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yOliTir AMERICAN NOTES 
December iJ.— Hon. C. B. Beach, ]\I. C., Dr J. L. M. Curry, Hon. C. E, 
Foss, ^I. C., Dr E. 31. Gallandet, Baron Beno von Herman (German Em- 
bassy), W. J. 3Iartin, 3Iaximilien de 3Ieck (Secretary, Russian Legation), 
Pak Yong Kin (Chai'ge d’Affaires Korean Legation), Sefior Don Edmundo 
J. Plaza (Mexican Legation), Dr J. L. Reeves, Rev. Prof. Rene de Saussure, 
Alexander de Somoft’ (Charge d’Affaires Russian Legation). 
The following delegates from The N.\tiox.\l Geogr.m’hic Society at- 
tended the Sixth International Geographical Congress, held in London in 
July last: General A. W. Greely, Assistant Secretary of State Rockhill, 
Miss E. R. Scidmore, 3Iiss Aileen Bell, 3Iiss Lilian Hayden, Lieut. Com- 
mander W. S. Cowles, IT. S. N., Lient. Everett Hayden, U. S. N., Cyrus 
C. Adams, and W. C. Whittemore. 
NORTH AMERICAN NOTES 
The convention between the United States and Great Britain to.provide 
the requisite topographical data to determine the lioundary between 
Alaska and British Columbia expired by limitation December 31. An- 
other commission will determine the location of the line. 
Gkeenland. The National Geographic Society welcomes back one of 
its members, Engineer R. E. Peary, U. S. Navy, from his perilous and 
terrible journey across Greenland. If he failed to surpass his own record 
of 18i)2 he paralleled it, thus emphasizing a success far beyond that of any 
other explorer of the inland ice. Ethnologists look contidently for impor- 
tant data relative to the Etah Eskimo, and American universities have 
profited largely by the natural history collections. 
Rhode Island. According to the state census of 1895 the population 
of the state is 384,758, as against 304,284 in 1885 and 345,506 by the fed- 
eral enumeration of 1890. Cities over 20,000 are as follows: Providence, 
145,472; Pawtucket, 32,577; Woonsocket, 24,468; Newport, 21,537, and 
AV'arwick, 21,168. The drift of migration is from agricultural districts to 
manufacturing centers. 
Florida. Palm Beach, the terminus of the Florida East Coast Railway, 
has been created a port of entry in connection with a line of steamers, 
which leaving in the afternoon reach Nassau the next morning, thus open- 
ing a new route, important both to commerce and tourists. 
Block Island. A land-locked liarbor, 1,600 acres in area, has been con- 
structed in the interior of Block island at a cost of §100,000. The channel 
to the Atlantic is 12 feet deep at low water and 300 feet Avide, with a break- 
water extending 600 feet into the sea. It is proposed to doulde the depth 
and width of the channel. 
