"The work of marking certain provisional boundary points, for convenience of administration, around the head of Lynn Canal, in accordance with the temporary arrangement of October, 1899, was completed by a joint survey in July last. {10} The modus vivendi has so far worked without friction, and the Dominion Government has provided rules and regulations for securing to our citizens the benefit of the reciprocal stipulation that the citizens or subjects of either Power found by that arrangement within the temporary jurisdiction of the other shall suffer no diminution of the rights and privileges they have hitherto enjoyed. But however necessary such an expedient may have been to tide over the grave emergencies of the situation, it is at best but an unsatisfactory makeshift, which should not be suffered to delay the speedy and complete establishment of the frontier line to which we are entitled under the Russo-American treaty for the cession of Alaska. In this relation I may refer again to the need of definitely marking the Alaskan boundary where it follows the 141st meridian. A convention to that end has been before the Senate for some two years, but as no action has been taken I contemplate negotiating a new convention for a joint determination of the meridian by telegraphic observations. These, it is believed, will give more accurate and unquestionable results than the sidereal methods heretofore independently followed, which, as is known, proved discrepant at several points on the line, although not varying at any place more than seven hundred feet." ALEXANDRIA: Discovery of the Serapeion. See (in this volume) ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: EGYPT: DISCOVERY OF THE SERAPEION. ALEXANDRIA: Patriarchate re-established. See (in this volume) PAPACY: A. D. 1896 (MARCH). ALIENS IMMIGRATION LAW, The Transvaal. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (THE TRANSVAAL): A. D. 1896-1897 (MAY-APRIL). ALPHABET, Light on the origin of the. See (in this volume) ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: CRETE. AMATONGALAND: Annexed, with Zululand, to Natal. See (in this volume) AFRICA: A. D. 1897 (ZULULAND). AMERICA: The Projected Intercontinental Railway. See (in this volume) RAILWAY, THE INTERCONTINENTAL. AMERICA, Central. See (in this volume) CENTRAL AMERICA. AMERICAN ABORIGINES. See (in this volume) INDIANS, AMERICAN. AMERICAN REPUBLICS, The Bureau of the.