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tending by examination and survey the coast line on the east up 
to latitude 82° 91’ north, and by observation somewhat farther 
prolonging the west coast to the northward and passing with the 
Polaris under steam the high latitude of 82° 16’ north — a point 
far beyond the limits of all previous navigation toward the pole— 
errors in the shore line of the west coast as laid down by Dr. 
Hayes, and also errors in the shore line of Greenland as laid down 
by Dr. Kane, were observed and corrected. 
Mr. Clement R. Markham writes to “Nature” that from the 
results gleaned from the story of the boat’s crew of the Polaris, 
there are renewed and strong arguments for the fitting out of an 
English arctic expedition, which has been urged for a year or two 
past. 
The government has dispatched two vessels in search of the 
Polaris, with a good prospect of finding her and saving the val- 
uable journals and specimens aboard. 
Pror. C. A. Ware of Iowa State University and State Geolo- 
gist of Iowa, has been appointed Professor of Geology and Nat- 
ural History at Bowdoin College. This is a new chair, and its 
establishment shows that the interest in science that has always 
characterized this college is on the increase. The Cleaveland 
Cabinet of Natural History at Bowdoin College was dedicate 
July 10. The museum, formerly Massachusetts Hall, has a very 
handsome interior. The address was delivered by Hon. Nehemiah ` 
Cleaveland, and remarks were made by other gentlemen present. 
Tue bryological books and exceedingly rich and important 
collections and preparations of mosses left by the late W. S. 
Sullivant are to be consigned to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard 
University, with a view to their preservation and long-continued 
usefulness. The remainder of his botanical library, his choice 
microscopes, and other collections are bequeathed to the State 
Scientific and Agricultural College, just established at Columbus, 
and to the Starling Medical College, founded by his uncle, and of 
Which he was himself the senior trustee. 
Tur Topeka Scientific Institute is the title of a society eae 
peka, Kansas, two years old, devoted to general science. It closed 
for the season on April 18, having sustained a free course of pop- 
ular scientific lectures during the winter. 
