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plorations during 1898-99. A detailed account of tlie geographic results of the 

 exi)edition was given b\' Mr Welhnan in the National Geographic IMacjazink 

 for December. The same number of McClare'fi contains an article by Cleveland 

 Moffett, "The Inside of the Earth," giving Professor Milne's observations and 

 conclusions as to the interior of our jdanet. 



"The Bubonic Plague" is the title of a report recently submitted to the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury by Walter AVyman, Surgeon-General Marine Hos])ital 

 Service, and issued by the department in pamphlet form. This valuable l)ro- 

 chure is a revision of a i)ai)er prepared by \)y Wyman and published in the 

 annual report for 1897. The many facts that have become known within the 

 past few years with regard to the epidemic have been incorporated into the re- 

 vision, with the result that the bulletin embodies in available form the latest 

 information which may be of value to quarantine officers, health oHicers, and 

 all interested in the study of the disease. 



Kki'outs from the three field parties of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 at work on the south coast of Puerto Rico state that satisfactory progress is 

 being made, and that triangulation, topography, and signal-building are going 

 on sinuiltaneousl}'. Signals are located to within a few miles of Guanica, and 

 the topography is finished to Guayanilla Bay. A large lagoon, to which little 

 attention has heretofore been given, though a i)rominent feature on the coast, 

 has been surveyed near Point Cuchara. The entire country west of Ponce and 

 as far as Cabo llojo is covered with a thick growth of brush and trees, which 

 requires lines to be cut at every station, thus considerably retarding tiie work. 



Tnn following is the present condition of railway construction in the Chinese 

 Empire : Lines constructed, 365 miles ; lines in process of construction, 2,615 

 miles; lines for which concessions have been granted, 4,125 miles. Of this 

 total of 7,105 miles constructed, in process of construction, and conceded, 495 

 miles are under German control, 810 miles under American, 1,380 miles under 

 English, 805 miles under Belgian, 670 miles under Chinese, 490 miles under 

 French, 690 miles under Anglo-German, 1,765 miles under Russo-Chinesc. To 

 this total of 7,105 miles must be added 1,970 miles of railroad proi)o.sed and 

 2,885 miles of railroad for which surveys have been made but no concessions 

 granted. 



The following report is interesting as the latest rumor concerning Andree: 

 "A letter received in London from Bishop Newnham, dated October 1, Fort 

 Churchill, Hudson Bay, says: 'Two Eskimo came here this summer, traveling 

 from the far north, to tell that two white men had comedown from the sky in 

 a balloon, the remains of which they had seen, and had been murdered by 

 some Eskimo tlfere. I believe this is authentic, but have not had time to in- 

 quire. Sad, if this be the last of poor Andree and his companion.' " The fact 

 that a letter from Bishop Newnham dated September 8, 1899, has been received 

 in Toronto, wherein no mention is made of the supposed murder of Andree, 

 discredits this latest report from London. 



A very instructive article on the geograi)hy of Abyssinia and the manners 

 and customs of its inhabitants is the main feature of the Geographicdl Journal. 

 for February. The author, Herbert Weld Bluudell, in March, 1898, accom- 



