GEOGRAPHIC MISCELLANEA 



An institution for the study of tropical diseases will shortly he erected 

 in Hamburg by the German government. 



The Japanese government has decided that all children must be vacci- 

 nated before the age of ten months; the first revaccination is to take 

 place at six and the second at twelve years of age. 



Tub Scientific American announces that the ground on the shore of Bot- 

 any bay, New South Wales, where Captain Cook landed 129 years ago, 

 was recently formally opened as the "Captain Cook Reserve." 



Prof. J. B. Hatcher, of Princeton University, has returned from a 

 successful expedition to Patagonia, where he has been making extensive 

 researches in geology and palaeontology during the past eight months. 



" A Fossil Egg from South Dakota," by Dr 0. C. Farrington, vol. I, 

 No. 5, Geological Series, Field Columbian Museum, describes what is be- 

 lieved to be the petrified egg of an Anatine bird of the early Miocene age. 



The Independent states that Lieut. Hjalmar Johansen, Nansen's only 

 companion on his sledge journey, has written a narrative of the fifteen- 

 month trip after leaving the Fram, entitled " With Nansen in the North." 



The American Geologist for August contains two articles of special note: 

 "Glacial History of the New England Islands, Cape Cod, and Long 

 Island," by Warren Upham, and "The Evolution of Climates," by Mars- 

 den Manson. 



The expedition equipped by the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases 

 for the study of malaria in Sierra Leone sailed recently from the Mersey. 

 Freetown will be the center of experiments with special regard to Major 

 Ross's theory that malaria is propagated by mosquitoes. 



A cablegram from Valparaiso, Chile, early in August described a tidal 

 wave of unusual violence at that place. It is quite possible that the 

 wave arrived at Valparaiso from Mauna Loa, in which case it would also 

 be felt at some other points on the Pacific coast, as far north as Alaska. 



Mount Dawson, a peak of the Selkirks hitherto unclimbed, has been 

 ascended by Professor Charles E. Fay, of Tufts College, and H. C. Parker, 

 of Columbia University, members of the Appalachian Club. Mt Dawson 

 is the highest of the Selkirks thus far ascended, being about 10,000 feet 

 above sea level. 



Suture states that the magnetic observatory at Vienna has had to be 

 discontinued in consequence of the electric tramways and electric light 

 wires. The Austrian government is now considering plans for a new ob- 

 servatory, to be situated at some distance from Vienna and to be provided 

 with instruments of the latest construction. 



It is stated on the authority of a Finnish official that the Czar's desire 

 t.i connect the Finnish and Russian railways and at the same time effect 

 economy necessitates the abandonment of the project for a railway con- 

 uecting with Sweden and Norway, which was approved by the Finnish 



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