EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



THE KANSAS CITY ACADEMY OE SCIENCE. 



The society met at their rooms, 718 Main 



street, June 26th, President E.. T. Van Horn in 



the chair. Minutes of last meeting read and 



approved. Eev. James G. Roberts, treasurer, 



made the following report : 



Dr. 



To balance May 21, 187R $71 50 



To feesi and dues May 31, ISTG, to May 31, 1877... 20 00 



$97 50 

 1876, Cr. 



October 15, by cash book $ 1 00 



October 30, by specimen case 5 30 



1877. 



Feb. 2, by postage, expressage, etc 6 00 



By exploration of mounds 10 00 



June 26, by cash on hand 74 60 



$97 50 



Judge West moved that a committee of 

 three he appointed to raise money for library 

 and cabinet purposes. Committee — Messrs. 

 West, Parker and Winner. 



On motion, Prof. Parker was instructed to 

 ascertain if the Kansas Academy of Science 

 would hold the next semi-annual meeting of 

 their society in Kansas City. 



Dr. T. J. Eaton was appointed to read a pa- 

 per at the September meeting. 



Dr. Halley then read a carefully prepared 

 paper on "Heat as a Remedial Agent," which 

 appears in this number of tne lievieio. 



Col. Van Horn thought that the Academy 

 ought to continue their explorations of the 

 mounds, and make their investigations as com- 

 plete as possible. 



On account of the the absence of many 

 teachers and members of the society from the 

 city during the heated term, the academy re- 

 solved to adjourn until the last Tuesday in 

 September. 



On July 18th there arrived at the Union 

 Depot one of the most distinguished scientific 

 exploring parties that has ever passed West 

 It consisted of Prof. Hayden, chief of the 

 United States geological survey; Col. James 

 Stevenson, of Washington ; Prof. Joseph 

 Leidy, of the University of Pennsylvania; 



Prof. Asa Gray, ot Harvard University, and 

 other distinguished scientists of the United 

 States. They were accompanied by Dr. Joseph 

 D. Hooker, President of the Royal Society of 

 London, director ot the new botanical gardens, 

 etc., and Lieut. Gen. Strachey, of the Royal 

 Bengal Engineers, and a member of the coun- 

 cil for India. These gentlemen some time 

 since made arrangements, through friends in 

 Washington and elsewhere, for a tour of scien- 

 tific research this summer in Colorado, Utah 

 and California, in company with the above dis- 

 tinguished Americans. The result of the tour 

 will be communicated on the part of our coun- 

 trymen, to the government at ^A'ashington, in 

 the shape of reports. 



Gen. Strachey has been for many years a 

 prominent member of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, and is now President of the geograph- 

 ical section of the British association for the 

 advancement of science. He is author of sev- 

 eral books of travel, and has a world-wide 

 reputation as a geoprapher. Mrs. Hooker and 

 Mrs. Stachey accompanied their husbands. The 

 former was the widow of Sir William Jordan, 

 an eminent naturalist, and Mrs. Stachey is the 

 daughter of Sir J. R, Grant, formerly governor 

 of Bengal, and at a later period governor of Ja- 

 maica. 



At the depot the party was met by Judge 

 West and Dr. Fee, of the Kansas City Acade- 

 my of Science, who exhibited to them a number 

 of relics found in the mounds of Clay county. 

 They were highly pleased with them, and spoke 

 in warm terms of the energy displayed by 

 Kansas City in establishing a museum, and 

 prosecuting local scientific researches. The 

 party only remained about thirty minutes, and 

 then proceeded west to Denver. The results of 

 this extended scientific tsur, which has been 

 thus arranged, will, it is believed, be of great 

 interest and value, and these will be attained 

 entirely at the private expense of the distin- 

 guished gentlemen who compose the expedition. 

 ■Kansas City Journal of Commerce. 



