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reports, including the one on the geology and 

 paleontology of Nebraska. These latter vol- 

 umes contain thirteen charts, most of them 

 representing the volcanic region of the sources 

 of the Yellowstone and Snake Rivers. There 

 have also been various separate publications, 

 as the tables of heights in the Western Uni- 

 ted States by Gannett, and the volume of me- 

 teorological observations in Utah, Idaho, and 

 Montana, by the same ; a manual of ornithology 

 of the Northwestern Territories by Dr. Elliott 

 Coues ; a synopsis of the flora of Colorado, by 

 Prof. Porter and J. M. Coulter ; a catalogue 

 of the photographs taken by W. H. Jackson ; 

 a supplement to the fifth annual report upon 

 the fossil flora of the West, by L. Lesquereaux ; 

 and a synopsis of the new vertebrate animals 

 of the Tertiary period in Colorado, by Prof. 

 Cope. A Bulletin of the Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey of the Territories has now 

 been commenced, which will, from time to 

 time, communicate the results of the labors of 

 the commission, thus preventing their being 

 scattered through a great number of publica- 

 tions of various kinds. The first two numbers 

 of the Bulletin are taken up mostly with ac- 

 counts of the paleontology of the newly-ex- 

 plored regions by Prof. Cope. The demand 

 for complete series of the reports of the Uni- 

 ted States Geological Survey of the Territories 

 is so large that the first three annual reports 

 have been ordered by the Secretary of the 

 Interior to be reprinted. They are issued in a 

 stout octavo volume of 261 pages. 



The new geographical magazine, under the 

 editorship of Guido Cora, bearing the title of 

 Cosmos, which was started two years ago in 

 Turin, continues in a successful career. 



The able English periodical, Ocean Highways, 

 has changed its form and title, but still con- 

 tinues to be published under' the editorship of 

 Mr. Markham. It appears monthly, under the 

 name of The Geographical Magazine. 



The commission of commercial geography, 

 chosen conjointly by the French Society of 

 Geography and the Syndical Chambers of 

 Paris, have decided upon the establishment 

 of a journal of commercial geography, to be 

 called V Explorateur, whose .objects are to be 

 the publication of the labors of the Com- 

 mission of Commercial Geography, and also 

 of the French and foreign geographical socie- 

 ties, to keep up a bulletin of the prices cf 

 commercial commodities in distant markets, 

 and to present news relating to commercial 

 geography, and articles illustrative of subjects 

 connected therewith, and principally to en- 

 courage French commercial enterprise in dis- 

 tant countries. It will appear at least as often 

 as once a week, in handsome form, with maps 

 and illustrations, and is likely to be well sup- 

 ported. 



The following works are the most notewor- 

 thy of the geographical publications of the year : 

 Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey of the Territories. F. "V. Hayden, 



United States Geologist-in-Charge, Nos. I. and II. 

 (Washington, 1874.} 



Charles Nordhoff: Northern California, Oregon, 

 and the Sandwich Islands. (New York, 1874.) 



Dr. J. M. Toner : Dictionary of Elevations and 

 Climatic Begister of the United States ; containing, 

 in Addition to the Elevations, the Latitude, Mean 

 Annual Temperature ? and the Total Annual Bain- 

 fall of Many Localities ; with a Brief Introduction 

 on the Orographic and other Peculiarities of North 

 America. (New York, 1874.) 



Beadle: The Undeveloped West ; or. Five Years 

 in the Territories. (Philadelphia, 1874.) 



Adolf Bastian : Die deutsche Expedition an der 

 Loangokuste, nebst alteren Nachrichten iiber die zu 

 erforschenden Lander. (Jena, 1874.) 



Baker : Ismailia : A Narrative of the Expedition 

 to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave- 

 Trade, organized by Ismail. K he 1 dive of Egypt. By 

 Sir Samuel Baker, Pasha, F. E. S. 2 vols. (London, 

 and New York. 1874.) 



Livingstone : The Last Journals of Dr. Living- 

 stone in Eastern Africa, from 1865 to his Death, con- 

 tinued by a Narrative of his Last Moments and Suf- 

 ferings, taken down from the Mouth of his Faithful 

 Servants Chuma and Susi. Edited by Eev. Horace 

 Watler, F. E. G. S. (London and New York, 1874.) 



Koldewey : The German Arctic Expedition in 

 1869-'70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the Hansa 

 in the Ice. By Captain Koldewey, Commander of 

 the Expedition, assisted by Members of the Scien- 

 tific Staff: translated and abridged by Eev. L. Mer- 

 cier, M. A., and edited by II. w. Bates. Assistant 

 Secretary E. G. S. (London and New York, 1874.) 



Captain G. S. Nares : Eeports, with Abstract of 

 Soundings and Diagrams of Ocean Temperature in 

 North and South Atlantic Oceans, in 1873. (London. 

 Published by the Admiralty Department, 1874.) 



Albert Hastings Markham : A Whaling Cruise to 

 Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia. (London, 

 1874.) 



Hiibner : A Eamble round the World. 1871. By 

 Baron de Hiibner. Translated by Lady Herbert. 

 (London and New York, 1874.) 



MacGahan : Campaigning on the Oxus, and the 

 Fall of Khiva. By J. A. MacGahan, Correspondent 

 of the New York Herald. (New York, 1674.) 



Henry Walter Bates : The Naturalist on the Eiver 

 Amazons. (Boston, 1874). A reprint of an old 

 work. 



Paul Marcoy : Travels in South America from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. 2 vols. (New York, 

 1874.) A reprint of a work published some years 

 since. 



J. Thompson : The Straits of Malacca, Indo-Chi- 

 na, and China, or Ten Years' Travels, Adventures, 

 .and Eesidence abroad ; with Woodcuts from the Au- 

 thor's own Photographs and Sketches. (London, 

 1874.) 



Henry Walter Bates : Warburton's Journey across 

 Australia : an Account of the Exploring Expedition 

 sent out by Messrs. Elder & Hughes, under the Com- 

 mand of Colonel Egerton Warburton, giving a Full 

 Account of his Perilous Journey from the Centre to 

 Eoebourne, Western Australia ; with Illustrations 

 and a Map, edited with an Introductory Chapter. 

 (London, 1874.) 



Blake: Captain Tyson's Arctic Adventures ; Arc- 

 tic Experiences, containing Captain George E. Ty- 

 son's Wonderful Drift on the Ice-Floe. a History of 

 the Polaris Expedition, the Cruise of the Tigress, 

 and Eescue of the Polaris Survivors ; to wliicli is 

 added a 'General Arctic Chronology ; edited by E. 

 Vale Blake, with Map and Illustrations. (London, 

 1874.) 



Thomas J. Hutchinson : Two Years in Peru ; 

 with Exploration of its Antiquities. 2 vols. (Lon- 

 don, 1874.) 



J. L. Geiger : A Peep at Mexico, Narrative of a 

 Journey across the Eepublic from the Pacific to the 



