1152 General Notes. [ November, 
and make meteorological observations. Lieut. Schwatka is 
making a thorough exploration of the courses of the Chilkat, 
Lewis and Yukon. In the /evestia M. Karzin, an official of the 
Verkhoyansk district, struck with the terrible fate of De Long, 
publishes a list of all settlements and places where human beings 
can be met with at different seasons on the coast of Northeast 
Siberia. The Indian population of British North America is, by 
a recently issued report, estimated at about 110,000. It is supposed 
that the total native population of America, north of the United 
States, is about 146,coo, of which some 25,000 are Innuit and 
Aleuts. The planting of Pinus pinaster in the Landes of 
wide, and stated by M. E. Blanc to come from a submerged se 
tinuation of the Landes, are now entirely wooded over, Some 0 — 
these dunes reach a height of 250 feet. South of the dunes® 
old forest of cork-oaks and resin pines. 
barked at Naples on July 25th, in the Italian man-of-war 
ington, to resume his deep-sea and thalassographic ee 
in the Mediterranean. On account of the frequent d | 
Europeans on the International Society’s establishment 
‘Congo, a succession of new appointments have poe 
These include two Swedish gentlemen, MM. Westmar ad M. 
vallson, and two English geographers, Sir F. Goldsmid 4 
'E. Delmar Morgan. 
GEOLOGY AND PALAIONTOLOGY. 
our Eocene formations. The specimen representi 
lacks the head and pectoral fins. There are no t pecs 
br, and there are well developed basilar interne 2 
al 
zmals. : ries, 20" ( 
Crassupholis, gen. nov.—Scales numerous, 1n obia posterior 
in contact ; formed of a small grooved disk and er coor 
of verte 
inter 
spines. Dorsal and anal fins short, posterior ; the 
