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_ ders. Victoria was much the largest, and its course ‘was examined for 
140 miles. The natives discovered on the banks are represented as 
fine, bold men, contrasting strikingly with the “ miserable objects” seen 
at Sidney. The Albert and Flinders empty into Gulf Carpentaria. 
The former runs through a country of great beauty, the best seen in 
northern Australia. The farthest point reached was named the Plains 
of Promise, from the conviction that future explorers of the interior 
of this continent, must here take their departure. Capt. Stokes feels 
assured that with camels and little expense, the exploration would be 
easily effected— Discoveries in Australia, during a voyage of H. M. 
S. Beagle, under J. L.. Stokes, Commander, 2 vols——Athenum, June 
27,1846. . te 
____ InSouth Australia valuable copper mines have lately been opened. 
The first was discovered at Kapunda in 1842, and to the close of 1845, 
‘No less than 1200 tons of ore had been sent to England. ‘The ore is 
-PMincipally the sulphurets and carbonates of copper. The Montacute 
Mine was opened in 1844, and is considered very promising. Still an- 
other mine of great-extent has been since found in the. vicinity of Ra- 
zorback Mountain about 100 miles north of Adelaide. — 
“11. Mount Ararat ;. (L’Institut, No. 649.)—M. Abich, who has 
lately been engaged in a scientific journey over Asia Minor, has dis- 
‘Covered in the vicinity of Mt. Ararat, rocksof the era before the coal, 
4nd to the southeast of the valley of the Araxes, where in the middle 
a ~Of the: river stands the island of rocks of Corvirab, he has detected 
es Sprifers, Terebratulas, a Productus and Crinoidea. Hardly 20 versts 
‘tom Ararat he collected the Cyathophyllum flexuosum ; and not 
eS distant, in the Daralagian Mountains, perpendicular beds filled with 
a Productus, Orthis, and Crinoidea occurred surrounded by Jurassic beds 
__—s entaining small Exogyri. M. Abich will return to Ararat by the 
B*. Mountains of Maku to complete his chart of the region. 
1. Museum of Natural History at Paris; (Athen., July 11, 1846.) 
ee The Chamber of Deputies has voted a sum of 136,786 francs for 
ene of ground wanted for the purposes of the Museum of 
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18: IM. Jacobi-—This distinguished geometrician of Berlin has been 
elected to fill the vacancy in the list of foreign members of the Acad- 
my of Sciences at Paris, occasioned by the death of M. Bessel. The 
“other candidates were MM. Brewster, Buckland, Herschel, Liebig, 
Melloni, Mitscherlich, and Tiedemann. — 
oes Lavoisier, (Athen. July 18, 1846.)—The founder of Chemistry, 
Lavoisier , Was, as our readers know, snatched away by a violent and 
Siterang, re death, ere he had found time to collect and arrange his 
“rks. In 1843, the Minister of Public Instruction consulted the Acad- 
