62 General Notes. [January, 
Formosa from Tamsui to Faiwamfu. Bullock, Trip into the in- 
terior of Formosa. Nares, On the Navigation of Smith’s Sound, 
as a Route to the Polar Sea. Carpenter, Lecture on the Tem- 
perature of the Deep Sea Bottom and the Conditions by which it 
is determined. Trotter, The Pundit’s Journey from Leh to Lhasa 
. No. V— 
Anniversary Meeting, May 28th, by Sir R. Alcock. No. VI.— 
Crowther, Notes on the River Niger. Hutchinson, Progress of 
the Victoria Nyanza Expedition of the Church Missionary Society. 
Wallace, Lecture on the Comparative Antiquity of Continents as 
indicated by the Distribution of Living and Extinct Animals. 
Markham, The Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 (with a map). 
Simson, Notes of Journeys in the Interior of South America. 
Smith, The Translation and Transliteration of Chinese Geographi- 
cal Names. Marsh, Description of a Journey Overland to India, 
via Meshed, Herat, Candahar, and the Bolan Pass, 1872. Kirk, 
Visit to the Mungao District, near Cape Delgado. Cottam, Over- 
land Route to China, via Assam, &c., across the Irrawaddi into 
unan. 
Among recent geographical works are the following: S. W. 
Silver & Co.'s Handbook to the Transvaal; British South Africa, 
Its Natural Features, Industries, Population and Gold Fields, 1877. 
South Africa; Its Difficulties and Present State, suggested by a 
recent visit to that country. By A. R. Campbell Johnson, 1877. 
South Africa; Past and Present. By John Noble. Loango und 
die Loankuste.. Von Dr. Pechuel-Losche. Leipzic, 1876. (Lon- 
don, Triibner & Co.) 
MICROSCOPY:? 
New CABINET FoR SLIDEs.—Two slide cabinets have recently 
been described in Science Gossip which possess some advantages 
‘for certain purposes, and have the no small recommendation that 
they can be easily and cheaply made. 
Mr. T. H. Moorhead’s cabinet is in the book form, and is made 
of card-boards mounted in slate frames. Common school slates 
are selected, of suitable size and with perfect frames. The frames 
_ at intervals of an inch and a quarter, so that each slide will be sepa- _ 
rately held. Stout canvas can be tacked to the edge of each frame. 
and the whole bound together, in volumes of about five each, bya — 
1 This department is edited by Dr. R. H. Ward, Troy, N. Y. 
