1880. } Recent Literature. 43 
feet, would indicate a change in the relative level of the sea, 
amounting to perhaps between five and ten feet in a century.” 
Boulder clays are abundantly developed, containing numerous 
shells characteristic of the Leda clays of the coast of Labrador. 
It appears that the white whale still exists in considerable num- 
bers all along the coast, while “ the walrus is killed by the Esqui- 
maux, principally about the entrance to Hudson’s straits and 
around the Belcher islands. In former years this animal is 
reported to have been seen occasionally as far south as Little 
Whale river. On the opposite side of Hudson’s bay walruses 
are said to have been seen near Cape Henrietta Maria. The nar- 
wahl is occasionally killed by the Esquimaux in the northern 
part of Hudson’s bay. In the spring, soon after the shore ice 
disappears, the polar bear occasionally comes ashore on Long 
Island and the smaller islands between it and Great Whale river. 
In the winter they have been known to range as far south as the 
head of James’ bay.” The climate of the west coast of Hudson’s 
bay in the Nelsen river region is milder than that of the opposite 
coast, and that of the region about the Norway House is fully as 
good as that of the Province of Manitoba. The subsoil in places 
is frozen through the summer, ete it is possible that toward York 
Factory it is permanently froze 
e volume closes with auet by Messrs. L. W. Bailey and 
R. W. Ells on the Pre-silurian and Cambrian rocks of Southern 
New Brunswick, and on the superficial geology of New Bruns- 
wick, by Mr. G. F. Matthew; on the geology of Cape Breton, by 
H. Fletcher, with others on economical geology. 
Morse’s SneELL Mounps or Japan.i—Not only has Japan an 
university very fully manned with American, English and Ger- 
man instructors, but her desire to make it a genuine university, by 
contributing to the advancement of science, is made evident by 
the publication of a volume giving the results of researches car- 
ried on by the professors and students. The first contribution i. 
to the new science of anthropology by a people which has but 
recently thrown off the habits of a semi-civilized race and adopted 
the modes and sciences of those which call themselves civilized. 
This memoir is timely in its issue, for'with a tolerable acquaint- 
ance with prehistoric archæology in Europe, America and parts of 
Asia, such as we now possess, comparative studies on the prehis- 
toric remains ofa people so old as the Japanese, and with such an. __ 
interesting geographical position, would pre highly suggestive 
very considerable value. And here it may be observed, 
parenthetically, that it is claimed by the author, “that there is no 
other country in the world where so great a number of gentlemen 
1 Memoirs of the Sci ience pk eld vori of Tokio, Japan. Vol. 1, PI. 1. 
Shell Mounds of Omori. By EDWARD S. MORSE, Professor of Zodlogy, tiair rsity 
of Tokio, Japan. Published by "ae Saet “Tokio, a 2539 (1879) 8vo, 
Pp: 36, with 18 plate 
