Jttne 17, 1887.] 



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has carried out the programme of his journey, 

 though he found the summit of the Namuli Hills 

 inaccessible, and in addition traversed the whole 

 region a second time, striking into the interior 

 from Kwilimane, and emerging at Ibo on the 

 Mozambique coast (Proc. Boy. geogr. soc, June). 



America. 



Under the auspices of the Italian geographical 

 society, Count Ermanno Stradelli from Piacenza, 

 who has travelled for many years on the Amazon 

 and its tributaries, is going to explore the head 

 waters of the Orinoco, which were visited in the 

 beginning of this year by Cliaflfanjon (Boll. Soc. 

 geogr. Ital., May). 



Prof. Dr. R. A. Philippi writes to Petermann's 

 Mittheilungen that the Chilian government has 

 sent out two expeditions to survey the boundary 

 between Chili and the Argentine Republic from 

 Rio Palena to the pass of Villarica. It appears 

 that the Cordillera is situated in Chilian territory, 

 while the watershed between the Atlantic and 

 Pacific oceans, which forms the boundary, lies 

 east of the mountains, about 1,600 feet high. 

 One of the expeditions will cross the Ranco pass 

 east of Valdivia, and return by the pass of Vil- 

 larica. The time allowed to the expedition is 

 from two to two and a half months. 



of animal industry, of which Dr. D. E. Salmon is 

 chief, and are being slaughtered. It is the hope 

 of Dr. Salmon to eradicate the disease from the 

 county. 



HEALTH MATTERS. 



Yellow-fever at Key West. — The existence 

 of yellow-fever at Key West is officially recog- 

 nized and declared epidemic by its board of health. 

 In a proclamation issued by that body, it is stated 

 that an effort is being made to conceal cases, and 

 to resist the health officers. The board announces 

 that a bulletin will each day at noon give the 

 status of the epidemic, naming new cases, deaths, 

 and recoveries. Reports are reqviired from every 

 householder of any sickness which may occur in 

 his family. Unaccli mated persons are required to 

 remove from the infected district, and are advised 

 to leave the island. Proprietors of saloons are 

 especially called upon to refuse drinks to those 

 inclined to abuse the use of the same, since such 

 persons taken with fever are nearly hopeless cases, 

 and their deaths add to the mortality list, and 

 tend to increase mortality among others. 



Pleuro-pneumonia in Westchester. — There 

 has been an extensive outbreak of contagious 

 pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle near Golden's 

 Bridge, Westchester county, N.Y. In one of the 

 affected herds there are two hundred and sixty 

 head of cattle. In addition to this, several 

 smaller herds are affected. The cattle have been 

 appraised under the direction of the U. S. bureau 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



An Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie will 

 shortly appear in Berlin. The editor-in-chief is to 

 be Prof. Ludwig Stein of Zurich. 



— The Athenaeum announces that the well- 

 known Swedish botanist. Prof. Johan Edvard 

 Areschoug, died at Stockholm on the 7th of May. 

 He was born in 1811, and worked under Agardh 

 and Fries at Lund. He was made reader in 

 botany at that university in 1839, and in 1858 was 

 appointed to succeed Elias Fries as professor of 

 botany at the University of Upsala. Among his 

 numerous publications, those best known are his 

 ' Symbolae algarum florae Scandinaviae,' his 

 ' Iconographia phyctologia,' and his ' Phyceae 

 marinae.' Areschoug retired from his chair in 

 1876. On the same day the Swedish statistical 

 writer. Dr. Fredrik Theodor Berg, died in Stock- 

 holm, in his eighty-first year. 



— Messrs. John Wiley & Sons, New York, have 

 issued an admirable catalogue of their publica- 

 tions, which cover every department of the 

 mathematical sciences and of engineering. 



— The second number in the series of mono- 

 graphs on political economy and public law, edited 

 by Prof. Edmund J. James, and published by 

 the University of Pennsylvania, will shortly ap- 

 pear. It treats of the anti-rent riots in New 

 York, 1839-46, an important but hitherto almost 

 entirely neglected chapter in American economic 

 history. The author, Mr. E. P. Cheyney, in- 

 structor of history in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, finds the source of the difficulties, which 

 in many respects resemble the present Irish land- 

 troubles, in the peculiar land tenures of early 

 New York. A vivid description is given of the 

 rise and progress of the riots, and a full ac- 

 count of the numerous and important changes in 

 the constitution and laws of the state, which 

 followed as a result of this movement. 



— On Friday, May 13, the Hon. Ion Grant 

 Neville Keith-Falconer died at Aden, and with 

 him one of England's most promising scholars 

 passed away. Mr. Keith-Falconer was born in 

 1856, and graduated at Trinity college, Cam- 

 bridge, in 1878, attaining high honors in Semitic 

 languages. After a period of study in Germany 

 and the east, he became Hebrew lecturer at Clare 

 college ; and on the resignation of Professor 

 Robertson Smith in June, 1886, he was appointed 



