NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



EXPLORATION. 



Hatcher's Narrative of the Princeton Patagonia Expedite 



— In a quarto of twelve chapters, 1 illustrated by fifty large heliotj 

 plates and a map, Mr. Hatcher gives an account of three expeditic 

 to Patagonia after fossil vertebrates, adding at the end a chapter 

 the geography of the region. 



This is by far the best description of travel in Patagonia that 1: 

 been written. Mr. Hatcher's observations are keen and accura 

 while his judgment is expressed in a fair manner, based on no 

 made during a period of three years experience, in which tunc th 

 have been corrected and verified. The matter is of such absorbi 

 interest that one's attention is held throughout. Here we see t 

 trained naturalist at work, and grain some idea of the hardships a 



little known land of Patagonia. I he neiiotypes m ^ 



that another method of reproduction might have h 

 advantage. 



In the chapter entitled - Geography " the author tre 

 physical divisions of the surface, describes the rivers, 

 origin of the numerous lakes by pointing out their re 

 present inland waters of the channels, and reasons out 

 in? manner the changes through winch this part of 



ed from the earliest times. The differ* 



tlu-ir habits and mode 



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