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vennes, the mountains of Scotland, ete., which are now remark- 
able for the amount of rain, show that increase in humidity is not 
the only cause needed to bring on a Glacial era; it is necessary 
also for such countries that there should have been a general 
lowering of the temperature of Europe. 
movement have already been described in this Journal (xix, 425), 
The same observers in the following year (Sept., 1880) made a 
second series of similar measurements, using essentially the same 
methods as before. It will be remembered that their first obser- 
vations seemed to prove a considerable and unexpected degree of 
irregularity in the movement. It was found, for example, that the 
result since, for some unknown reason, the motions measured were 
taken to eliminate the errors, and finally give tables showing the 
results of their measurements during two or three days out of 
ch the 
e probable error, rf : 
allow of satisfactory discussion, but that they, notwithstanding, 
indicate real ice movements, and are not to be referred to irreg- 
ularities in the position of the observing telescope.— Wied. Ann., 
1881, 
3. On Soilcap-Motion ; by R. W. Coprincer, Esq., M. D.— 
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I wish to call attention briefly to a phenomenon which, so far as [ 
erns, and mosses, but also a “ moraine profonde” of rocks, stones, 
Stems of dead trees, peat and mud, whereby the hills of this region 
ae denuded, and the valleys, lakes and channels, gradually 
up. 
