256 NATURAL GSCLNCE. APRIL, 1893. 
continents and ocean basins, and is strongly inclined towads the view 
that in the main they are permanent. 
In the Geographical Fournal for March, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill has 
a short paper on the Permanence of Ocean Basins. 
In the Fournal of Botany for March, Miss Barton makes progress 
with her ‘“ Provisional List of Marine Algz of the Cape of Good 
Hope,” and there is a paper by E. D. Marquand on the “ Mosses of 
Guernsey.” 
THERE is a portrait and an interesting and full account of the 
career of Frederick Courteney Selous, the Nimrod of South Africa, 
in the March number of the Review of Reviews. The thirteen pages 
devoted to Mr. Selous bristle with adventures, and form altogether an 
instructive and readable record of the dangers and excitements of 
hunting big game. Mr. Selous is more than a hunter, for he has 
many times enriched the national collection with rare or new beasts ; 
some of his most stirring experiences are illustrated in the article. 

WE learn from a telegram received from Berlin on the 15th inst. 
that Dr. Stuhlman, one of Emin Pasha’s late companions, has arrived 
at that place. He has brought with him two female dwarfs from the 
Upper Ituri district of Central Africa, who will be examined scientifi- 
cally by Professor Virchow. The telegram, however, does not 
contain any news of Emin. 
Miss AGNES CRANE informs us that the fifteen-spined sticklebacks 
(Gastevosteus spinachia) have just commenced their annual nest-building 
in the Brighton Aquarium. 
Messrs. L. REEVE & Co. have in preparation a new work on 
the British Aculeate Hymenoptera from the pen of Mr. Edward 
Saunders, uniform with the same author’s work on the Hemiptera 
Heteroptera just completed, and noticed in our last number. 
On March 16, at a meeting of the Royal Society, Professor 
Rudolf Virchow delivered the Croonian Lecture, taking for his subject 
‘‘ The Position of Pathology among the Biological Sciences.” 
