140 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Our party has been distributed as follows: Mr. Bischoff, with a good 
outfit, was left at see in Aug. last, and will remain all winter and next 
spring. Mr. Bannister remains at St. Michaels, Norton Sound, where he 
will be joined in ace early spring by Messrs. Kennicott and Rothr 
now absent in mand of exploring parties, and by Mr. Elliott, and 
probably by Mr. Bischoff, later in the season us concentrating, 
the natural history operations | on the lower Youkon around Norton Sound 
are likely to prove successful.” 
3. On Negro Instruments ; by - a = rene report of the pro- 
ceedings of the British ‘Asanihtion p, in a pape by Mr. J. Crawfurd, 
*On the Physical and Mental Characterpiien ‘of ‘the African Negro,’ it 
is stated that “The Negro, also, had never rack ingenuity enough to 
invent acttety, symboli olic or phonetic.” I beg leave to hand youa igh 
of the ‘* Elliembie,” or African telegraph, an Lacicost whic 
in existence for time immemorial to the oldest inhabitant in the Cote 
roons country, on the west coast of Africa. By the sounds produced on 
striking this instrument, the natives carry on sama rc with great ra- 
pidity, and at several miles distance. I have one of the instruments now 
in i ich I br i 
instrument is in aniversal eyes about the Cameroons, and up in the 
interior, in the Abo an i countries, a part of central Africa not yet 
visited by Europeans. In visiting this part of Africa in 1859, my coming 
was generally shite sie beforehand to the different villages by the 
“ Elliembic.” I questioned some of the oldest inhabitants as to the in- 
ventor; but none of Hes could tell me further than that they su upposed- 
“ it must have been some of their great-grandfathers.” This “ Elliembie,” 
therefore (which is a most ingenious invention), must have been in exist- 
ence in aah before telegraphs were dreamt of in England.— Atheneum, 
Oct. 14th, 1 
4. Malia cav Gene Mnaidva bone-cave, which Dr. Adams discov- 
ered i in 1863, on the southwest coast of Malta, and which he named after 
the Pheenician mines close by, is to be further agg a the Geological 
Section having voted 30/, for the purpose. In 1864, Dr. Adams worked 
at it divers ——, enti! the peu crag wasp sap a rant enabling him 
of colossal dimensions, It has been named Cygnus Falconerit, after the 
ety ys paleontologist, the late Dr, Falconer, Dr. Adains will con- 
e his researches during the winter months.—Reader, Oct. 28th, 1865. 
re Chicago Observatory.—Mr. T. H, Safford, formerly assistant at the 
observatory of Harvard college, has been appointed Director of the ob- 
eyoests 5 Chicago. cS 
6. on International Horticultural Exhibition.—Prof, Alphonse de ie 
Candolle a of Geneva has accepted the Presidency of the Botanical Con- 
