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sons familiar with the anatomy of the Batrachia and Reptilia. 
——Professor T. S. Hunt has recently published an account of 
the mineral products of the Hocking valley, Ohio. Mr. J. W. 
Hulke, in the London Geological Society Journal for August, 
1880, describes in detail the new /euwanodon prestvichti from the 
Kimmeridge clay from near Oxford, England. He shows that in 
this genus, the second row of tarsal bones is articulated with the 
metatarsals, as in birds. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.! ‘; 
VoyaGEs in BEenRING STRAIT IN 1880.—The U. S. revenue ° 
of life were visible. 
he Corwin reached Point Barrow on August 25th. “On the 
1ith of September,” Captain Hooper’s report continues, “we saw 
the high hills of Wrangell Land, bearing west one-quarter east 
(true). We ran in toward it until we came to the solid pack, the 
ice having the same general appearance as that we had previously 
encountered in the vicinity of Herald Island, except in being cov- 
ered with newly fallen snow, and being, consequently, white. We 
judged the land to be about twenty-five miles away. The highest 
hills, which seemed to be more distant, were covered with snow; - 
others were partly covered, and still lower ones were almost en- 
tirely bare. The sight of this land repaid us to a certain extent 
for our disappointment in not finding Herald Island clear of ice 
as we had hoped to do in order that we might run lines of sound- ° 
ings and make a plan of the island. That part,of Wrangell Land — 
Which we saw covered an arc of the horizon of about 50°—from 
N.W. 4 N.to W. Y% S. (true)—and was distant from twenty-five 
miles on the former, bearing to thirty-five or forty miles on the 
latter. On the south were three mountains, probably 3000 feet 
high, entirely covered with snow, the central one. presenting a 
conical appearance, and the others showing rounded tops. To the 
northward of these mountains was a chain of rounded hills, those 
near the sea being lower and nearly free from snow, while the 
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