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pus are abundant, and at least eleven species of lemufine monkeys were 
found. The carnivorous animals discovered numbered eleven species, 
some of which were as large as the jaguar, or larger. They are all 
quite distinct from living genera excepting one genus, which is related 
to the Asiatic civets. Some very small insectivora were also found, one 
of which is not larger than a small shrew. The waters of the lake 
abounded in turtles, crocodiles, and gar-fishes. 
GEOGRAPHY AND EXPLORATION. 
WHEELER’S RECONNAISSANCE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA. — This expe- 
dition spent six months in exploring southern and southwestern Nevada 
in 1869; the results, however, were not published until 1875. The re- 
port contains much new information regarding the Indian tribes and 
southern Mormon settlements. The chief geographical point of interest 
is the erasing of Preuss Lake from the maps, which was in 1872 found 
by Lieútenant Wheeler to be the southern shore of Sevier Lake. 
Arrican TRAVEL. — An expedition to Central Africa up the Congo 
River, under Dr. Giissfeldt, failed to accomplish its object owing to the 
fact that the natives are poor carriers, and were in dread of meeting can- 
nibals in the interior, as well as from the ill-health of Dr. Gussfeldt. 
Valuable collections were made, however. 
HE Paciric Coast or America.—Mr. A. L. Pinart, so well 
known for his researches in Alaska, partly in connection with Dr. W. H. 
Dall, has received a commission from the French government authoriz- 
ing him to study the ethnology and languages of the southern races of 
the west coast of both North and South America. He is at present 
on a visit to the Indian reservations of Maine and Nova Scotia. Re- 
turning thence to San Francisco, he intends to sail for Valparaiso, with 
a view of determining if possible, besides other things, the source and 
direction of migration of the native American tribes of both hemispheres. 
HE HIMALAYAS AND THEIR GLACIERS.—In Drew’s late book, 
The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories, which is highly spoken of by 
Nature, much is said about the glaciers of the Himalayas; glaciers on a 
scale, as he says, not to be met with except in the Arctic regions. A 
glacier which he examined at Basha, in Baltistan, was upwards of twenty 
miles long, and others are to be met with of much greater extent ; indeed 
to judge from the map, this northwest Himalayan region is one huge 
net-work of glaciers. The largest of all is the Baltoro glacier, thirty- 
five miles long, which comes down between two lofty ridges; the north- 
ern ridges rise in one spot to the height of 28,265 feet, the peak of that 
height being the second highest mountain known in the world. And 
yet, adds Nature, these glaciers are a mere remnant, the evidence seems 
to show, of the glacial covering which at one time spread over the Him- 
alayan region. 
NORDENSKIÖLD’S Arctic ExreEDITION intends in part to sail up the 
