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of Siberia. Tlae steamer should winter at 

 some harbor on the southern or southeastern 

 end of Wrangels Land or on the Siberian 

 coast as near as possible to Wrangels Land, 

 so as to make the sledge journeys to the 

 east coast of Wrangels Land. They should 

 not remain in the Arctic more than one 

 winter. 



The report closes with an expression of 

 belief that the Jeanette should be considered 

 safe until news of disaster is received. 



A Scottish scientist has discovered in the 

 course of his investigations that there was 

 an industry pursued in the north of Scot- 

 land that was, in its elements, as ancient as 

 that of the potters of Etruria. In a small 

 district he found that certain pottery — vessels 

 known as kraggans — were still being manu- 

 factured, and an old woman who stated that 

 she had inherited the art from ancestors bur- 

 ied long years ago, made the old-fashioned 

 vessels. They were all perfect, and the sur- 

 rounding peasantry looked upon their maker 

 with considerable reverence. The molding 

 was done with a peculiarly bent stick, and 

 not witd any instrument like the potter's 

 wheel. 



ITEMS FROM THE PERIODICALS. 



The Leavenworth Standard has published 

 several articles describing certain lately dis- 

 covered remains of ancient earthworks near 

 the Fort and is of the opinion that they are 

 on the site of the battle fought between the 

 Spaniards and the Missouris in 1719, describ- 

 ed by Mr. John P. Jones in the last number 

 of the Review. Further investigations are 

 being made by competent and enthusiastic 

 gentlemen, such as Judge Adams of Topeka, 

 Dr. A. J. Brown and Judge Mann of Leaven- 

 worth, the result of whose labors we shall 

 present to our readers as soon as it assumes 

 a reliable form. 



The New York Entomological Club has 

 commenced the publication of an organ with 

 the title Papilio, to be issued on the 15th 

 of every month and devoted solely to the 

 Lepidoptera. $2 00 per annum. 



The llhistiated Cosmos, edited and publish- 

 ed by Everett W. Fish at Chicago is "design- 

 ed to represent the relation of the living 

 church to the great questions developed by 

 modern physics and philosophy." It is a 

 handsome quarto, well illustrated, and issued 

 monthly at the price of I1.50 per annum. 



The Telectroscope is an apparatus intend- 

 ed to transmit to a distance over telegraphic 

 wires pictures taken on the plate of a camera. 

 It was invented by M. Selencq, of Ardres^ 

 in 1877, and has been perfected. A very 

 full description of it is given in the Scientific 

 American Supplement for April 9, 188 1. 



The Atlantic Monthly for May, 1881, pre- 

 sents the following attractive table of con- 

 tents: "Some Personal Recollections of 

 Carlyle, Henry James; Rabbi Ishmael, John 

 Greenleaf Whittier ; The Martrydom of an 

 Empire, E. H. House; The Portrait of a 

 Lady, XXV.-XXVIII, Henry James, Jr.;. 

 Three Sonnets, i. iNativity, 11. Circumstances, 

 III. Providence, J. T. Trowbridge; Study of 

 an Old Southern Borough, Waller H. Page ; 

 Reminiscences of Washington, XII, The 

 Fillmore Administration, 1859-1853; Friends : 

 A Duet, XI. -XII., Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; 

 Eugene Scribe, J. Brander Matthews; Lawn 

 Planting for Winter Effect, Samuel Parsons, 

 Jr.; Demeter's Search, Edith Thomas; Cor- 

 respondence With a British Critic, Richard 

 Grant White; The Head of Medusa, and 

 other novels ; The new edition of Gilchrist's 

 Blake; The Contributor's Club; Books of 

 the month." 



From the many interesting articles in the 

 May Harper, we select as most appropriate 

 and seasonable, those on George Eliot, Thom- 

 as Carlyle and others, Athens and the Greeks 

 of To-day, and MacCook's Camp Lou. 



The Independent Practitioner is a monthly 

 journal, devoted to medical, surgical, ob- 

 stretical, dental, hygienical and popular 

 science, edited by Harvey L. Byrd, A. M., 

 M. D., and Basil M. Wilkerson, D. D. S,, 

 M. D., No. 68 North Charles street. Sub- 

 scription, $3.00 per annum, in advance. 



