280 General Notes. (March, 
New Guinea has never been penetrated to any considerable dis- 
tance, except along the course of rivers. Lieut. Armit only went 
twenty-five to thirty miles inland. The death of M. de Braza 
has been reported, but the report is now ascertained to be untrue 
The Revue de Geographie states that harmony reigns between 
this explorer and the International Association——M. de lè 
Croix stated before the Geographical Society of Paris thathe 
distinctly heard the detonations of the eruption of Krakatoa 
though he was then at Lahat, 746 miles distant. M. Brau de St 
Pol Lias informed the same society that Tolok-Betoung is now no 
more a seaport, since a barrier of pumice, nineteen miles in length, 
two-thirds ofa mile in width, and from thirteen to sixteen feet 
deep, has, since the eruption, formed a floating jetty in front of the 
entrance of theharbor. The official number of the victims of 
the explosion is 15,000. The Bolivian government has vd 
atched an expedition against the Tobas (the murderers of Dr 
Crevaux). M. Thouar accompanies it, and intends to survey 
Pilcomayo river, and to verify the existence of its reported he 
the Guayra. . Milne-Edwards has asserted ie rie 
Geographical Society of Paris that the bathymetrical map i | 
Atlantic ocean, published under German authority, 158 5 the 
fiction. In one place where the map marks 3000 fatho) we 
Talisman expedition found 6000; and in another where the 
descended 30c0 fathoms, the map showed 1000 on 
Chinese, most of whom are outlaws, but become -T 
the soil when on Russian territory, and many Corea 
' GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
Tue HISTORY OF THE OREODONTIDE.— reot 
graphs, containing a synoptic view of the histo meeting of 
tidæ, is taken from a paper recently read before a we 
American Philosophical Society : eodont®" 
From what is now known of the history of me are S 
the following conclusions may be drawn. | : 
cially instructive as far as they go, since they ! tinction 
e rise, great development, decadence and ex " 
