255 



Archaeology 250 



North America 250 



Middle America 258 



South America 259 



Europe 259 



Africa 202 



Asia 202 



Australia 203 



Ethnology 203 



Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology 203 



Ethnography 26 



North America 26a 



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