128 CORRESPONDENCE. 
GEOLOGY. 
DISCOVERY OF A HUGE WHALE IN NORTH CAROLINA. — Professor Kerr 
has discovered recently in North Carolina the remains of a huge whale 
some eighty feet in length, which I have recently studied. It is near 
Balena, and very different from anything hitherto found. It has an ex- 
traordinary development of the supercilia. The ear bone is preserved. 
I have named it Mesoteras Kerrianus. — E. D. COPE. 
HE GEOLOGY OF BraziL.— Professor C. F. Hartt of Cornell Uni- 
iude who has for several years been studying the geology of the coast 
region of Brazil, and has published two papers on the subject in the NAT- 
ALIST, Vol. i, and a general résumé of his explorations in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings of the American Geographical Society," and has an extensive 
work on the subject nearly printed, entitled **'The dob and urea 
Geography of the Coast Provinces of Brazil,” proposes to make a 
trip to Brazil next summer. He will take with him several students E 
Cornell University, and the expedition will be one that in its results will, 
we doubt not, do credit to that institution which has already done s 
much in UN full courses of scientiflc studies into college curricu- 
lums. The geology and natural history of Brazil have been iine studied 
out by da Cen professors from America and Europe. Professor Hartt 
proposes to or apts the Amazonian drift, and doubts Mrd ing been 
thrown on Professor Agassiz's theory of a great Amuzonian glacier by 
several eminent SE we trust that this vexed question will he fully 
settled. 
PROFESSOR WARD’Ss MusEUM. — It will be gratifying to many of o 
readers to learn that the late fire has not proved an unconquerable oe 
stacle to the indomitable energy of Professor Ward. Our own Museum 
has lately been augmented by the addition of a small collection of his 
he will continue to furnish casts and collections to colleges and institu- 
tions as freely as before the fire. Professor Ward also informed us that 
he was upon the point of departing again for Europe. where he expects 
to renew and add to his collections, both of actual fossils and of casts. 
His museum was fully insured, and as this has been paid, the losses can 
be, in a great measure, repaired, especially among the moulds, only one- 
third of the whole of these having been destroyed. — EDITORS. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
S. L. W., New York. aac Nos. 1 and 3, Leptogium tremelloides ; No. 2, Pannaria 
microphylla; No. * Endoc iniat m two specimens, one of which is E. glaucum 
Ach., but only a variety ; [o 5 por 6, Cetraria lacunosa; No.7, Urceolaria TEET 
No. 8, desee dii. The Usnea Sei a number is Usnea rubiginosa MX., & 
variety of U. barbata. —J. L. R. 
