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relief models where the vertical is five to eight 

 times as large as the horizontal scale. The 

 map, made at Fukuoka, the home of its de- 

 signer, is based upon the general staff map, 

 and the results of the topographic surveys have 

 been carefully reproduced in this miniature 

 representation of the mountains, valleys, 

 plains and seas of the island empire. Every 

 place of any importance is indicated; and the 

 map gives a vivid idea of the remarkable de- 

 velopment of Japan in postal, railroad, tele- 

 graph and steamship enterprises. 



The quarterly return of births, deaths and 

 marriages for England and Wales has been 

 published by authority of the registrar-gen- 

 eral. The population of the United Kingdom 

 in the middle of 1904 is estimated at 42,786,- 

 466 persons; that of England and Wales at 

 33,763,434, that of Scotland at 4,627,656 and 

 that of Ireland at 4,395,376. In the United 

 Kingdom 300,358 births and 164,534 deaths 

 ■were registered in the three months ended 

 June 30, 1904. The total increase of pop- 

 ulation was, therefore, 136,424. The number 

 of persons married in the qiiarter ended March 

 31, 1904, was 118,968. The birth-rate in the 

 United Kingdom in the second quarter of 

 1904 was 28.2, and the death-rate 15.4 per 

 1,000. The marriage-rate in the first quarter 

 of 1904 was 11.2 per 1,000. According to the 

 returns issued by the Board of Trade, it ap- 

 pears that 118,830 emigrants embarked, dur- 

 ing last quarter, from the several ports of the 

 United Kingdom at which emigration officers 

 are stationed, for places outside Europe. 

 Distributing proportionally 1,158 emigrants 

 whose nationality was not ascertained, the 

 emigrants that were natives of the United 

 Kingdom numbered 76,294, of whom 47,054 

 were English, 11,648 Scottish and 17,592 Irish, 

 while 42,536 others were of foreign nation- 

 ality. The proportions of emigrants accred- 

 ited to the several parts of the United King- 

 dom, per million of the respective estimated 

 populations, were as follows: England, 1,394; 

 Scotland, 2,517; and Ireland, 4,002. Com- 

 pared with the averages in the three preceding 

 second quarters, the proportion of English 

 emigrants showed an increase of 27.2 per cent., 

 that of Scottish emigrants an increase of 46.3 



per cent., and that of Irish emigrants a de- 

 crease of 1.4 per cent. 



According to the Scottish Geographical 

 Jouriml some interesting notes on the re- 

 searches of Dr. David, a naturalist apparently 

 of Swiss nationality, in the Congo forest and 

 the western flanks of the Euwenzori range, 

 are given in a recent number of Glohus (vol. 

 86, No. 4). The traveler has distinguished 

 himself by being the first European to secure 

 a specimen of the okapi with his own gun, 

 which will permit for the first time an accu- 

 rate knowledge of the physical characters and 

 general bearing of the animal. According to 

 Dr. David, the specimens which have been 

 set up in this country and Belgium have been 

 incorrectly treated, which, all things consid- 

 ered, is not surprising. The okapi, although 

 a ruminant, has all the bearings of a tapir, 

 not at all that of an antelope. The markings 

 are much finer than those of the zebra, the 

 stripes being black within white, and almost 

 all double. The back is reddish, especially in 

 the male, the ears enormously long, the mane 

 erect. Some specimens of both sexes possess 

 horns, while others are entirely without, and 

 Dr. David is on this account inclined to dis- 

 tinguish two species. The animal stands from 

 4 to 5 feet high at the withers. Another find 

 which is interesting from a zoological point 

 of view is that of an armadillo 4 feet long, 

 closely resembling its congener of the pampas. 

 It frequently assumes an erect attitude, sup- 

 porting itself on its tail and holding the tree- 

 trunks with its powerful fore claws. Dr. 

 David has also ascended the western slopes of 

 the Ruwenzori range to a height which he 

 estimates at 16,700 feet, which, if correct, 

 would be the greatest altitude yet attained. 

 His routes seem to have led somewhat to the 

 north of Dr. Stuhlmann's. The range, he 

 says, is composed of a series of ridges of gran- 

 ite, diorite and diabase, no traces of basalt or 

 porphyry being seen. The snow-level occurs at 

 about 14,500 feet, but glacier-tongues reach 

 down to about 13,000. Two small moraine- 

 lakes were seen, and a little below them was a 

 third lake of milky-green color, surrounded 

 by thick vegetation ; while a fourth, which was 

 fed by glacier streams, was clear, though of a 



