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hereafter explore these unknown regions under circumstances 

 favourable to observation. We cannot but regret that there was 

 not a naturalist attached to the expedition, and yet probably he 

 could not have done more than merely tabulate what he would 

 have seen, for it would have been next to impossible to convey 

 specimens along such a route and under such disadvantages. 

 Emin Pasha is an accomplished botanist, entomologist, ornitholo- 

 gist, and geologist, and it is to be hoped that he will before long 

 give the world the benefit of the vast accumulations of notes 

 which he has for many years been making. 



Had space permitted we should have referred to the geograph- 

 ical problems touched upon, for it is here that Stanley has done 

 his best work. The Nile and Congo watersheds were determined 

 by him years ago, and now many of the large tributaries of these 

 majestic rivers are understood. The lakes in the vicinity of 

 Emin's seat of government have been thoroughly explored ; the 

 problem of the mountains of the moon, as old as Ptolemy, has 

 been settled ; and the character of the vast region between the 

 Atlantic seaboard and the Indian Ocean determined. The maps 

 which accompany the volumes are valuable and permanent con- 

 tributions to our knowledge, and one glance at them is enough to 

 indicate the vast labour expended in their production, as well as 

 to demonstrate the importance of Stanley's careful survey of the 

 country to the commerce, politics^ and science of the future. 



Change of Address. — The address of the Rev. William 

 Spiers, is now 329, Beverley Road, Hull. 



The Rev. W. Spiers has received from Mr. A. Chopin several 

 flints which were found during the Wesley Scientific Society's 

 recent excursion to the Isle of Man. They were met with near 

 Port-St.-Mary, and are undoubtedly artificial. There seems to 

 have been no record of such flints having been found in that 

 precise locality before. Mr. Spiers has sent a communication on 

 the subject to the Isle of Man Natural History Society. 



