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investigation of the various localities, especially in search of 

 one that, while furnishing facilities in the way of water, and 

 at the same time not too near any watering-place, is readily 

 accessible by rail. All these advantages he finds at Wime- 

 reux, a station not far from Boulogne, connected with it by 

 railway, and but three hours from the city of Lille. He has, 

 therefore, with considerable effort, secured the means of fit- 

 ting up a building placed at his command for the purpose, at 

 an expense of about $600, and a large amount of work has 

 already been executed at the new station. 8 JB, September 5. 

 1874,217. 



THE FAUXA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



In a paper upon the geographical relations of the New 

 Zealand fauna, Captain Hutton, a well-known naturalist of 

 that country, attempts to show that this is the remainder of 

 a continental fauna, and that there was one epoch during 

 which South America, New Zealand, Australia, and South 

 Africa were all connected, though not at the same time ; also, 

 that New Zealand became isolated before the spread of the 

 mammals, and has never since then been completely sub- 

 merged. Subsidence next followed, and the evidence then 

 points to a second continent, stretching from New Zealand to 

 Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia, and extending into 

 Polynesia for an unknown distance, but certainly not so far 

 as the Sandwich Islands. Subsidence again followed, and 

 New Zealand was reduced for a lono* time to a number of 

 islands, upon many of which the moa lived. This was fol- 

 lowed by an elevation ; these islands became connected, and 

 a large island existed disconnected from Polynesia. This 

 was once more followed by subsidence, and the geography 

 of New Zealand assumed somewhat of its present character. 

 13 A, September 15, 1873, 352. 



DEEP-WATER FAUNA OF LAKE GENEVA. 



Dr. Forell has lately been prosecuting a careful inquiry into 

 the deep-water fauna of Lake Geneva, and has obtained some 

 interesting results which are worthy of being placed on record. 

 It was ascertained that the mud at the bottom of the lake, at 

 a depth of about 100 feet and upward, is every where of ex- 

 treme fineness, and of a clayey, calcareous nature, sufficiently 



