876 General Notes. | [October, 
Meyer, O.—Observation on the Tertiary and Grand Gulf of Mississippi. Ext. Am. 
Jour, Science, July, 1886. 
Meyer, sag ae Aldrich, T. H.—The Poe fauna of Newton and Wautubbee, 
Mis t. Cincin. Soc. Nat Hist., 1886. 
Rencvier, » £. L kappor sur la Marche de Musée Géologique Vaudois en 1885. From 
the author 
Dobson, G. E. —Note o on the mandibular dentition of the shrews. Ext. Jour. Anat. 
and Phys., Vol. x 
Frazer, POIS S notes on the geology of York county, Pa., 1886. 
The application of composite Phioiograpby to hand-writing and especially to 
signatures. 1886. Both from the author 
Beyer, H. G.—A study of the structure of PPS ( Glottidia} pyramidata Stim, 
(Dall). From the author 
Gill, T: TAn account of the:. progress of geology in the year 1885. From the 
author. 
wee A ee tes on the fresh-water sponges of Nova Scotia. 1886, From 
the 
aa x G. piegi ~~ ag, aaa map of my Cypress hills, Wood 
mountain and adjacent co A. R, C, Selw 
naraek M-L. Tii of ia pc of the scales in the embryo of the 
nd m 
<a pane of the muscle in the embryo of the chick and man. Both 
Rep. Proc. Soc. Amer. Micros., 1885. Both from the author. 
soem C. 7. = ete of a new species of Aplodontia (A. mayor). Ext, 
n. N. Y. Acad. Sci 
iin of a Wair- born lynx. Both from the author. 
eee J- B.—Annotated catalogue of the published giog of C. A. White. 
1605, 
OF a h 
ve 
GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS." 
Asia.—The Aralo-Caspian basin—M. Moushketoff believes that 
the Amu-daria may once have joined the Sir-daria before ente na 
the basin of the Aral and Sary-kamysh lakes ; but later on ets 
Amu entered the Sary-kamysh or western part of the cee’ 
lake, while the Sir-daria flowed into the Aral part. Gradu 3 
the Amu , as appears by the orography of the region, undermin x 
the Sultan-uiz-dagh hills, and finally, finding its way throug 
them, entered the Aral. The Sa -kamysh, deprived of its "a A 
rapidly dried up. The bed of this lake is fifty feet below tha 
the pian, and covers a surface of 4400 square miles. a 
Aral is now also rapidly receding. The Albughir gulf has 
e 
lake as is 
appeared, the Sary-chega gulf is converted into a 
the Kamyshlybash, which the Kirghis remember to have 
been connected with the evaporation at As 
k 
ee W. N. Lockincton, Philadelphia. 
