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650 GeneralNotes. [July
Leconte,70s.-The Relationof Evolutionto Religious Thought. Fromthe author.
Kimball, J. P.-Annual Report of the Directorof the Mint. i886. From the
Director.
Biological Societyof Washinrlon.-Proceedings,vol. iii. JulyI, 1884, to February
6, i886. Fromthe Society.
Rothpletz,A.-Geologisch-palaontologischeMonographieder Vilser Alpen. i886.
Pavlov, A.-Les Ammonitesde la zone A AspidocerasAcanthicum. M6m. du
Comit6 Geologique St. Petersbourg,i886.-Sur l'histoirede la faune Kim-
meridiennede la. Russe.-Les Ammonitesdu groupe Olcostephanusversicolor.
Moscow, i886. All fromthe author.
Leche, W.-Ueber die Saugethieregattung Galeopithecus. Stockholm,I886. From
the author.
Hei15rin,A.-Explorations of theWest Coast of Florida. i886. Fromthe author.
Dugis, A.-El Trombidium 'z brmeilli,
nov. sp. Fromthe author.
Wright,R. R.-On the Skull and AuditoryOrgan of Hypophthalmus. Trans.
Roy. Soc. Can., 1885. From,the author.
Andrea, A.-Ueber das elsassischeTertiarund seine Petroleumlager.-UeberMee-
ressandund Septarienthon.-Ueberdas Alter des Melamerikalkes,etc. All
fromthe author.
Woriman, _7.L.-Comparative Anatomyof the Teeth of the Vertebrata. i886.
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7ordan, D. S.-Fishes collected at Beaufort,S. C.-Fishes collected at Havana,
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GENERAL NOTES.
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.
General.-It is pointed out by Ed. Heawood, in a recent
numberof the Piroc.Roy. Geog. Soc., that the relationsof length
of the eight principal rivers given by General Tillo would be
greatly altered were the general course taken, and the minor
tortuositiesleft out. The Nile would unquestionablythen be
the longest river (3I00 miles), the Yang-tse-Kiang (2750) and
Yenesei (2700) would exceed the Amazons (2600), and this the
Mississippi(2500), while the Congo would equal the Mississippi,
and the Amur (2200) and Mackenzie (i8oo) would come after
the Hoang-Ho, Obi-Irtigh,Lena, and Mekong.