650 _ General Notes. 
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6, 1886. From the Societ 
Rothpletz, ee haa ae Monographie der Vilser Alpen. 
gear th agp Ammonites de la zone 4 Aspidoceras Acanthi Mém. | 
é Géologique St. Petersbourg, 1886.—Sur Phistoire de a ‘faune K 
meridiei de la Russe.—Les Ammonites du groupe Olcostephanus versicolor, 
Moscow, 1886. All from the author 
Leche, W. wheres die Sinige thinceyaliniis Galeopithecus. Stockholm, 1886. Fre 
the au 
fleiiprin, A sede ah tl of the West Coast of Florida, 1886, From the author 
Dugès, A.—El Trombidium dubrueilli, nov. sp. From the author. 
Wright, R. R.—On the es eps hoe Organ of Hypophthalmus. 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
General.—It is pointed out by Ed. Heawood, in a re 
number of the Proc. Roy. Geog. Sey that the relations of len 
of the eight principal rivers given ' by General Tillo would 
greatly altered were the general course taken, and the mini 
tortuosities left out. The Nile would Chi astionabiy then 
the longest river (3100 miles), the Yang-tse-Kiang (2750) 
i 
cises for memory than ascertained ob. yet we er pres 
that oe is —) bringing the mountains at least 
i has 
great reduction by or ita Once “roughly” estimat 
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