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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



safely promise those' of cur readers, "vvho are 

 interested in engineering and its kindred top- 

 ics, frequent selections from its pages, which 

 ■will amply repay them for the trouble of read- 

 ing. Tliis is a magazine which must be of the 

 greatest Interest to all engineers and mathema- 

 ticians, being made up as it is from all the best 

 scientific journals of the world devoted to these 

 specialties. 



New Kebiedies, Monthly, pp. 32, Wm. Wood 

 & Co., iSTew York, $1.50 



This is a monthly journal of materia med- 

 ica, pharmacy and therapeutics, and is ably 

 edited by Dr. Fred. A. Castle and Charles 

 Eice, 



Sixth Annual Eeport of the Kansas City 

 Public Schools, 1876-77. 100 pp. Eam- 

 sey, Millett & Hudson, Kansas City, Mo. 



The public schools of Kansas City are justly 

 an object of pride to all good citizens, having 

 kept pace with its progress in everything else, 

 and being, unlike some of our public institu- 

 tions, substantial and excellent, in fact as near- 

 ly perfect as good officers and teachers can 

 make them. 



We learn from the President's report thai 

 more than $8,000 of the floating debt has been 

 paid off within the past year ; that the financial 

 condition of the district has steadily improved ; 

 that a handsome library has been established, 

 and that the past year has been the most satis- 

 factory and successful year, so far as the work- 

 ings of the school system are concerned, since 

 its introduction. A high and well-deserved 

 compliment is paid Professor Greenwood and 

 the teachers under his charge, and the report 

 closes with thanks to the community for its 

 unanimity in encouraging and supporting the 

 Board of Education at all times. 



Among our most valued exchanges are the 

 Scientific American and Boston Journal of Chem- 

 istry, both of which have at least a nali&nal 

 reputation as the best publications of their 

 class and to both of which we are indebted for 

 some of our most interesting selections at dif- 

 ferent times. 



The rapidly succeeding numbers of Dr. 



Hay den's Bulletins of the Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survej' of the Territor-ies, filled with 

 important scientific material, already consti- 

 tute a very extensive library of scientific mon- 

 ographs. 



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 Annual Eecord of Science and Industry, 



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Agricultural Geology, Wilson, Hinkle 



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Ethnography of Hidatsa Indians, Secre- 

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List of Elevations, Secretary of Interior, 

 History of American Bison, Secretary 



of Interior, 



Bulletins 7 and 9, National Museum, 



Secretary of Interior, 



Popular Science Monthly, July and Aug. , 



Appleton & Co , 5 00 



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July, Appleton & Co , 3 00 



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 Boston Journal of Chemistry, July, Bil- 

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Mines, Metals, Arts and E. E Journal, 



July, C. E. Ware & Co., .... 200 

 London Journal Applied Science, P. L. 



Simmons, 4s. 



Western Agriculturist, Quincy, Ills., 



July, 1 10 



Sixth Annual Eeport of the Kansas City 



Public Schools, 1876-77. 

 Telegraph Journal, London, Haughton 



& Co., 4s, 



Monthly Weather Eeview, June, Signal 



Office, Washington, 



PhrenolcJgical Journal and Science of 



Health, August, 1877, N. Y., . . . 3 00 

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