250 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



called the Jakati, and succeeded in obtaining, at altitudes of 

 from three to six thousand feet, all the known birds-of-para- 

 dise of New Guinea, together with one hitherto undeseribed. 

 12 A, December 4, 1873, 79. 



DISCOVERIES OF ABBE DAVID IX MAUPIN, CHINA. 



Much interest has been excited among zoologists by the 

 remarkable discoveries made within the past few years, by 

 the Abbe David, in the district of Maupin, a portion of China 

 in the " Yungling Mountains," which separate China proper 

 from Thibet. His labors have been continued from 1868 to 

 the present time, and the results have been published by the 

 professors in the Museum of Natural History in Paris in their 

 well-known Archives. The region itself is not very extensive, 

 although characterized by a great variety of altitudes, which 

 range from seven to fifteen thousand feet above the level of 

 the sea. No less than one hundred and ten species of mam- 

 mals were collected in ten months' residence by the Abbe 

 David, of which about forty were new to science, and some 

 of them of a most remarkable character. Among these may 

 be especially mentioned a new species of monkey, covered 

 with dense hair, and having a turned-up nose, which inhabits 

 the highest forests, adjoining the snow. The existence of 

 two or three other species of monkey was also ascertained. 



Among the insectivora were many new species of some 

 types and new genera, others belonging to those already 

 known. 12 A, May 14, 1874, 32. 



GEODESY IN THE ISLAND OF CORSICA. 



Perrier, who has recently had charge of the new geodetic- 

 al survey of the island of Corsica, states that in the former 

 work by Durand, in 1827, an attempt was made to connect, 

 by triangles having sides of the enormous length of 122 and 

 167 miles, the position of this island with the geocletical 

 points on the mainland. In his late attempt to revise this 

 work, having found that the signals established by Tranchot 

 had mostly disappeared, and that many topographical points 

 could not be recovered with certainty, he has judged it nec- 

 essary to execute an entirely new triangulation of Uie island, 

 and lias prepared a chart on the scale of * \ 00 , in which, by 

 contour lines, he represents geometrically every feature in 



