422 GEOGRAPHIC MISCELLANEA 



Charles Patrick Daly, LL. D., for 35 years president of the American 

 Geographical Society of New York City and former chief justice of the 

 court of common pleas of New York, died at his home, in Sag Harbor, 

 Long Island, September 19, 1899. While preeminently a lawyer and a 

 jurist, his long connection with the society of which he was the president 

 and his honorary membership in the National Geographic Society, the 

 Royal Geographical Society of London, the Berlin Geographical Society, 

 and the Imperial Geographical Society of Russia will make his death 

 especially felt in geographic circles. 



The Geographical Journal for September opens with the first of a series 

 of articles by Dr Francisco P. Moreno on his " Explorations in Patagonia " 

 at different times between 1873 and 1897. Capt. G. E. Smith, R. E., con- 

 tributes a description of "Road-making and Surveying in British East 

 Africa." Robert T. Turley describes a " Tour in ' No Man's Land,' Man- 

 churia." Other articles of interest are " The Cambridge Anthropological 

 Expedition to Torres Straits and Sarawak," "From Njemps to Marich, 

 Save, and Mumia's (British East Africa)," by Major H. H. Austin, R. E., 

 and " Dr Passarge's Journeys in South Africa." 



An interesting feature of the "Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic 

 Ocean" for September is a diagram prepared, from investigations made 

 by Prof. George Davidson, of the University of California, showing the 

 line separating the lands of the Pacific where American date is kept from 

 those where Asiatic date is kept. The line passes through Bering straits, 

 skirts the Aleutian islands on the west extremity, and then follows the 

 180th meridian southward as far as the Fiji islands, where it diverges 

 slightly to the east. Thus the Aleutian, Hawaiian, and Samoan islands 

 keep American time, while the Marshall and Fiji islands and New Zealand 

 follow Asiatic time, or are one day ahead. 



A recent number of Science states that the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History at New York City has now 23 representatives in the field, 

 engaged as follows : " The Jesup expedition to the North Pacific, making 

 archaeological and ethnological researches in British Columbia and north- 

 eastern Siberia; the Jesup zoological expedition to the United States of 

 Colombia ; the Constable expedition to the Northwest for large mammals ; 

 an expedition to New Mexico to study the cliff dwellings and the Pueblos ; 

 an expedition for the study of North American Indians in California and 

 Arizona; a paleontological exjoedition to Wyoming; an expedition to 

 Peru and Bolivia under Dr Bandelier, and local archaeological work." 



An anchor and a buoy marked "Andree Polar Expedition " are reported 

 to have been found by a Norwegian cutter on the north coast of King 

 Charles islands, east of Spitzbergen. Neither the Wellman nor the Peary 

 parties in their explorations of the past year discovered any trace of the 

 missing aeronaut; also the steamer Antarctic, which left Helsingborg, 

 Sweden, May 25, with an expedition under Prof. A. G. Northorst to look 

 for Andree along the northeast coast of Greenland, on her return in Sep- 

 tember reported a fruitless search. The report received at the beginning 

 of this year that the bodies of Andree and his two companions had been 

 found on the coast of Siberia has not been confirmed by later advices. 



