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contributes an interesting paper on the daily movements of the soil 

 in Santiago, illustrated by 18 plates of diagrams. M. Philibert 

 Germain describes a journey to Bolivia, in which he gives some 

 interesting account of the Aymara Indians and the Lamas, and also 

 ;gives a result of three months' work in the valley of Sipotuba, in the 

 now revolted province of Matto Grosso. Some notes on the synonymy 

 of some Chilian insects is the only paper published in Spanish. M. 

 A. F. Nogues has a memoir on the " Genesis of Gold," than which 

 no more appropriate subject for study could be found in a South 

 American republic. The publications of the Deutsche Verein im 

 Santiago are well known to all naturalists. 



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