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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. II., No. 37. 



D. — Biology. 

 Newton, Prof., Zoological bibliography . . £50 

 Sclater, V. L., Natural history of Timor Laut . 50 

 Lankester, Prof. Ray, Table at the zoological 



statioirat Naples 80 



Harrison, J. Park, Facial characteristics of 



races in the British Isles .... 10 

 Hooker, Sir .1., Exploring Kilimandjaro and the 



atljoining^mountains of equatorial Africa . 500 

 Cordeau.'C, Mr. J., Migration of birds . . .20 

 Foster, Dr. M., Coagulation of the blood . . .TO 

 Stainton, Mr. H. T., Record of zoological litera- 

 ture 100 



E. — Geography. 

 Oodwin-Ansten, Lieut. -Col., Exploration of 



New Guinea 100 



F. — Economic Science and Statistics. 

 Brabrook, Mr. E. W., Preparation of the final 



report of the anthropometric committee . 10 



G. — Mechanics. 

 Bramwell, Sir F., Patent legislation ... 5 



— Lieut. Ray returned to San Francisco, Oct. 7, 

 by the schooner Leo. He left that port on July 18, 

 18S1, under instructions from the signal-service bu- 

 reau to establish a permanent signal-station at Point 

 Barrow, and to remain there until the summer of 

 1884, unless otherwise ordered. The order for the 

 party to return created great surprise, as the work 

 was successfully carried on. Lieut. Ray stated, 

 that, apart from the scientific importance of tlie sta- 

 tion, it was a necessity, as a refuge for the crews of 

 whaling-vessels. Every year, in the Arctic Ocean, 

 there are, on an average, forty vessels, worth, with 

 their cargoes, four million dollars, and employing 

 sixteen hundred men. Out of eighty-seven vessels, 

 fifty have been lost within a hundred miles of Point 

 Barrow, in one year alone. In 1877 twelve were lost, 

 with all on board. The crews would not abandon 

 their vessels, knowing there was nothing on the shore. 

 Had the station then existed, it is probable that all 

 their lives would have been saved. Since the station 

 was established, two years ago, over fifty lives have 

 been saved. Lieut. Ray states, that all the party 

 lived comfortably, and enjoyed good health, the cli- 

 mate being particularly beneficial to those suffering 

 from malaria. Besides their regular provisions, the 

 party had seal, walrus, and white whale meat; the last 

 being the best, as it was sweeter and more nutritious. 

 Lieut. Ray expressed regret at his recall. 



— Lieut. Schwatka, who, with his party, was 

 picked up by Lieut. Ray at St. Michael's, speaking 

 of his trip up the Yukon River, Alaska, says they 

 started from Fort Vancouver, W.T., on May 21, 

 and travelled twenty-eight hundred miles overland, 

 reaching the head waters of the river, where they 

 constructed a raft of logs to navigate the stream to 

 its mouth. They procured a crew of six Indians, 

 and proceeded down the gradually increasing stream 

 within two hundred and fifty miles of Fort Chilcat, 

 where rapids were encountered. Down these the 



Indians refused to go, and attempted to force the raft 

 ashore. Schwatka ."iucceeded in suppressing the 

 mutiny, and the rapids were run. The voyage on 

 the raft was eighteen hundred and twenty-nine 

 miles. From the mouth of the Yukon they pro- 

 ceeded to St. Michael's, where they boarded the Leo 

 for this port. Signal-service oflicer Leavitt, who 

 has been stationed at St. Michael's, and who also 

 came down on the Leo, says he has ascended the 

 Yukon to Fort Selkirk two thousand miles from its 

 mouth. He describes the river as being one of the 

 largest in the world, discharging fifty per cent more 

 water than the Mississippi, and as being in places 

 seven miles in breadth. 



— Professor Oswald Heer, of the university and 

 federal polytechnic school of Zurich, the celebrated 

 Swiss paleontologist, died at Lausanne, Canton de 

 Vaud, the 27th of September. Heer has done more 

 for fossil botany and fossil insects than any one else 

 during the last forty years, and his death will leave 

 a place in science which it will be difiicult to fill. 



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