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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. I., No. 10. 



— The Bureau of ethnology has just received a 

 copy of Duruy's photographic reproduction of the 

 Maya Codex, known as the ' Manuscript dit Mexicain, 

 or Codex peresianus.' According to Dr. Brinton, 

 only ten copies of this work were issued, one of which 

 is in his library. The one received by the bureau is, 

 therefore, the second which has found its way to this 

 country. 



— The more prominent geographers deceased in 

 the year 1882 are: Antinori, known for his travels in 

 Africa; Crevaux, supposed to have been killed by 

 Indians while descending the Pilcomayo; Darwin, 

 who began his great work by a voyage around the 

 world; Delitsch, most widely known as editor of Aus 

 alien welttheilen ; Desor, whose work was chiefly 

 geological, in Switzerland and this country; Gill, an 

 explorer of inner China, massacred with Palmer, by 

 the Arabs on the Sinai peninsula; Liitke, the Kus- 

 sian navigator; Parish, author of works on the Ar- 

 gentine Kepublic ; Petheriok, an early explorer of the 

 upper Nile; Nain Singh, the most celebrated traveller 

 of the Indian pundits; Rawson, a member of the re- 

 cent English arctic expedition under Nares, who died 

 from wounds received at Tel-el-Kebir; Rodgers, of 

 our navy, an explorer of the northern Pacific and 

 Arctic; H. v. Schlagintweit-Sakiinliinski, one of the 

 three brothers widely known for their explorations in 

 the Alps, and later in India and central Asia; Wyville 

 Thomson, chief of the scientific staff of the Chal- 

 lenger ; and Warren, of our engineer department. 



— The zoological gardens at Cincinnati seem to 

 be in a flourishing condition. The receipts for 1882 

 were nearly $50,000 ($3,418 in excess of expenditures), 

 of which nearly $30,000 came from gate-money. The 

 animals on exhibition numbered nearly 800; and 

 among those bred in the garden during the year were 

 grizzly bears, the zebu, the bison, and half a dozen 

 kinds of deer. 



— In Science, p. 266, column 1, line 8, for ' dol- 

 lars ' read 'shillings.' 



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