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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



KANSAS CITY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, 



The Academy met at its rooms on the eve- 

 ning of the last Tuesday in November. The 

 attendance was unusually large, tlie room be- 

 ing filled completely. Judge West occupied 

 the chair, and Prof. Sheffield acted as Secre- 

 tary. 



A letter from Prof. W. K. Kedzie, of the 

 Kansas Agricultural College, proposing to de- 

 liver a lecture during the Holidays, on the 

 Telephone, with experiments, was read, and on 

 motion a committee was appointed to arrange 

 the time and olace 



On motion Mr, Francis Devens, of this city, 

 was elected a member of the Academy, and 

 appointed Taxidermist. 



After some other business, a paper on "Some 

 of the Objections to the Evolution Theory," 

 was read by T. S. Case, which elicited an ani- 

 mated difcussiou. This was toUowed by a 

 paper on "Short-Sightedness in' School Chil- 

 dren," by Prof. J. M. Greenwood, Principal ot 

 the Kansas City Pub'ic Schools. Both of these 

 papers will be found in this number of the 

 Eeview. 



At the request of the Academy, Col. K. T. 

 Van Horn consented to furnish a paper for the 

 next meeting, upon "The Atmosphere." It 

 was also announced thai Miss Murdfeldt, of St. 

 Lou'Sj would read an essay upon "Entomology," 

 and that Prof. Broadhead, of Pleasant Hill, 

 Mo , would read one upon the "Missouri Iron 

 Ores of the Carboniferous Age." This will be 

 a most interesting meeting and should draw a 

 large audience. 



The lecture of Prof. Kedzie upon the Tele- 

 phone will be illustrated by the use of twelve 

 instruments, together with large charts ex- 

 plaining and illustrating the action of the 

 instruments, and more than a mile of wire. 

 The Professor writes to a friend in the city 

 that he has been experimenting considerably 

 and has made some very interesting discov- 

 eries. His lecture will take place December 



of which due notice will be made in the 



daily papers. 



The subjoined letter, from an old citizen, 

 will be of interest to those of our readers who 

 pay attention to archaeology : 



Kansas City, Nov. 29, 1877. 



Coi,. Case: — Hearing of the interest you 

 take in the mounds of Missouri, and having 

 traveled over all the State and examined a 

 large number of them, I take this opportunity 

 lo give you a little information respecting 

 the location of a few. The only one I ever ex- 

 amined closely was in Newton county, on Five 

 Mile Creek, some eight miles southeast of Bax- 

 ter. I opened a small mound there and found 

 Indian bones, but they fell to a gray powder 

 as soon as they were exposed to the air. I 

 found a flint ax, fifty arrow heads, stone pipe, 

 and ten copper rings, suppose they were on the 

 Indian's arm. The largest mound I know of 

 is in Cooper county, on the Lamine river, near 

 Buffalo Prairie. It is halt a mile south of 

 the salt spi'ings, on what is called the Bailey 

 farm. To find it, take the M., K, & T. E. K. 

 at Sedalia and go to Harris' Station, 21 miles 

 from Sedalia. Inquire there for Conrad Cash 

 and he will guide you to them. This mound 

 is about twenty leet in diameter and about six 

 feet high. There are several large trees near 

 it, one on the top. It has large stones around 

 it set up on edge. I had a man dig down 

 three feet on top and he came to a large flat 

 stone which seems to cover the whole mound. 

 It sounded hollow and I think there is a kind 

 of vault under it. The country surrounding 

 this place was at one time a great hunting 

 country, as the game came here from far and 

 wide on account of the number of salt springs. 

 The mound is on a high hill overlooking Sa- 

 line county. C. C. C. 



The value of the storm warnings of the Sig- 

 nal Service becomes daily more apparent. The 

 heavy gale in the midst of which the unfortu- 

 nate Huron went ashore on the North Carolina 

 coast was extremely severe in many parts of 

 Virginia, Maryland and Georgia, as well as in 



