1889.] Geography and Travel. 
the advantage in truthfulness, si 
the various countries upon the 
with a concave instead of a convex curvature. 
Out of the total population of 46,855,704 of the German 
Empire on Dec. i, 1885, 22,933,664 were males and 
23,922,040 females. As regards religion 29,369,847 were 
returned as evangelicals, 16,785,73433 Catholics, 563,172 as 
Israelites, and 125,673 as of other Christian creeds. 
The population of Bulgaria and Roumelia on January i^ 
1^888 was found to be 3,154,375, including the Russians, 
Servians, Germans, French, etc., sojourning in the country. 
The Bulgarian race includes 2,336,250 individuals. The 
Turks in the two countries number 904,000, with a curious 
predominance of the feminine sex, which counts 607,000. 
The same preponderance of females is observable in the Greeks, 
who number 56,000 females against 28,000 males. Among 
the Bulgarians and other races the male sex is in excess. 
Soundings recently taken from the English ship Rambler 
in the Chushan archipelago near the Chinese coast, have 
proved the existence of submarine rocks which rise to a metre 
or even half a metre of the surface. These lie between 
30^-3'-25" and 30^-21' N. lat, and 122^-12' and i22*-25'25' 
E. longitude. 
British New Guinea is divided into three sections, a 
western, from the Dutch boundary to the river Aixd, a central 
extending from the Aixd to the island of London in about 
144''- 1 5' E. long, and an eastern which includes all the Lyon- 
isiades to Rossel. A recent report of Sir John Douglas gives 
an account of all recent explorations. 
In his account of his ascent of Mount Kibo (Kilimanjaro) 
Otto E. Ehlers states that the tracks of an elephant were vis- 
ible in the snow at a height of 5 ,000 metres together with tracks 
of bufifaloes and antelopes. The last traces of vegetation 
were also found at the same elevation, {PetertnannsMitteilungen, 
ni. 1889). 
Asia.—The Present Flora of Krakatoa.— M. Treub, 
who arrived at Krakatoa, June 19, 1886, gathered near the 
