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Geological Sukvey of Cape Colony. It is announced that 
a commission has been appointed to undertake a sj'^stematic 
geological survey of this district. One of the first efforts of 
tlie commission will be to prepare a bibliography of publica- 
tions relating to the geology of the region. 
During the past summek Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, while 
at Bering island, was fortunate enough to secure some bones 
of Pallas" cormorant at the locality where he had foinid oth- 
ers in 1882. At the time these were the only known bones of 
this extinct species. Among the more recently obtained spec- 
imens is a fairly complete cranium which is somewhat larger 
than that of any existing species, and is peculiar in the char- 
acter of the ethmoid and opening in the front of the cranium, 
Mr. Grebnitski has also procured some remains of Pallas' cor- 
morant from the same deposit. (Science.) 
"Greenland Icefields," a new volume of the International 
Scientific Series, bj' Prof. G. Frederick Wright and Mr. 
Warren Upham, is announced among the publications of Ap- 
pleton & Co. for the present month. Prof. Wright, in seven 
chapters, describes the floe ice of the Labrador and Spitzber- 
gen currents, his observations on the coasts of Labrador and 
Greenland in the Miranda expedition of last year, the Eski- 
mos, and the Danish settlements. In the next seven chapters 
Mr. Upham writes of the flora and fauna of Greenland, the 
explorations of the Greenland ice-sheet b}^ NordenskjcUd, 
Nansen, Pear}"- and others, the Pleistocene glaeiation of North 
America and Europe, and the causes of the Ice age. The book 
will be illustrated by several maps and many figures from pho- 
tographs. 
The Geological Survey of ( anada has issued, in advance 
of the report, a geological map (Seine River sheet of the 
Thunder Bay and Rainy River districts) of the Seine River 
district of southwestern Ontario. This comprises the region 
directly east of the Rainy Lake gold fields. The belt of Kee- 
watin green schists, in which occur many of the gold veins of 
Rainy lake, extends eastward through this Seine Riv«#r dis- 
trict, and already many mining locations have been taken 
within the limits of this ma]). Tliere are also deposits of iron 
ore known in the Keewatin rocks in the center of this district 
along the Atikokan river. The whole region covered by this 
map is underlain by rocks of pre-Cambrian age, a large part of 
which are gneisses and granites. The geological work was 
done by Messrs. W. H. Smith and Wm. Mclnnes, and the map 
is to illustrate the report of Mr. Mclnnes in volume 7, 1895, 
of the Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
The Wisconsin AcadEiMy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 
will hold its annual meeting at Madison on Thursday, I'riday, 
and Saturday, Dec. 26tli, 27th. and 2Sth. Tlic sessions will 
