Notes.

The article presents information about new publications related to various topics as history of letters and writing, educational matters and geological survey. The German Imperial Postal Museum in Berlin has recently come into possession of three documents of interest for the history of letters and of writing. They are all derived from the archeological storehouse of Upper Egypt. Another information is about the general report of the Geological Survey of India for the fifteen months ending April 1, 1898. It contains notes of the work of the museum and laboratory and the palaeontological work. The article also mentions a report published in the London Times about the industrial revolution taking place in Russia and a publication of statistics on the condition of educational matters by the Cultus Ministry of Bulgaria.