264 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE. 
(FROM ‘‘L’EXPLORATION.’’) 
Sitting of July 18th.—M. A. Grandidier in the chair. Meeting opened at 
eight o’clock. After reading of the official minutes, the president signaled the 
attendance of M. Pinard, the young explorer from Arizona, who will return to. 
his explorations as soon as the state of his vision, considerably weakened, will 
permit—also the presence of Dr. F. M. Moreno, director of the Anthropological 
and Archeological Museum, at Buenos Ayres. This learned South American, 
continued the veswme of his explorations, in the as yet scarcely known country 
of Patagonia, as follows: In 1873 I made my first voyage to Patagonia, in order 
to dig into the Indian burying grounds along the Rio Negro. After two months 
of excursions, I returned with forty-two skulls and some hundreds of stone imple- 
ments. In 1874, I returned to the Rio Negro. My excavations gave me eighty 
crania, some incomplete skeletons and three hundred stone objects. From the 
Rio Negro, I passed to the Rio Santa Cruz; in order to ascend it, but some ob- 
stacles preventing me, I was only able to make some ethnological collections, in 
the environs of the sea.—In 1875, I left overland, from Buenos Ayres, for the 
purpose of passing over Patagonia until I reached Chilii—Arriving at the Rio. 
Colorado, I continued my anthropological researches, and at the Rio Negro, for 
the third time, I was able to augment my collection of skulls. Leaving this place, 
with a domestic and five Indians, I followed the banks of the river and arrived on 
the slope of the Andes. There the Araucaniens or Manpuches impeded the con- 
tinuance of my voyage. Condemned by a council of war, I obtained permission 
to visit lake Nahuel-Napi. After some weeks of hunting, of religious feasts and. 
orgies, I was given leave to return to Buenos Ayres, where I arrived after having 
had a battle with some Indian cattle thieves. I left immediately for the northern 
part of the Argentine Republic, with the object of excavating the ancient forts. 
and cities of the Colchuguis. In October, I left for the fourth time, for the pur- 
pose of traversing Patagonia. After making some collections at Chuburt and 
Port-Désiré, I commenced the exploration of the Rio Santa Cruz. There, with 
my canoe, I penetrated as far as the lake from which it takes its origin. I could 
see two other lakes to the north, alive with Indians, also a volcano in activity,. 
which I baptized with the name of Fitz-Roy. I reached afterward, by land, the 
strait of Magellan and returned to Buenos Ayres. On my return, I donated all 
my collections, anthropological, zodlogical and paleontological, to the government 
which has established the museum of which I am the conservator. To augment 
this collection, I left in October, 1879, for a voyage of two years in Patagonia. 
After ascending the Rio Negro, in my little steamer, 400 kilometers, I directed 
myself to the South, on horse-back, to the distance of 100 kilometers, thence to: 
the west-south west, traversing a region as yet unexplored. In the place of plains. 
and table-lands, I saw mountains from 1000 to 2000 meters in height. Here I 
discovered some ancient volcanoes, and some basaltic grottoes, which had served: 
