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sels by which they were taken to Dundee, whence they pro- 

 ceeded to Washington. 



No complete account has yet been published of the scien- 

 tific results of the expedition, although we are assured that, 

 disastrous as was its termination, a great deal of important 

 information has been added to our knowledge of the arctic 

 regions. All branches of science received a satisfactory de- 

 gree of elucidation ; and, although in consequence of the loss 

 of some of the records, the results in all departments can 

 not be given with equal fullness, it is certain that no previ- 

 ous expedition has done more to make known the physical 

 and natural history of the regions adjacent to the North 

 Pole. 



As already remarked, the latitude of 82 16' is by far the 

 highest ever reached by any vessel ; and the specimens of 

 botany, zoology, and geology brought in and now deposited 

 in the Smithsonian Institution represent a higher latitude 

 than that of any previous collection. 



EXPLORATIONS BY LACAZE-DUTHIEES ON THE COAST OF 



ALGIEES IN 1873. , 



Among the more important explorations into the natural 

 history of the deep seas, prosecuted during the year 1873, we 

 may mention that of M. Lacaze-Duthiers, an eminent French 

 naturalist, and editor of a leading zoological journal. His 

 work was prosecuted on board the Narval^ a government 

 vessel engaged in the hydrographic survey of the coast of Al- 

 geria. 



The special object in view on the j^art of Lacaze-Duthiers 

 was the studying anew of the coral banks which he had 

 explored in 1860-61 and 1862. Accompanied by M. Velan, 

 a young geologist of the Sorbonne, he embarked on the first 

 of May, and for five months they were engaged in carrying 

 on their investigations. Numerous soundings were made 

 from Gibraltar to Cape Negro, in Tunis, and important re- 

 sults secured. 



Although the English explorations of the same region, un- 

 der the direction of Dr. William B. Carpenter, had been al- 

 most entirely barren, so much so, indeed, as to induce a gen- 

 eralization as to the extreme scantiness of the fauna of the 

 south coast of the Mediterranean, the present exploration ob- 



