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wE I E ace tae me 
714. General Notes. [August, 
Smith, S. 1—The abyssal more Crustacea of the Albatross’ dredgings in the 
North Atlantic. Ext. Ann and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1886. 
Whateaves, J. £ 
anadian Peri Cetacea, fishes and marine 
Invertebrata, 1886. Fro a tha uthor 
Bailey, F. H. a mary phenomenal aaa 1886. From the a 
Merrill, G. P.—On deposits of volcanic dust and sand in S. W. Nebras 
oo ee y. ciui presidential address to Entomological Society, Wola 
—— The mildews of the grape vine, an effectual remedy for Peronospora, 1886. Both 
uthor 
X from the a 
TAR H. G— Insects oe the orange. U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
1885. From the 
Goode, G. B. iesp a of exhibit of fisheries and fish-culture of U.S. 
A., made at the London Fisheries Exhibition, 1883. 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.’ 
ASIA AND THE IsLANDS.— The Hill country of Assam. —Mr. 
“Needham’s excursion in the Abor hills from Sadiya, on the 
Upper Assam, brought that officer into close communication with 
the savage Abors, whom he credits with being truthful and cour- 
ageous. The village of Membo is on a site well pe for 
defensive purposes. It is well supplied with pure water, yet 
Le thirds of the inhabitants have goitre. The houses are built on 
ae terraces hundreds of feet above each other. They are all massive 
buildings, rae to eighty feet long by twenty wide, and have å 
large sheltered veranda in front. The boards of the fronts are 
often three or four feet wide, and the roof is thatched with a 
split stems of a thorny plant. There are no partitions meen e 
privacy is not needed by a people whose women wear only 
very short petticoat. Goitre was not noticed at other Abor villages. 
Mr, Carles upon Korea.—The May issue of the Proc. 38A 
Geol. Soc. contains Mr. W. R. Carles’ account of his recent m 
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_ withstanding the seclusion in which the people have liv iginal 
os ome tht eine the Caucasian, entered into its or 
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