412 
MISCELLANEA 
cents per pound for the voyage from Melbourne to London in cold storage. 
The butter shipments to London from this single colony last year were 
close on to 26,000,000 pounds, valued at $5,406,215. 
Wkst Austhaua. Intelligence has been received of the arrival at Fitz- 
roy river, in the northern part of West Australia, on November 6, of tlie 
ex])edition which left Adelaide in INIay last for the e.xploration of the in- 
terior of southern and western Australia. Two members of the party 
are missing and the survivors suffered great hardships and had to abandon 
their effects and scientific collection. 
POLAR RlXiIOXS 
Antarctic. July 15, 1897, is the day fixed for the starting of the Bel- 
gian Antarctic expedition. The voyage is expected to be completed 
within two years, but a three-years’ supply of provisions will be taken. 
Tlie steamer. The Bdgica, will go first to the east of Grahams Land in 
George IV sea, and tlien winter in Australia. The second year will be 
devoted to Victoria Land. The steamer will be well equipped for scien- 
tific investigations as to marine specimens and submarine deposits. 
MISCELLANEA 
Tlie resources and attractions of the fur west could hardly be more in- 
terestingly and at the same time more fairly set forth than is done in 21ie 
Corn Belt, an illustrated monthly publication of the Chicago, Burlington 
and (Quincy Railroad. 
The heated term from July 28 to August 17 last is stated by Prof. H. A. 
Hazen in the Moufhlg Weathei- Beriew for August to have covered a larger 
region and given abnormal heat on a greater number of consecutive days 
than ever before recorded. 
Always full of good things, thoroughly up to tlate, and for the most 
part admirably illustrated. Knowledge, jinblished monthly in London, de- 
serves to be better known in the United States than is indicated by its 
somewhat rare appearance in our libraries and newsrooms. 
Boldin del LndiHdo Geologico de Mexico, number 3, by Dr Carlos Sapper, 
is devoted to the geology and physical geography of Yucatan. It in- 
cludes chaptei*s on the agricultural and mineral production of the penin- 
sula, and a valuable siqiplement containing meteorological tables and the 
elevation of 363 principal points in the province described. 
Four hundred Illinois teachers attended the course of lectures on 
Physical Geograjihy recentl}' delivered at the University of Chicago by 
Professor Albert Perry Brigham, of Colgate University. The lectures 
were practically limited to the illustrative study of land forms, but the 
audience was led from definitions and elementary principles to the rela- 
tion of jihysical geography to history and to industrial development in a 
manner that must have proved as delightful as it was instructive. 
i 
