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ington, May 
Wyandotte government, a short study of tribal society. Read before sub-section 
anibropology. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Boston, 1880. 
Mythologic society. Read before Amer, Assoc. Adv. Science, Saratoga, Aug., 
1879. 
The philosophic bearings of Darwinism. Read before the Biol. Soc, of Wash- 
, 1882. 
——The three methods of evolution. . Presid. address before Philos. Soc. of Wash- 
ington, Dec. 3, 1883. 
Albrecht, P.—Sur les elements morphologiques du manubrium du sternum chez les 
mammifères. 
——Erwiderung auf Herrn. Prof. Dr. Hermann v. Meyer’s Aufsatz ‘‘ Der Zwischen 
kiefer knocken und seine Beziehungen zur Hasenscharte und zur schrägen Ge- 
sichtsspalte.” 
i Ueber die Zah] der Zahne bei den Hasenscharten Kieferspalten, 
Ueber die morphologische Bedeutung der Kiefer-Lippen und Gesichtsspalten, 
——Sur les Homodynamies que existent entre la main et le pied des mammiféres, 
All from the author, 
. 
, H. C.—On supposed glaciation in Pennsylvania south of the terminal mo- 
raine, Ext. Amer. Jour. of Science, 1884. From the author. ! 
True, F. W.—Suggestions to the keepers of the U. S. life-saving stations, light- 
houses and light-ships relative to the best means of collecting and preserving 
specimens of whales and porpoises. From the author. 
Richardson, Clifford.—An investigation of the composition of American wheat and 
corn. Dep.of Agriculture. Bulletin No, 4. From the author. 
Wiley, H. W.—The Northern sugar industry during the season of 1883. Dep. of 
Agriculture. Bulletin No. 3. From the author. 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.! 
AMERICA.— The Chilian Andes.—The account sent by Dr. Paul 
Gussfeldt to the Berlin Academy of Sciences, of his recent 
journey -in the Central Chilian Argentine Andes, contains so 
thorough geographical exploration than has yet been accorded to 
it. It appears that the lofty mountain region containing Acon- 
cagua, the loftiest known point in America, consists of a double 
range, separated, not by a wide basin or a well-defined valley, 
but by a trough-like depression, divided by cross ridges. The 
western chain is the true water-parting, and thus the eastern is 
broken through in many places by the water rising in the great 
trough between the two chains. This trough is about 185 miles 
long, is entirely uninhabited, and has a mean elevation of 9800 
feet. The chief valleys of this region are called “cajones,” or 
boxes, because of their straight walls of rock enclosing them. 
These valley sides are formed of boulder slopes and wall-like 
outcropping rock, and each has its separate vegetation-zone, 
limited by perpetual ice. The belts of vegetation, owing to the 
varied local influences, are of very irregular distribution, and for 
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