Propagating Roses.

A Few of the Best Inulas.--With engraving.

Fruit Growing.--By P.H. FOSTER.

IX. MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.--A People without Consumption,
and Some Account of Their Country, the Cumberland Tableland.
--By E.M. WIGHT.

The Treatment of Habitual Constipation.

X. MISCELLANEOUS.--The French Scientific Station at Cape Horn.

XI. BIOGRAPHY.--The Late Maori Chief, Mete Kingi.--With portrait.

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THE FRENCH SCIENTIFIC STATION AT CAPE HORN.


In 1875 Lieutenant Weyprecht of the Austrian navy called the attention
of scientific men to the desirability of having an organized and
continual system of hourly meteorological and magnetic observations
around the poles. In 1879 the first conference of what was termed the
International Polar Congress was held at Hamburg. Delegates from eight
nations were present--Germany, Austria, Denmark, France, Holland,