General Notes. 
Vaillant, L^on M. — Note Complementaire sur I'antomie de VAnai 
des lugubris Hallowell. — Remarques sur le genre Ripistes de- 
Dujardin. Extraits du Bulletin de la Societe Philomatique de 
Paris, 1885— 1886. 
Vanfieet, fF.— Some Native Birds for Little Folks. From the pub- 
lishers. 
Von Klein, Carl ^.—Address on Rhinology. Reprint from the 
Journal of the American Medical Association. From the author 
Ward, Lester i^.— Our Better Halves. Reprint from The Forum, 
Vol. VI. From the author. 
Civil Service Reform. Reprint from The Historical American, 
July, 1888, Vol. I. No. I.— What Shall the Public Schools Teach ? 
Reprint from The Forum. Both from the author. 
Weithofer K. v4«/.— Einige Bemerkungen uber Carpus der Pro- 
boscidier. From the author. 
Woodward, A. Smith. — A Comparison of the Cretaceous Fish-fauna 
of Mount Lebanon with that of the English Chalk. Ext. from 
the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. On the Genus 
Synechodus.— Note on the Occurrence of a Species of Onycho- 
dus in the Lower Old Red Sandstone Passage Beds of Sudbury, 
Herefordshire. Extracts from the Geological Magazine. From 
the author. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL* 
Africa, The Western Sahara. — As Spain has recently an- 
nexed the African coast between Morocco and Cape Blanco, with 
an indefinite extension inland, the geography and ethnography of 
these regions is naturally prominent in Spanish geographical papers. 
Sres. Coello, Cervera, Quiroga, and Costa have recently explored this 
region, especially that part known as the Adrar Temar which is a raised 
oasis or meseta containing an area equal to a sixth of that of Spain. 
The mesa terminates in a point towards the south and is crossed 
here and there by ranges of hills, which have a slighter slope in its 
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