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by Alpheus Hyatt. 
64 General Notes. [Jan. 
himself, who was struck with three arrows, which his companion 
(Lieutenant Tappenbeck) cut out with a razor. The land journey 
was then abandoned, and the river descended in boats to the Congo. 
The German accounts of this expedition call attention to the fact 
that in many of the names of tribes, etc., those mentioned by the 
Portuguese missionaries may be recognized; also to the similarity 
between the names of tribes in this region and those of others 
dwelling on the Cunene or Zambezi (z.¢., Adima, Pende, Bayeye, 
Balula, Basaka, Bangola). This points either to similarity of lan- 
guage, or to an extensive migration of tribes. 
ArFrican Notes.—Mr. H. H. Johnston made a journey up the 
Cameroons River in June last. A few miles beyond the village 
of Ngale Nyamsi, he obtained, from a height of five hundred feet 
above the river, a view of a chain of fantastically peaked moun- 
tains lying fifty to sixty miles from the river and probably ten 
thousand feet or more in height. . 
M. J. de Brazza, brother of the governor of the French Congo, 
reached the Sekoli (the Punga of Grenfell) by an overland journey 
from the Ogowé through a fertile and well-populated region, the 
abode of the Mbete and Ossete tribes. On the Sekoli dwell the 
Ikata, a commercial but warlike people. The river was descended 
in canoes to where it receives the Amboli and. assumes larger 
proportions. 
fallen a prey to the Tukaleurs. M. Davoust placed all the tribes 
on the left bank under French protectorate. Those on the right 
a river known as the Lomami which falls into the Sunkuru from 
rtheast, but does not believe it identical with the river of 
that name which flows into the Congo just below Stanley Falls, 
which he himself ascended as far as 1° 33’ S. lat. in January, 
1885; and which at that point was a stream of thirty-five thou- 
sand feet per second, at an altitude of thirteen hundred and fifty 
A GEOLOGY AND PAL ONTOLOGY. 
Hyatt on Primitive Forms of Cephalopods.'—The succes- 
sion of forms in any genetic series of Nautiloids is from a straight 
through a curved cyrtoceran form to a loose-coiled gyroce- 
i before the National Academy of Science, Boston meeting, 
