384 hvdk(.)GRAphi-:r's dkpartment of the admiralty. 



Next he discovered New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, etc., and 

 }>roceeded via Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope, 



From whicli lie returned home after a voyage of over 60,000 miles, 

 which left the main outlines of tlie Southern portions of the glohe sul) 

 itantially as they are known to-day 



The ereatest tribute of. all to his seaiiian.ship and power of organ- 

 isation is that, during the whole of thi< voyage he lost only one 

 man. 



In 1776 he started on his third voyage, and, sailing North 

 from New Zealand, discovered the Cook Archipelago, and re- 

 discovered the Sandwich Islands, first seen by the Spanish 

 Gaetano, in 1555, but concealed and forgotten. Thence he 

 reached the American coast, a little south of where Portland. 

 Oregon, now stands, and worked northwards, surveying as he 

 went on, through Behring Straits and up to latitude 70^ 41'. 

 where the ice stopped him. He exi)lored both shores of the 

 Straits, and then returned to llawaii. where he was killed on the 

 14th of February, 1779. 



A Lunar Volcano. — In a bulletin of Harvard College 

 ( )bservator}- attention has l)een called by I'rof. W. H. Pickering 

 to recently observed ])henomena in connection with the lunar 

 crater Einmart. The interior of the crater was very brilliant in 

 January, 191 3, but darkened considerably in March, the darkness 

 persisting until February, 1914, when it again attained the bright- 

 ness of twelve months previously, but not the brilliancy of 

 January, 1913. when it was the brightest area of its size then 

 visible on the moon. The crater is 25 miles in diameter, and its 

 interior easily observed. Ihe interior is full of brilliant detail, 

 constantl}- varying, not only from night to night, but also from 

 month to month. 



