654 _ General Notes. [Ju 
Peking, he has made his way quietly among people with wh 
the plains of Turkestan, near Kiria. From Kuchar the Tarim : 
was followed to Lake Lob. From thence the intention was to go. 
over the Altyn-tagh, but nothing has since been heard from him, 
_ Mancuuria.—Since their journey to the Peishan Mountain — 
and the sources of the Sangari, Messrs. James, Younghusband, 
and Fulford have visited some other parts of Manchuria. C l 
nists were perpetually arriving in Northern Manchuria, but brig- 
andage is rife, and for the most part goes on unpunished, as the 
Manchu semi-military administration is most effete. The count 
is very fertile, and only needs good government and. security 
- life and property. l 
GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
by the professor of geology in Denison University. In a mot 
complete form this paper appears in the laboratory bulletin of 
on McFarlane’s description of these contacts, Wadsworth says 
(“ Azoic System,” p. 346), “His observations show clearly thi 
both formations here are eruptive and of the same geological age 
ontact between the great dyke of “dense basaltic green- 
stone, having the peculiar dolerytic glitter” ( a typical coars 
diabase), and the series of (here hornblendic) schists which are 
at places greatly contorted by the influence of the granite ane 
the diabases. The schists can everywhere be easily distinguls 
m the penetrating dykes, which lie in strike or dip. They 
prevailingly chloritic, containing large quantities of calcite. / 
_ mor ar i s are beds of schist-conglomera 
which are regarded by the writers as true basement conglo 
ates. he pebbles are sometimes very large, and consist © 
