the Commissioners appointed by Parliament in the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889-A Railway through Southern Persia (Maj.-Gen. Sir F. Goldsmid)-Spanish Honduras (Will Pilcher)-The Relief of Emin Pasha, A Review of Mr. Jephson's Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator.

GOTHA.-Petermanns Mitteilungen.

Involuntary Migrations in the Pacific Ocean-The
Algerian Atlas Range-The New Limits in
Africa-The Arabs on the Nile Lakes-The
Report on the Present Position of the Panama
Canal Company-The Beginning of the World
and Geological Time-Avalanches in the Rie-
sengebirge-Historical Development of the
Knowledge of the Greenland Inland Ice-
Plan of an Expedition to Eastern Greenland-
Communications from North Borneo-Shore-
lines and Terraces-A Journey in German
New Guinea-The Work on the Nicaragua
Canal-The Question of the Many Years'
Periods of Fluctuation in the Level of Bodies
of Water-Hugo Zöller's Expedition to the
Finisterre Mountains (German New Guinea)
-On a Journey to the Eastern Slope of the
Andes between the Rio Diamante and the
Rio Negro (Argentine Republic)-The Bor-
derland of Language in Schleswig-Brown's
Travels in the Musgrave Mountains, South
Australia The Name of the Highest Moun-
tain in the World-An Attempt to Sum up the
Scientific Results of Stanley's March Through

Africa The Molveno Lake in the Tyrol-
Nordenskiöld's Fac-simile Atlas-The New
Edition of Stieler's Hand-Atlas.

Ergänzungsheft, Nr. 99.

East Equatorial Africa, between Pangani and the Newly Discovered Rudolf Lake, by v. Höhnel. LISBON.-Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa.

The Library: Part I., Printed Works-Publications. LONDON.-Royal Geographical Society, Proceedings. The Karun River and the Commercial Geography of Southwest Persia-Across Luristan to Ispahan-Lieut. H. B. Vaughan's Recent Journey in Eastern Persia-Notes on Yoruba and the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, West Africa-Zambezia, the New British Possession in Central South Africa-The Partition of Africa-British Central Africa-A Journey from Lake Nyassa to the Great Loangwa and Upper Zambezi Rivers.

MADRID. Sociedad Geográfica, Boletin.

The Paris Geographical Congress and Exhibition, in 1889-The Portuguese in South Africa and their Discovery of the Chambezi, the Source of the Congo, in 1796-The Polish Traveller Rogozinski, in Fernando Po-The Future of the Spanish Language (in comparison with the other principal tongues) from a Geographical and Statistical Point of View-The Cadastre in Spain-Rivers of Venezuela and Colombia: Unpublished Accounts Collected by Cesáreo Fernandez Duro-The Spanish PyreneesNote on Meteorological Work in Spain-A

New Map of the Zambezi (without date, but
evidently made not long after 1610)-The
Spanish Missions to Fernando Po and Its
Dependencies.

PARIS. Société de Géographie, Compte Rendu. Climatology (the Klima-Schwankungen of Brückner)-Notes on European and Asiatic Russia -Bonvalot in Central Asia-Exploration of the Upper Yang-Tze-The Veddahs of Ceylon -Morocco-The Navigation of the NigerItinerary and Map of Fourneau's Mission from the Ogowe to El Campo-Vancouver, British Columbia-Exploration of the Valley of the Orinoco-Coudreau's Travels in Guiana-M. Thouar in South America-Exploration of the Pilcomayo-Rosario and the Development of its Port-The Arctic: Letters from Schwatka and Nordenskiöld-The Cliff Dwellers of the Sierra Madre-M. Cholet's Explorations in the Gaboon-Congo RegionM. Rabot's Travels in the Petchora Basin, the Northern Ural and Western Siberia-State of the Initial-Meridian Question-The Future of the Solid Earth-Letter concerning Captain Grombtchevsky's Travels in Central AsiaThe Frontier between Tonkin and China-Map showing the Distribution of Wealth in France and the number of Children to the Family in each Department-Maps of the Parapanema and Itapetininga Rivers and of the Geology and Meteorology of S. Paulo, Brazil—Unification of the Hour and the Initial Meridian.

Bulletin.

Report on the Competition for the Annual Prize, 1890-The North African Routes to the Sudan-From Lima to Iquitos-The Resources of Central Asia as a Field for Russian Colonization-Notes on Tibet-The Telegraphic Conference at Paris on the Subject of the Universal Hour.

ROME.-Società Geografica Italiana.

Captain Casati at Rome-Itinerary in Somaliland -Area of the Inhabited Earth according to Strabo-The Italian Emigrant's Guide to Chile Legend of the Jurupary-The Somali, Galla and Harari Spoken Tongues-Letter from Dr. Traversi-Two Excursions in the Dembelas Country (Ethiopia)-Ethnographic Study on the Population of the Caucasus. VIENNA.-Mittheilungen der Kais. Königl. Geographischen Gesellschaft.

The Highland of Ulnia or Zeitun, (Eastern Cilicia) -The Southern Watering-Places on the Austrian Coast-The Subterranean Water-Courses of Carniola-The Panama Canal CompanyThe Profit of the Sumatra Coal Fields-The Date (Time Reckoning) in the Philippines. WASHINGTON-National Geographic Magazine. The Arctic Cruise of the U. S. S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889-The Law of Storms, Considered with Special Reference to the North Atlantic-The Irrigation Problem in Montana.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 20, 1890.

THE UNITED STATES CENSUS.-The population", of
the United States (Alaska and whites in Indian Terri-
tory excepted), as finally determined, November 25, is
62,622,250; a difference of 141,710 from the statement
of October 28. The enumerations are: