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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



and where it must and does occur the fact is 

 capable of a very different explanation. 



Eemoval of Hardened Secretions from 

 THE Nasad Passages, and A Simple Mode 

 OF Cleansing the Nasal and Pharyn- 

 GO-NASAL Passages, by Thomas F. Kum- 

 bold, M. D., St. Louis, Mo., reprinted from 

 the Chicago Medical Examiner. 



Both of these articles are eminently prac- 

 tical and deserving of a wide distribution. 

 The subject of catarrh has never been very 

 thoroughly understood, and anything tending 

 to elucidate it and render the disease amenable 

 to rational treatment should meet with a hearty 

 welcome from both patient and practitioner. 



The Library Table, Vol. Ill, No. 9, H. L. 

 Hinton & Co., New York; Aveekly, 16 pp. 

 quarto; $3.00 per annum. 



This consists of book notices, literary gos- 

 sip and reviews, and is a very readable and 

 valuable periodical. One of its novelties is 

 that the names of the writers are all signed to 

 their articles. The last pages are devoted to 

 an index of magazine articles, made up from 

 the various periodicals of Europe and the 

 United States, and a record of new books. 



Monthly Report of the Kansas State 

 Board of Agriculture, for July, 1S77, by 

 Alfred Gray, Secretary, containing reports of 

 Condition of crops and farm animals, Fruit 

 crops and supply ; Crop reports of acreage by 

 counties, Dairy products. Garden products. 

 Wheat market, Fish culture, etc., etc. We have 



before referred to this report as a very valuable 

 one for the people of Kansas and are glad to 

 see that its interest is fully kept up. 



The American Journal of Microscopy 

 AND Popular Science, published monthly in 

 New York, by the Handicraft Publication Co , 

 has been sent us, with all the back numbers of 

 this 3'ear, and we gladly welcome it as an ex- 

 change. It is a sixteen paged octavo, illus- 

 trated, and will be found a useful and enter- 

 taining magazine to those interested in the 

 subject of microscopy. 50 cents per annum. 



Bancroft's Messenger, July and August, 

 1877. A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francis- 

 co, Cal. 



This is a bi-monthly publication intended 

 partly as a medium of intelligence concerning 

 literary subjects, such as new books, music, 

 artistic printing, etc., and partly as a means of 

 advertising their own business. 



The Central Baptist, Vol. XII, No. 31, 

 Yeaman & Ferguson, St. Louis; weekly, 8 pp ; 

 $2 50 per annum, is one of the best denomina- 

 tional journals in the West, and should receive 

 the universal patronage of the Baptists of 

 Missouri and the West. 



Eeport on Pauperism and Poor Laws 

 in Sweden and Norway, by C. C. Andrews^ 

 United States Resident Minister at Stockholm. 

 32 pp. octavo. 



