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Scientjfc Erhedition 70 Mount .Ararat.- The celebrated mountain Ararat, on which, if tradition be believed, are to be seen the re- lies of the ark of Noah, but whose summit has hitherto been inaccessible, has lately been ex- plored by an expedition for Dorpat, consisting of Professor Parrot, the projector, who un- dertook to defray its costs out of his own pri- vate funds, and four students of Dorpat, se- lected by Professor Parrot, for the astronomi- cal department, zoology, botany, and other branches of Natural History. An imperial courier was attached to the expedition by or der of the Russian government, to accelerate its operation and promote it's object, and Ge- neral Count Paskevitch, of Erivan, was di- rected to give it every facility.

 The travellers departed from Dorpat about the middle of March, 1895; crossed the Don, and traversed the steppes of the Cossacks, taking their elevations by the barometer, as far as the salt lakes of the Manich river.- They reached Mozdok, on the Torek, the former boundary of Russia, and arrived at Tif1is in the beginning of June. They halted here tor some time on account of the plague raging at Erivan MT Parrot and his assist