272 The American Geologist. October, 1894 
the plateau stone implements of Kent, held by Sections C and 
H (Anthropology), was opened by Prof. Rupert Jones, who 
agreed with Prestwich that they afford evidence of a great 
antiquity for man in Britain, ''when the physical geography 
of the Weald was very different from its character to-day." 
Mr. Whitaker, on the other hand, thought that these recent 
discoveries and investigations bring "no evidence to connect 
men with preglacial or even glacial times." 
The Geological Survey of India has issued a second edi- 
tion of its "Manual of the Geology of India," forming a vol- 
ume of 540 pages, with a general geological map, a special 
map and sections of the Himalayas, a map of the Indo-Gan- 
getic alluvium, seventeen plates of typical fossils, and twenty- 
seven figures in the text. This work gives the results of the 
survey to the present time. It includes the greater part of 
the first edition, which was prepared by Medlicott and Blan- 
ford fifteen years ago, to which Mr. R. D. Oldham, the com- 
piler of this edition, has added largety, wholly rewriting the 
chapters on the age and origin of the Himalayas and on the 
geological history of the Indian peninsula. 
The two Arctic expeditions of this summer from the Uni- 
ted States have returned within the past month. Their chief 
contributions to geology are the observations on the border of 
the Greenland ice-sheet by Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, in the 
Peary relief expedition on the Falcon, and by Prof. G. F. 
Wright, in the Cook expedition on the Miranda.- The former 
arrived at St. Johns, Newfoundland, Sept. 15th, having coasted 
along the west side of Greenland, with landings at numerous 
places and special explorations of the glaciers and ice-sheet 
on and near Inglefield gulf, in the vicinity of Peary's winter 
station. Lieut. Peary, with a small party, remains in Green- 
land for another year, hoping thereby to complete his map- 
ping of its northern coast. The Miranda, on her way north, 
collided with an iceberg in the strait of Belle Isle, causing 
delay for repairs in a harbor of Labrador and afterward at St. 
Johns. Again advancing north, this party first landed for 
three days' exploration at Sukkertoppen. Shortly after leav- 
ing this harbor, the Miranda was disabled by striking on a 
submerged reef, causing her to return to Sukkertoppen for a 
further stay of twelve days. After transfer of the scientific 
party, numbering forty-one, to the Gloucester fishing schooner 
Rigel, the Miranda, with the Rigel in tow, started on her re- 
turn to St. Johns, but after steaming about 300 miles was 
abandoned in Davis strait August 23rd, in a sinking condi- 
tion, her crew being all transferred to the schooner. Having 
stopped in Labrador to take twelve others of the Miranda's 
original party, who had remained there, the Rigel arrived at 
the port of North Sydney, Cape Breton island, Sept. 5th. 
