2 DR. SCHLIEMANN'S DISCOTEBIES. 



chemistry and metallurgy, geology, meteorology, archaeology, agriculture 

 and horticultiire, materia medica, therapeutics and hj^giene, domestic econ- 

 omy and scientific bibliography, derived from the best and most authentic 

 sources., systematically arranged and presented in a j)lain and simple man- 

 ner, so as to give actual and practical results in a form adapted to the wants 

 and tastes of all classes of readers. 



It is believed that such a journal will enable amateurs to keep pace in a 

 general way with the advancement and progress made in most if not all of 

 the departments of science, and that its practical suggestions and selections 

 will be found of decided value to working people of all classes, whether ia 

 the laboratory, the workshop, the field or the dwelling house; and it is 

 hoped that it may meet with a suj)port commensurate with its merits, in 

 which event no efforts' will be spared to make it equal to any periodical of 

 the kind in the country. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



The recent discoveries made by General Di Cesnola, in Cyprus, and Dr. 

 Schliemann, in Asia Minor and Mycense, are attracting so much attention on 

 account of their wonderful results and all absorbing interest, that we have 

 concluded, at the risk of seeming to be behind the times, to give a summary 

 of all that both have done up to the present time. 



We also call attention to the very interesting contribution made by 

 Judge West to the literature of mound building, in his report to the Kansas 

 City Academy of Science of the explorations made by himself and his asso- 

 ciates among the mounds of Clay County, Missouri, last fall. 



DR. SCHLIEMANN'S DISCOVERIES AT MYCEN^. 



Dr. Henry Schliemann, who is now about fifty years of age, is described 

 as being five feet nine inches in height, rather stout, with full, round, un- 

 shaven face, and wearing the air of and clothes of a successful merchant. 

 He seems to have commenced life as as an employe in a German mercantile 

 house, where he learned Italian from a fellow clerk, bought a grammar and 

 taught himself Greek; became passionately fond of Homer and other an- 

 cient Greek authors; afterwards learned Russian and went to Russia and 

 engaged in business, where he made a handsome fortune, which he subse- 

 quently increased to a princely sum in California. 



Having always opposed the "Wolfian hypothesis" that the Homeric 

 poems are simply made up of some sixteen or more rhapsodic songs, composed 

 independently by a number of poets, transmitted from remote periods by 



