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state ; in Kansas Professor Erasmus Haworth has been giving 
particular attention to the artesian conditions in the vicinity of 
the Meade Count}’- flowing wells, and in the Ohio valley Mr 
Frank Leverett has been continuing his study of water supply 
in connection with the examination of the glaciated area. About 
twenty-five short papers are now in preparation relating to the 
w'ater suj)ply in various parts of the United States or to the util- 
ization of this in irrigation or for power or domestic purposes. 
F. H. N. 
MISCELLANEA 
The September number of the United States Consular Reports, to which 
admirable publication of the Department of State The National Geo- 
GKAPHic Magazine is frequently indebted, contains valuable geographic 
articles on the Kongo Free State, Hangchow, and the Production of 
Coffee in Mexico. 
The library of the National Geographic Society has again been enriched 
through the munificence of the Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, president of 
the Society, who has presented to it an unbroken set of Nouvelles Annales 
des Voyages from its commencement in 1819 to 1865, inclusive. These 
184 volumes cover the world’s explorations for nearly half a century and 
constitute the most valuable geographic serial extant. 
The various subsidies granted by Congress for special fast mail service 
are of advantage to the public not merely in the acceleration of the mails, 
but also in the increased facilities the different railroad companies are 
enabled to offer in the transportation of passengei-s. Especially is this 
the case with the Southern railway, the subsidized mail trains of which 
8\'stem, running 100 miles or more without a stop, now reach the prin- 
cipal ijoints in the South in several hours’ less time than has ever before 
been ]>racticable. 
It is proposed to erect in London a terrestrial globe having a diameter 
of 84 feet and showing the earth’s surface on a scale of about eight miles 
to the inch. Every geographical feature of importance will be shown 
and named. The United States, from east to west, will measure about 30 
feet, and India, from east to west, about 23 feet, while London, drawn 
to scale, will cover a space rather larger than that of a silver half-dollar. 
Rarely has a project called forth a more remarkable manifestation of in- 
terest and approval than this has evoked. Among the 350 men eminent 
in art, science, and literature who have given it their hearty support are 
Markham, Stanley, Geikie, Lockyer, Bryce, Lecky, Wallace, Flower, 
Crookes, Keltie, and many others equally well known on both sides of 
the Atlantic. The project should prove of the greatest educational value 
and it cannot be too highly commended. 
