NOTES BY THE EDITOR. XXI 



both of which discoveries are of the highest importance to com- 

 merce. 



The anthropological researches in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 

 revealing the structure, mode of life, and customs of the earliest 

 inhabitants of the earth. 



The assembling at Copenhagen, last August, of the International 

 Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology, under the auspices of the 

 King of Denmark, interesting in the circumstance that it brought 

 into communication with each other learned men from all parts 

 of Europe, and for the valuable information the papers and de- 

 scriptions elicited in respect to the three successive periods of 

 man's early history, known as the stone, the bronze, and the iron. 



The return of Capt. Hall from the Arctic regions with* valuable 

 information respecting that mysterious country. 



The exploration by Dr. Hayes of the remains of the early 

 settlements made on the south-eastern shore of Greenland. The 

 return of captain Adams and his men from the exploration of the 

 Colorado and its tributaries. 



The completion of the French explorations of the river Cambodia 

 to the province of Tunan in China, the official details of which 

 have not yet appeared. 



The expedition of Sir Samuel Baker into the interior of Africa, 

 which started last October. 



The escape of Captain Livingston, of the American ship Con- 

 gress, through a cyclone of extraordinary intensity and force, and 

 the gaining of valuable information thereby. 



The expedition of the Russian Merchant Soidorow, in his own 

 steamer, around the coast of Norway, and through the polar 

 ocean, to the mouth of the Pitschora. 



A dispatch from Bombay, Oct. 6, states: A letter has just 

 been received here from Dr. Livingstone, the gi'eat African 

 traveller. He was at Lake Bangweolo at time of writing (in July, 

 1868), and was in excellent health and spirits. He mentioned that 

 he believed he had at last found the true source of the Nile. 



A caravan arrived at Zanzibar, Oct. 14, >869, bringing the news 

 that Dr. Livingstone had arrived atNigi alive and well. 



A later report, at our time of writing, Feb. oth, 1870, states that 

 he has been burnt as a wizard, by a native chief; it is trusted that 

 time will contradict this. 



In a letter to the Earl of Clarendon, he says : ** I think that I 

 may safely assert that the chief sources of the Nile arise 



