498 General Notes. [ August, 
Proceedings of the society, with an. introductory essay on the geography 
and ethnography of the country, together with accurate map 
S. 
In the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, April, 1876, ` 
there is a review.of Thompson’s Marco Polo’s Six Kingdoms or Cities 
in Java Minor identified in Translations from the Ancient Malay Annals. 
The Museum of Ethnology at Leipzig, founded upon the magnificent 
collections of Dr. Klemm, of Dresden, has published its third annual 
report, containing the reports of the treasurer and of the trustees, and a 
list of the members and of the additions during the year. - 
Friederich von Hellevald, who has just succeeded Dr. Peschel as 
editor of Das Ausland, is engaged in compiling a geography on the 
principles adopted by Elysée Reclus in his Géographie Universelle. 
The work, which is to appear in fitty numbers, is entitled Die Erde 
und ihre Völker, and is to be published at Stuttgard, by W. Spemann 
& Co. 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science will meet 
at Buffalo, August 23d; a subsection of anthropology will then be 
formed. Immediately afterwards, September 4th, the International Con- 
vention of Archeologists will meet in Philadelphia, where the finest 
display of American ‘antiquities ever brought together is on exhibition 
in connection with the Centennial. The British Association will meet 
at Glasgow, September 6th. The International Congress of Anthro- 
pology and Prehistoric Archeology will meet at Buda-Pesth, 4th to 
lith of September. The French Association will meet at Clermont- 
Ferrand, August 19th. The annual meeting of the German Anthropo 
logical Society will be held in Jena from the 9th to the 11th of August. 
— O. T. Mason. 
GEOLOGY AND PALMONTOLOGY. 
ExrLorations br Wauenrr’s Surver.— In Mr. Gilbert's repo" 
we find an interesting chapter on the Colorado Plateau, which lies be 
tween the Rocky Mountain system and the Basin Range sy dari er 
east and west, and stretches northward to the Uintahs. The ~~ 
of its structure, he says, the thoroughness of its drainage, which m 
permits detritus to accumulate in its valleys, its barrenness, and T 
wonderful natural sections exposed in its cañons, conspire to paa f 
indeed “ the paradise of the geologist.” Mr. Gilbert’s studies suppleme? 
those of Newberry, Marcou, and Powell. This mountain system ™ a 
bles the Appalachian in the absence of any great central axis, and ag ther 
general tendency to uniformity throughout, but differs widely in ote 
respects. “In the Appalachians corrugation has been produced 
monly by folding, exceptionally by faulting; in the Basin Ra 
monly by faulting, exceptionally by flexure.” He believes 
palachians the primary phenomena of mountain-building are SUP% i 
and fhat in the Basin Ranges they are deep-seated, the su 
that in the Ap 
perficial being : 
