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On the Loess and associated deposits of Des Moines. By W. J. McGee and R. 
Ellsworth Call. Read before the lowa Academy of Sciences, May 31,1882, From 
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Gardening for young and old. The cultivation of garden vegetables in the farm 
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e same— 
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_ The American Palzeozoic Fossils. A catalogue of the genera and species and an 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.' 
Arrica.—Mr. Stanley has published a full report of the address 
he recently gave in Paris. From this we learn that he left his station 
at Vivi, below the Yellala falls, for a journey into the interior 
which occupied three years, and yielded splendid results. After 
unching his steamer above the cataracts of the Congo, he pro- 
ceeded upwards to its great southern tributary, the Kwango, which 
he ascended for a considerable distance, establishing five stations. 
At one hundred miles from the mouth of the Kwango, two large 
“hinges ye with grayish-white water, coming from south by east, 
