984 General Notes. [October, 
covered the sources of the Lualaba, Luapula and Chambese, the 
head waters of the Congo. 
Asia.—Asiatic News.—Col. Prejevalsky has discovered three 
peaks, each over 20,000 feet high, in the middle range of the 
Kuen-lun. The plateau skirting the middle Kuen-lun has an 
average height of 4000 feet. Dr. Gottsche, who has recently 
returned to Europe after a journey of over 2000 miles in Korea, 
believes that the population is much underrated. He has visited 
all the eight provinces and eighty-four out of the 350 districts, 
and has, through influential support which he received, been 
enabled to collect much statistical information which is wholly 
new. He states that the official census only takes into account 
the adults, and that therefore its nine millions must be increased 
to over twelve. The geology of Korea seems to be that of the 
bordering Manchuria. He found few traces of that early devel- 
opment of art and science which made Korea the instructress of 
Japan. The labors of Dr. A. Griinwedel and Dr. R. Virchow 
with Bengalese and other intruders, and have a yellow complex- 
ion. Dr. Virchow is careful to point out that none of these hill 
tribes lend any support to the theory of an aboriginal Negrito 
population formerly spread over the whole of India and Indo- 
China. —— Iturup and Kunashiri, the most southern of the 
Kuriles, are also the largest. Iturup, according to a recent num- — 
ber of the Japan Gazette, is 113 miles long and seventy-seven 1n 
greatest width; Kunashiri is sixty-two miles by seventeen. All 
the Kuriles are very desolate, and only sparsely occupied in sum- 
mer by Japanese and Ainos, who come to fish. In Iturup there 
is an impassable jungle of bamboo grass between the coast and 
the mountains. Professor Milne thinks it not unlikely that the 
-Iturup bear, which seems to resemble the grizzly, may be new to 
- science. Information has been received at the Hague from 
Java that the state of Krakatoa was causing some anxiety. Sub- 
terranean sounds have been heard, and the rocks which emerged 
__ from the sea during the last eruption suddenly disappeared at the 
ov end Of April, ~ 
_ AmERica.— American News.—Asaph Hall writes to Science to 
contradict the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Appleton’s American 
syclopzedia and Johnson’s Cyclopzdia with regard to the height 
and in Connecticut. Against the statement of the Ency. 
. that Connecticut has no land “ above a thousand feet in ele- 
