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the coals, murble.s, building stones and mineral 

 paints of Southeastern Kansas and Southwest- 

 ern ISIissouri, while those displayed by Mr. 

 Curry, of Silverton, Colorado, illustrated in 

 the most attractive and convincing manner the 

 immense wealth of the San Juan region in 

 gold, silver, lead and copper. 



The fossils exhibited by Mr. Hare and Mr. 

 Devens were nearly all illustrative of the geol- 

 ogy of the region immediately in the vicinity 

 of this city, and prove to those interested in 

 •such matters that this field is one well worthy 

 of careful study and research. 



The Amekican Association for the ad- 

 vancement of Science met at Nashville, Au- 

 gust 29tb, and continued in session four days. 



Among the members who were elected Fel- 

 lows of the association were our late fellow 

 <;itizen Octave Chanute, Esq., and Prof. Paul 

 Schweitzer, of Columbia, Mo. 



The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year, viz: President, Prof. O. C. 

 Marsh, of Yale College; Prof. K. H. Thurs- 

 ton, Vice President of the Physical Section ; 

 Prof. A. E. Grote, Vice President of the Sec- 

 tion of Natural History ; Prof. H. C. Bolton. 

 Vice President; General Secretary Prof. F. 

 E. Nipher, of St. Louis University, Secretary 

 -of Section A; Geo. Little, of Atlanta, Ga., 

 Secretary of Section B ; Wm. S. Vaux, Treas- 

 urer ; Prof. F. ^y. Clarke, Chairman of Chem- 

 cal Section C; Henry Wheatland and Samuel 

 H. Scudder, Auditing Committee. 



Professor Marsh's paper on the " Introduc- 

 tion and Succession of Vertebrate Life in 

 America," as well as other most interesting 

 papers by Prof. Daniel Wilson, Chairman of 

 the Subsection of Anthropology, Prof. Isawa, 

 of Japan, Prof. Mallory, Prof. J. W, Osborne, 

 and Prof. F. C. Mendenhall, were read and 

 most of them published in the New York 

 Tribune. The next meeting of the association 

 will be held in St. Louis, in August, 1878. 



Mr. Euwin Shikn, route agent on the 

 Western Division of the Kansas Pacific Rail- 

 way, Avhile out hunting antelope on Bijou 

 creek, about sixty-five miles northeast of Den- 

 ver City, Colorado, had the good fortune to 

 find a portion of the leg bone of a mastodon, 



Being an enthusiast on such' subjects, Mr. 

 Shinn was much elated by his discovery and 

 brought the relic to this city at once, where it 

 has been for some time on exhibition at the 

 the rooms of the Academy of Science. 



When found it measured over twenty inches 

 in length, but about eight inches, being much 

 decayed, crumbled away. The remaining por- 

 tion weighs 13 pounds, measures 12 inches in 

 length and 29 i inches around the upper end. 

 It is in an excellent state of preservation and 

 shows the roughened surfaces for the attach- 

 ments of the muscles as distinctly as if pre- 

 pared by an anatomist but a few months ago. 

 Doubtless the whole skeleton lies imbedded in 

 the sands of the Bijou creek and may be found 

 by a diligent and well directed search. 



In explanation of the unusual delay in issu- 

 ing the present number of the Review, we can 

 only offer the excuse that the occurrence of the 

 Kansas City Exposition in September absorbed 

 about two weeks of the time of the editor, 

 printers and binders, to the exclusion of almost 

 everything else, an excuse which all who at- 

 tended the Exposition and saw how completely 

 our citizens devoted themselves to it, will ac- 

 cept as valid and sufficient. 



The exploring party sent out by the Kansas 

 State University during the past summer, ac- 

 cording to Harper s Weekly, discovered a 

 number of a very rare species of beetle of the 

 genus Amhlycliila, the acquisition of which 

 has long been an object by collectors of cole- 

 optera. For the purpose of securing funds to 

 defray the expenses of their explorations, the 

 authorities of the university offer specimens 

 for sale at a moderate price. 



Stanley "Africanus" has followed up his 

 explorations with such perseverance, energy 

 and courage as to have perfected the work of 

 Livingstone and Cameron in Central Africa by 

 proving that the rivers Lualaba and Congo are 

 one and the game stream ; which places him 

 at the head of living explorers. 



I)R. ScHLiEMANN has offered to present his 

 collection of Trojan curiosities to the South 



