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browse upon the plants hidden beneath is questioned by Captain 
Markham, as the snow is several feet deep, and as all vegetation 
withers at the end of summer. At the head of Schubert Bay 
the author captured a few butterflies. The author saw none of 
these inserts on any day save August 4th, and he thinks that 
their life in the mature condition must be probably less than a 
week. 
Commodore Jansen, of the Dutch navy, suggests the esta- 
blishment of meteorological stations along the coasts of Lapland 
and Siberia. Observations taken there would, the author thinks, 
aid much in deciding when a favourable season for Polar expedi- 
tions might be anticipated. 
A number of Appendices on the scientific results of the voyage 
arc subjoined. Sir J. D. Hooker reports on the plants; Captain 
Feildon on the birds, of which twenty-six species were captured 
and three others identified ; E. J. Miers gives an account of the 
Crustacea; E. A. Smith describes the Mollusca ; F. J. Bell, the 
Echinodermata ; H. B. Brady, the Rhizopoda ; Mr. Etheridge, 
the geological collertions ; R. McLachlan, the inserts ; and Dr. 
Gunther, the fishes. 
The results of the voyage may be pronounced decidedly valu- 
able, especially if we consider its very limited scale and brief 
duration. The book, in addition to its scientific interest, con- 
tains much which cannot fail to gratify the lovers of adventure. 
Education. An International Magazine. Bi-monthly. Devoted 
to Science, Art, Philosophy, Literature, and Education. 
T. W. Bicknell, Condurtor. Vol. I., No. 1. Boston: 
New England Publishing Company. London : Trubner 
and Co. 
We have here the first number of a new journal, thoughtful, 
ably condurted, and if breathing a spirit somewhat strange to us 
not on that account the less interesting. We find, indeed, here 
and there utterances which somewhat surprise us. Thus we 
read — “ The State has always a means of limiting, if necessary, 
the number of those who seek a high education, and casting 
aside those who have not the capacity or the endurance ; they 
may increase the standard of examination for admission and 
graduation so as to secure that only the highest scholars pass." 
Unfortunately examination is no test of the originating power, 
and those “cast aside ” may easily happen to be the very best 
men — the inventors and discoverers. 
Another writer quotes a saying of a professor of the John 
Hopkins University, “that the English people are divided into 
