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in Tertiary rocks in Australia, an announcement which of course 
created much surprise, since it had previously been an article of 
geological faith that belemnites were exclusively mesozoic fossils. 
Prof. McCoy now suggests that the fossil taken for a belemnite 
present decade, or some other very similar fossil. Another 
notable Victorian fossil noticed here for the first time is an eared 
seal of Pleistocene age, to which the name of Arctocephalus wil- 
famst is given—Academy. ` . 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
GEOGRAPHICAL Notes.—The Geographical Magazine contains 
a map showing the Himalayan explorations of Mullah, one of the 
explorers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Dr. 
Kirchhoff, President of the Halle Geographical Society, has discov- 
ered, in the library of the University, a copy (apparently) of part of the 
original log book of Captain Cook, during his voyagein1772. The 
book was bequeathed to the library referred to by John Reinhold 
Foster, Cook’s companion, who died in Halle. Lieut. Wyse 
at last accounts was exploring the Isthmus of San Blas, the nar- 
rowest point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 
Deloncle of Lyons, concludes from documents in his hands, that (1) 
Lake Tanganyika was not known tobe in existence at the time of the 
