1880.] _ Geography and Travels. 821 
GroLocicat News.—Mr. S. A. Miller, of Cincinnati, is pub- 
lishing an important series of historical monographs of North 
American geology. He has concluded the Palzeozoic and Meso-. 
zoic portions, and is preparing that of the Tertiaries. toM: 
E. Wadsworth, of Cambridge, has recently issued in the Bulletin 
of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, a series of full notes on 
the iron and copper districts of Lake Superior. He gives many 
graphic sections of vein contacts, explains the stratigraphy and 
reviews the literature. Prof. Owen has recently described a 
Cope in 1878. . J. W. Spencer, in the Canadian Naturalist, 
Vol. vit, describes a number of new Graptolites from the Niagara 
formation. Four of them are referred to three new genera, 
Calyptograpsus, Rhizograpsus and Acanthograpsus. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.' 
heard the same account of the sinking of one of 
Franklin’s expedition at a point near O'Reilly's island (N. lat. 63 
30’, W. ] ong. 95°) in the spring of 1849 as was related to Capt. 
Hall. On May 31st, after visiting Montreal island, they met the 
| Edited by ELLIS H. YARNALL, Philadelphia. 
*See NATURALIST for August, 1878, p. 571, and November, 179, p. 723. 
