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Revue Scientifique an interesting account of his mission to Shoa. 
His description of the country is rose-color, but the ignorance of 
its inhabitants is darkly painted. The King believed that his 
visitor, being an engineer, could make a sword by putting some 
magic powder into the furnace along with the iron, a chief asked 
him for a charm against fire; and the people generally, seeing so 
many things that came from Europe, and not being acquainted with 
tools or processes, believe that all Europeans have a compact 
with the devil, and manufacture articles with their hands alone. 
Evrope.— European News—There are, according to Professor 
Heim, 1155 glaciers in the Alps. Of these, 249 exceed 7500 
referred (1) to the salt-clays which covered them after their emer- 
Sence from the sea; (2) to the ruminants which resorted to the 
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Sommier and G. Cini, in January, 1885, is interesting as the first 
Made across Lapland and Finland in midwinter for purely scien- 
tific purposes. The goal was reached from Mager6o, the north- 
ernmost inhabited point, on foot, with comparative ease. Besides 
the eider and other water fowl, the raven, crow, magpie, Arctic 
ine Laps, Quans, and Northern Finns. Recent soundings 
Relive Siven the following depths for the Swiss lakes: Constance, 
en Uttwyl and Friedrichshafen, 255 meters; Geneva, be- 
yas Rivaz and Saint-Giugolphe, 256 meters; and between 
usanne and Evian, 330 meters; Lucerne, between Gerau and 
en, 214 meters; Brienne, 261 meters; Thun, 217; Zug, 
9; Neuchatel, 1 53; 'Wallenstadt, 151; and Zurich, 143 meters. 
GEOLOGY AND PALAONTOLOGY. 
wa PERMIAN IN NEBRASKA.—The question has been raised 
a. ctherthere isany true Permian formationin America, b t pending 
nal solution I use the term provisionally to designate a group 
: Of strata found along the valley of the Blue river in Gage county, 
