18386. ] Geology and Paleontology. 1041 
AFrica.— African News.—Lieut. E. Gleerup, a Swede in the ser- 
vice of the Congo Free State, has recently crossed Africa from the 
Congo to Zanzibar. He had been left for nearly a year without _ 
supplies at the remote station at the seventh cataract of the Stan- 
ley falls, and finally left for Europe by the aid of funds furnished 
by Tippoo Sib, the rich Arab trader. The journey to the east 
coast occupied six months. Reports by the late Sir P. Scratch- 
ley, British Special Commissioner to New Guinea, gives a de- 
scription of the characteristics of the natives of different portions 
of the coast of British New Guinea. The littoral seems to be 
well inhabited, except some portions of the north-east coast. Two 
tivers, the Davadava and Hadava were discovered in Milne bay, 
the latter river a large one. Dr. Paulitschke writes, in the 
_ Mittheilungen of the Geographical Society of Vienna, upon the 
two hydrographic problems of the Somali peninsula, that of the 
Upper Webi, and that of the Juba. He believes that we must 
seek the source of the Webi in one of the lakes of Gurage. 
GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
NOTICE oF GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ALONG THE EASTERN 
SHORE`OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN MADE BY ProFfeEssor H. M. SEELY AND 
Prest. Ezra BraInarD.—In this paper is announced the discov- 
ery of quite an extensive new fauna in limestones, apparently of 
the age of the Birdseye limestone of the New Yor series, near 
the mouth of the Otter creek, Lake Champlain, which is of much 
interest owing to the fact that only about fifteen species of fossils 
have hitherto been known from the formation, The new forms 
described in the paper from this one bed are fifteen in number, 
comprising one Brachiopod, six Gasteropods and nine Cephalo- 
One of the Gasteropods has given reasons for the estab- 
lishment of a new genus, Lophospira, with Murchisonia bicincta 
Hall, and M. helicteres Salter, as the types. The bed of limestone 
the form of the Birdseye and Black River than with the Chazy; 
the known species being principally from the Birdseye. Ortho- 
cras bilineatum Hall, Maclurea affinis Billings and M. logant 
Murch., Asaphus canalis Conrad, Bathyurus extans Hall, Harpes 
oltawaensis Billings and /Z/ema crassicauda (Wahl.) Hall. The 
