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in our columns. References are grouped according to the various specialities of 

 medical art. In addition to the mere references, Mr. Baudouin hopes to add soon 

 a special service of abstracts and translations. We do not know if foreign sub- 

 scribers are admitted ; but if so, we should recommend English students and 

 practitioners to avail themselves of this praiseworthy organisation. 



We learn from the Eastern Evening News of January 26 that the old tower of 

 Eccles Church on the Norfolk coast is no more. Famous to geologists from the 

 writings of Lyell, it has borne witness to the encroachments of the sea along our 

 eastern shores. Originally placed on the marsh inside the dunes, it was gradually 

 overwhelmed by the advancing sand, so that when sketched by Lyell in 1839 it was 

 in the midst of the sand-hills. As the sand drifted inland the tower was left 

 standing on the foreshore, with the basement portions of the nave showing amid 

 the sand and shingle of the beach. Year by year, notwithstanding the efforts to 

 protect the coast by means of groynes, the tides have beaten more and more often 

 against the church, so that nothing but the substantial architecture and the 

 foundation of tough boulder-clay have enabled it to survive so long. During the 

 storm of January 23 the sea dashed furiously against the tower, the spray of the 

 breakers going at times over its summit. Eventually, the fabric was overthrown, 

 splitting in two in its fall, and now all that is left of it are huge masses of masonry 

 lying about in strange confusion. 



Further details have been received of Lieutenant von Gotzen's expedition across 

 Africa from Pangani, opposite Zanzibar, to Banana at the mouth of the Congo. 

 The journey occupied only a little over thirteen months, viz., from October, 1893, to 

 December, 1894. The main new results were in the exploration of the group of 

 mountains named Mfumbiro, to the south of Ruwenzori. This was first seen by 

 Speke, but most of our knowledge of it is due to Stanley. Lieutenant von Gotzen 

 finds it to consist of a group of five peaks, one of which, Virungo, is an active 

 volcano. He discovered a new lake which is of interest as the source of Ruzizi, a 

 river well known in the old controversies as to the connection of the Tanganyika and 

 the Nile. This river was claimed by Livingstone as an outlet from the lake, but 

 Stanley demonstrated that it is really an inlet. Lieutenant von Gotzen reached this 

 district by ascending the Kagera river and then following the Lowa through the 

 forest region to the Congo. 



Globus informs us that an expedition has been sent by King Menelik of Abyssinia 

 to the lakes Suai, Hogga, and Orrorecha. Lake Suai lies in a volcanic tract, and 

 supports on its islands a population of about 1,000 Christians who had fled the per- 

 secutions of Mohammed Granye. Two streams feed the lake, the Maki from 

 Guraghi, and the Katara from the Albaso plateau. The three lakes are connected 

 together, but Orrorecha is salt ; all three are said to drain into the Indian Ocean by 

 the Wesa (Webi-Sidama). 



Johannes, a German, succeeded in visiting Balball or Dalubi lake, at the 

 western foot of Mt. Meru. It was found to be 1,260 yards N.N.E. S.S.W. long by 

 875 wide, is situate on a hill 200 feet high, and is enclosed by steep cliffs. 



Mr. Donaldson Smith has been turned back by the Abyssinians in Gallaland 

 and has had to partially retrace his steps. He hopes, however, finally to reach 

 Lake Rudolph, though it is slow travelling with the camels in the hilly regions. 



Dr. Sven Hedin writes to the Geographical Society from Kashgar, November 9, 

 respecting his explorations between Mustagh-ata and Kashgar. He has constructed 

 a topographical map, collected rock specimens, and made geological observations 

 which will complete the researches of Bogdanovich. Hedin intended to start for 

 Lob Nor in December ; he will cross the Tarim Desert. He has decided not to 

 attempt to get to Lhassa, but will deal especially with the geology of the Kuen-Lun 

 range. Mrs. Bishop reached Pekin, after a journey from Seoul through Moukden, in 

 October ; a postscript dated November 24 shows that the traveller was at 

 Vladivostock. Mrs. Bishop hopes to return to England in April. 



