4 1876.] Geography and Exploration. 561 
of the survey, contains reports on the country west of lakes Manitoba and 
Winnipegosis, with notes on the geology of Lake Winnepeg, by Mr. 
Robert Bell; a report on the country between the Upper Assineboine 
River and lakes Winnipegosis and Manitoba, by Mr. J. W. Spencer; a 
report of much general interest on explorations in British Columbia, by 
Mr. James Richardson ; and a report on geological observations in New 
Brunswick in 1874, by Prof. L. W. Bailey and Mr. G. F. Matthew. 
Other reports of economic interest follow. The staff of the director con- 
sists of ten geological explorers, and the total annual appropriation for 
this important survey is only $45,000, “a sum not greater than is 
granted for similar purposes by many single States in the neighboring 
Union.” 
` Tae WALRUS FORMERLY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. — In a collection of 
fossil bones from the Ashley phosphate beds near Charleston, S. C., Dr. 
Leidy identifies a complete tusk of the walrus, indicating a still farther 
point south for the extension of this animal than had been previously 
known, Virginia (at least Martha’s Vineyard) having been, we believe, 
the farthest point southward where it had previously been found. As- 
, sociated with this tusk were the skull of a manatee, a tooth of the Mega- 
, therium, and the bones of a number of new species of-cetaceans, among 
thema huge tooth of a form allied to the sperm whale, and probably the 
“ame as those from the Crag formation of Antwerp, ascribed to Dino- 
-  nphius. 
More Fossıt Brrps. — The bones of two species of a bird like the 
diver, and also with affinities to Professor Marsh’s cretaceous genus 
Hesperornis, have been discovered by Professor Seeley in the chalk 
formation of England. 
GEOGRAPHY AND EXPLORATION. 
i News rrom Sraniry. — This enterprising explorer, after a long 
silence, during which much anxiety had been felt about him, writes from 
the district of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. The letters received and 
Published in the New York Herald, are five in number, and contain a 
narrative of Stanley’s voyages, land journeys, and adventures from June, 
1875, when he was last heard from, to April 26, 1876, when he was 
Within fifteen days’ march of Ujiji. The first, written July 29, 1875, 
Stves an account of his voyage from M’tesa’s capital to his camp at the 
Southern end of Victoria Lake, near the Shimeeyu River. He not only 
“countered violent and dangerous storms, but he and his party nar- 
oy escaped massacre at the hands of the savage natives of Bumbireh, 
‘large island on the western side of the lake. The second letter, written 
seventeen days later, describes his return, with his whole party, to, 
Sanda (M’tesa’s kingdom), and the punishment inflicted on the savages 
*f Bumbireh by the way. An interval of five months elapsed before his 
third letter was written. During this period, by the friendly aid of 
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