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otherwise scientifically investigating the deep sea. The scientific 
staff consists of Prof. Wyville Thompson, Director; Mr. J. J. 
Wild, of Zurich, artist and private secretary ; Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, 
chemist; Mr. H. N. Mosely, Mr. John Murray, and Dr. von 
Willemoes Suhm, of Munich, naturalists. The expedition is ex- 
pected to return in April 1876. They will visit Madeira, Cana- 
ries, Porto Rico, New York, Azores, Cape de Verde, Fernando 
de Noronha, Bahia, Cape of Good Hope, Prince Edward’s Isle, 
Crozets, Kergnelen’s Land, Melbourne, and possibly sail round 
New Zealand, thence round North Australia, follow Wallace’s 
line up to the Philippines, touch New Guinea, Japan, Kamts- 
chatka, Behring’s Straits, Vancouver’s Island to Varparaiso ; 
thence through the Straits of Magellan to Rio, and so home. 
Though no botanist is attached to the staff, it is understood 
that Mr. Mosely will collect plants on every i, occa- 
sion, * 
Tue immediate value of geological surv eys is again shown in the 
prompt detection of the recent diamond fraud. Mr. Clarence King, 
the U. S. Geologist, and his assistant Mr. J. T. Gardiner, visited 
Bishop Mountain and finding diamonds and rubies there that had 
been scattered over the soil by another hand than Nature’s, exposed 
a gigantic and disgraceful swindle. The New York “ Nation” 
makes some timely remarks on the value of the unbiassed opinions 
and observations of a national geologist. Certainly by the expos- 
ure of this fraud, the government survey of the public lands has 
more than paid for all the funds appropriated by Congress, and 
justifies the conclusion that the largest liberality in scientific enter- 
prises is the truest economy—in short, science pays. 
Pror. F.,V. Haypen is desirous of securing by exchange or 
purchase, the publications of our own as well as foreign countries 
on Geology, Paleontology, and Natural History generally, to aid 
in the formation of a library of reference, for the use of the s mond 
of which he has charge. The reports of surveys, with maps, — 
charts, and sections, transactions of societies, or the EEE EA 
of individuals engaged in scientific studies, are muc 
works of reference. Parties who may look favorably upon = 
above proposition can send all packages, through the Smithsonian 
Institution, to the address of Dr. F. V. HAYDEN, U. S. Geologist, 
Washington, D. C. 
