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days broughtn he party to the Mormon colony of Bacheco located in a 

 -small valley or plain in the mountains. This was the last settlement seen 

 for about a month. Mount Chuhuichupa was passed, where Gen. Crook 

 had captured the Apaches, and the gi-eat difficulties and dangers he must 

 have encountered were here realized. Traveling w^as very difficult and slow 

 and attended by great danger in the roughest jjart of the mountains. The 

 fall of an animal down some steep cliflt' became a common occurrence. The 

 scenery was full of grandem-. In the very heart of this region were passed the 

 ruins of smelters built by the early Spaniards who had worked the mines at 

 Guaynopa and other points which are now abandoned. 



The party soon left this wild region, striking the town of Temosachie, 

 on the main traveled trail to the mining district of Pinos Altos. The trails 

 were fairly good through the mining towns of Pinos Altos and Jesus Maria, 

 and various small pueblos on the road to Batopilas These pueblos w^ere 

 inhabited partly b\^ Mexicans and partly by Indians, all very poor and pos- 

 sessing a very low order of intelligence. The Indians encountered were 

 mostly Tarahumaras, who raise flocks of sheep and goats and cultivate 

 small plats of land on the mountain slopes and in the valle^-s. and are usu- 

 ally honest and peaceful. 



Before reaching Batopilas another extremely rough countrj^ was trav- 

 ersed in the Barranca de Cobre, where an English company is working an 

 old mine. The canon here is about 4<,000 feet deep, and the trails are very 

 steep and dangerous. Batopilas is about a week's journey from here and is 

 situated on a river at the bottom of a deep caiion, about 2,500 feet above 

 sea level. It is in the southwestern corner of Chihuahua, near the states of 

 Julisco and Durango. It is one of the largest and richest mines in the state 

 and is owaied by Americans. At this point, w^hich is in the neighborhood of 

 400 miles south of Deming, but in reaching which probably double that dis- 

 tance was traveled, the party was disbanded in May, 1892. Dr. Lumholtz 

 decided that the main object of the expedition, the proof of the existence or 

 non-existence of Cliff Dwellers, could be better accomplished by his travel- 

 ing alone, obtaining Indian guides as he found it necessary. A full account 

 of the expedition will probably be published in the Bulletin of the American 

 Geograpical Society, New York, when Dr. Lumholtz finally completes his 

 exploration. He contemplates publishing a book describing the people and 

 country, with incidents of the expedition. 



Observations on the collections of minute aquatic forms 

 made by Messrs. Worcester and Bourns in the Philippine 

 Islands, by Chas. S. Fellows. 



[abstract.] 



At the writer's suggestion, on their expedition to the Philippine Islands 

 Messrs. Worcester and Bourns took with them apparatus especially de- 

 signed for the collection and preservation of minute aquatic forms. 



Unfortunately the apparatus was lost, and in the early part of their 

 stay no collections of these forms were made. 



