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hardness, etc. , while the descriptive terms connote forms ; yet the classifi- 

 cation is in accord with latest phase of earth science, in that it is primarily 

 genetic, only secondarily structural. Proceeding on this basis, the author 

 naturally adopts as his thesis the postulate that "the forms of any coastal 

 belt may be grouped in the appropriate stages of a cycle" (page 155) — 

 i. c, he passes easily from the dynamic to the sequential. The features 

 discussed are adequately illustrated, chiefly by maps. W J M. 



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The exports of gold from the ports of South Africa at present average 

 about 12,000,000 each week. 



On account of the withdrawal by the government of its annual subsidy 

 the Jamaica Weather Service has been discontinued. 



The Budget Committee of the Reichstag lias voted the first installment 

 of $47,600 for the German Antarctic expedition of 3 902. 



In the Monthly Weather Review for March is an article by the editor, Prof. 

 Cleveland Abbe, outlining the history of meteorology in Russia. 



A recent Independent (June 8) contains a history of " The Alaskan Boun- 

 dary," by Marcus Baker, secretary of the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. 

 For the first time in the history of the Weather Bureau, forecasts for 

 forty-eight hours in advance, for all states east of the Rocky mountains, 

 were regularly issued from Washington each night during April, 1899. 



Reports from Odessa and southern Russia represent the winter grain 

 crop of that region as almost destroyed by drought. As the spring grain 

 crop is likewise seriously threatened, it is feared that the crop may not 

 exceed that of 1897. 



Reports from Vancouver, B. C, announce the ascent for the first time 

 of Mt Morrison, the highest mountain in Formosa, by Stoepel, the ex- 

 plorer of the Pic of Orizaba in Mexico. It is stated that Mt Morrison is 

 inhabited by a wild tribe of cannibals, evidently of Malayan origin and 

 distinct from any known race. 



The next meeting of the International Meteorological Committee will 

 be held at St Petersburg August 25. Willis L. Moore, Chief of the Weather 

 Bureau, is the representative of the United States. Among other mem- 

 bers of the committee are E. Mascart, France ; R. H. Scott, Great Britain ; 

 W. V. Bezold, Germany, and M. Rykatcheff, Russia. 



The Nation states that Mr Charles F. Lummis is about to print in his 

 Land '</' Sunshine (Los Angeles, Cal.) an accurate translation of the Vice- 

 roy Pcvilla (Mgrdo's report on California, the clearest and closest sum- 

 mary of Pacific Coast affairs and explorations from San Bias to Nutka, 

 17t;7-I79:-], that we possess. It has not been printed heretofore in English. 



The Union Pacific Company has invited three hundred prominent 

 geologists to join in a free excursion of sixty days to study the recent 

 fossil finds in the Wyoming wonderland. The professors of the various 



