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struction. A list of eligible persons, with accounts of their work, 
etc., might be prepared and placed in the hands of a committee, 
so that those in search of a professor might know from whom to 
select, while a few protests sent to college trustees, on making 
an eminently unfit nomination, might bear some good fruit. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
America. ALasKA.—On his way to Mount St. Elias, Lieu- 
tenant Schwatka’ crossed an unknown river, which, at eight miles 
twenty miles wide was seen by the explorers. It extended fifty 
miles along the base of the St. Elias Alps, and was named the 
Agassiz Glacier. Another to the west was called the Guyot 
Glacier, while a third was named in honor of Professor Tyndall. 
hey then ascended Mount St. Elias to a height of seven thou- 
sand two hundred feet above the snow-line. Glaciers were seen 
rising, sometimes perpendicularly, to heights varying from three 
hundred t three thousand feet, and enormous crevasses were 
frequent. Three peaks, varying from eight thousand to twelve 
thousand feet, were seen, and named Cleveland, Whitney, and 
Nicholls. : 
THE Source oF THE Muississippi1.—The controversy concern- 
ing Lake Glazier has been a long one. Science (August 13) 
prints a letter by Russell Hinman, giving copies of Schoolcraft’s 
map; and those of Nicollet, 1843; the Land Office, 1879; and 
Glazier, 1881. He also gives, in parallel columns, the language 
used by Schoolcraft (1832) and that of Glazier (1881). Nicollet’s 
’ 
Nicollet’s map have nothing to do with the source of the river, 
and that those surveyed, mapped, and named by the Land Office 
were mere lakelets, and not identical with Lake Glazier. 
oy ain Glazier’s claim to discovery seems, however, to be 
‘completely disposed of by the letter of H. D. Harrower in Scvence 
(October 8). Mr. Harrower gives a map reduced from fac-simile 
1 Edited by W. N. LocKINGTON, Philadelphia. 
