

21' S, 



171 



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171 





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171 



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52 



171 



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30± 



171 



10 



244 



171 



3312 fath. 



Bottom temp. 



84'5 



8100 



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34-5 



2956 



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34-5 



2766 



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34-0 



2518 



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34*5 



2(3 SO 



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33-5 



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Ut. -V 2 IS. 171° 38 J' W. 



171 



oil 



20| 



The tirst of the above soundings — nearly 20,000 feet — was ob- 

 tained about 60 miles south west of Sydney Island ; and the last 

 about half way between Fakaafo and Swain's Island. 



Pteropod ooze was found in a number of soundings between 

 the Friendly Islands and the.Feejees, or near 179° W. and 20° to 

 2 1 S., at depths of 300 to 700 fathoms. J. d. d. 



3. Transactions' of the Kansas Academy of Science, 1887-88, 

 vol. xi, 130 pp. Bvo. — This volume contains geological papers as fol- 

 lows: Robert Hay, on the horizon of the Dakota Lignite of Mid- 

 dle Kansas ; E. N. S. Bailey, on the newly-discovered salt beds 

 in Ellsworth Co., Kansas; E. Jameson, Geology of the Leaven- 

 worth Prospect Well; R. Hay, The Triassic Rocks of Kansas; 

 Prof. F. H. Snow, on reported (not actual) Nickel Mines in Logan 

 Co.; E. N. S. Bailey, Composition of Kansas Coals. The beds 

 of rock salt reported on by Mr. Bailey occur at a depth of 730 

 feet in two layers, 50 and 90 feet in thickness, with 5 feet of gray 

 slate intervening. An analysis proves it to contain 95 p. c. of 

 pure salt. A similar bed has been struck at Hutchinson and 

 brines are abundant from many borings. 



4. Loubat Prize of the Academy " Des Inscriptions et Belles- 

 Lettres " of the Institut of France. — This prize is established on 

 a gift to the Academy by Mr. Loubat, of the New York Histori- 

 cal Society. The foundation affords an annual income of 1,000 

 francs for a prize of 3,000 francs, to be given triennially, for the 

 best published work on the history, geography, archaeology, eth- 

 nography, linguistics, numismatics, of North America. The 

 extreme limit of time fixed by the Academy for the matters 

 treated in the works submitted to the council is the date of 1776. 

 The prize will be given first in 1892. Works published in Latin, 

 French, English, Spanish and Italian after July, 1889, will be 

 accepted. Two copies must be sent to the Secretary of the Insti- 

 tute before the 31st of December, 1891. Two other copies must 

 be contributed by the "laureate" to the Academy under whose 

 auspices the work is made a success, one to Columbia College, 

 New York, and one to the Historical Society of the same city. 



5. Essays of an Americanist ; by Daniel G. Brintox. 490 

 pp. Bvo. Philadelphia, 1890. (Porter <fc Coates.) — These essays, 

 based on Archaeological American history have the headings : 

 1. Ethnologic and Arehajologic ; 2. Mythology and Folk lore; 

 3. Graphic Systems and Literature; 4. Linguistic. The discus- 

 sions of the learned author extend to the questions of the origin 

 of language, and the origin of the American people and their 

 mythology. 



Catalogue of Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum. Part III, 

 containing the order Chelonia ; by R. Lydekker. 239 pp. 8vo. London, 1889. 



