876 General Notes. [ September, 
drography of the Orinoco, not only obtained materials for a 
These he has carefully copied. arty commanded by 
Feilberg, and sent out by the Argentine Confederation to ex- 
plore the Pilcomayo, found that a trade route via that river to 
Bolivia is not feasible. Below the rapids, sixty leagues above 
the mouth, the Pilcomayo receives an affluent not marked on 
any chart, but with as much water as the Pilcomayo or per- 
haps even more. It was obstructed by sunken trees. The coun- 
try along these rivers is rich with fine pasturage. From Dr. 
Bell’s report of the geological work of the Hudson Bay expedi- 
tion, it appears that the highest land of the Labrador peninsula 
is everywhere close to the coast, with a gradual slope westward to 
the basins of the Koksoak and the rivers emptying into Hudson 
The formation throughout Northern Labrador and the 
Strait is gneiss, mostly Huronian, but some of it Laurentian. 
Punta Arenas, the Chilian settlement in Magellan strait, is a town 
of 4000 inhabitants, SAR by splendid lands with abundant 
pastures, forests and waters. A hill aisea ri town from the 
cold winds. The wishes is said to be ex 
GEOGRAPHICAL News.—The fifth and eile: issues of Peter- 
_mann’s Mittheilungen for this year contain an account of Caffra- 
ria and the eastern districts of Cape Colony, by H. C. Schunke, 
with a map (in No. 5) upon a scale of 1: 750,000. No 5 contains 
aiso some remarks upon the health-relations of the region of the 
Upper Amu Darja, by A. Regel; and an account of the German 
Geographical Gierens held at Hamburg on April ọ to 11, 1885. 
On this occasion Doctors Steiner and Claus gave an account of 
their journey sae a Xingu, and Dr. Boas a sketch of the 
Eskimo of Baffin’ No. 6 contains a map of the Panama 
canal on a scale of pa 120,000; an account of the German settle- 
ments on the Slave coast, by P. Langhans, and a history of ten 
journeys in Costa Rica, undertaken by the now expelled bishop, 
Dr. pe The coast line o the German epee on the 
GEOLOGY AND PAL AONTOLOGY. 
Tae RELATIONS oF THE PaLzozorc Insects —At the aoe 
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