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zero, Fahr., and the barometer an atmospheric pressure of 

 eight pounds to the square inch. 



Important additions to meteorological science are expect- 

 ed from the records taken in Galera, under the direction of 

 Dr. E. L. Bissell and Mr. H. B. Tobias, correspondents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Panama Star and Herald^ August 

 5,1873. 



BEEXSTEIN's travels IX THE MOLUCCAS. 



A valuable contribution has lately appeared in Peter- 

 mann's Mittheilungen in the form of a report of Dr. Bern- 

 stein's journeys in the Moluccas, which region he visited, un- 

 der the auspices of the government of the Netherlands, for 

 the purpose of making zoological collections for the National 

 Museum at Leyden. Starting in 1861, he was engaged for 

 about three years, during which he visited Halmahera Bat- 

 chan and Waigou, to the northwest of New Guinea. A sec- 

 ond engagement, also of three years, was entered into by him, 

 during which he visited New Guinea, but, becoming broken 

 down by the climate, he was obliged to return. The zoolog- 

 ical collections made by Dr. Bernstein have been very rich, 

 and have added much to our knowledge of the fauna of the 

 region referred to. These consisted largely of birds, but em- 

 braced also many otber objects of natural history. 



SIBERIAN EXPLORATIONS OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF 



ST. PETERSBURG. 



The Geographical Society of St. Petersburg has lately un- 

 dertaken a new exploration of Russian territory in addition 

 to those already carried on under its auspices. For this pur- 

 pose the sections of mathematical and physical geography 

 presented to the councils of the Society in October last a pro- 

 gramme of an expedition having for its object a geograph- 

 ical and geological expedition to the Olenek and the Lower 

 Tunguska. It is proposed to intrust the direction of the 

 expedition to Mr. Tchekanoosky, the programme having been 

 drawn up by Mr. T. Schmidt, who is already favorably known 

 in connection with similar enterprises. 



The plan consists in a minute exploration of the area be- 

 tween the lower affluents of the Yenisei and the Lena, cm- 



