640 



EDI TORI A L N O TES. 



27 mi'es from La Veta. The work will be 

 pushed iorvvard as rapid'yas possible until the 

 road i-eaches the San Juan mining district. 

 Some of the finest engineering ever done in this 

 country has been done on this road by Col. 

 McMurtry, and it is claimed that it attains the 

 highest elev tion of any railroad in the United 

 States — nearly 9,oo9 feet above the level of the 

 sea — in crossing the Sangre de Christo pas*-'. 



Wk are pleased to announce that we can fur- 

 nish the Reyiew for the succeeding yenr, with 

 Popular Science Monthly, Popular Sc'ence 

 Monthly Supplement, Van No^^trand's Engin- 

 eering Magazine, Scientific American, New 

 York Medical Journal, American Naturalist, 

 American Journal of Science and Arts, Norih 

 x\raerican Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's 

 Monthly, Appleton's Journal, at rates much 

 below the regular price of it and any one of them 

 alone. Terms made known on application. 



The Postal, Guide is a quarterly publica- 

 tion of over 200 pages, which contains informa- 

 tion rrlative to the postal service, rates of for- 

 eign and domestic postagr-, rulings of the De- 

 partment, list of post offices, monej'^ order 

 offices, &c., &c , which every business man 

 needs. We can furnish it at !pl.50 per annum, 

 or oOc. per single copy. 



Prof. Aughey, of the Lincoln University 

 of Nebraska, has Avritten a very full and inter- 

 esting account of the so-railed Nebraska vol- 

 canoes, in which he expla'ns that they are 

 simply portions of the river blufis which have 

 been undermined and fallen into the water, 

 where the sulphuretsand other minerals have 

 become slaked, thereby creating the heat which 

 produces the steam, smoke and flames, causing 

 the resemblance to real volcanoes. 



Prof. Tiffin Simks, M. D., is delivering a 

 sej-ies of lectures upon Evo.ution beiore the 

 Leavenworth Academy of Science. The first 

 ot t' e course was given at the regular meeting 

 in November, and, according to the Times of 

 that city, was very able, creating a high degree 

 of interest among his auditors. The second 

 lecture will be delivered this evening, Dec. 18. 



Pkof. Robert Gallaway suggests the use 

 of phosphate of potash is a much better remedy 

 for scurvy than lime juice, and at the same time 

 increases the nutritiveness of salted meat. 



PERIODICALS RECEIVED. 



New York Medical Journal, D. Appleton 



&Co., N. Y $4.00. 



American Naturalist, H. O Houghton & 



Co., Boston, 4.00 



American Journal of Science and Arts, 



New Haven, 6.00 



Popular Science Monthly, D. Appleton &. 



Co., N Y., 5.00 



Van Nostrand's Eng'neering Magazine, D. 



Van Nostrand, N. Y., '. 5 00 



Gardener's Monthly, C. H. Marot, Phila., $2.10 

 North American Review, J. R. Osgood & 



Co., Boston, 5.00 



Engineering and Mining Journal, N. Y.,.. 4.00 



Science Observer, Boston, 50 



Boston Journal of Chemistry, Boston, 1.00 



Sanitarain, N. Y., 3.00 



Druggist's Circu'ar, N. Y., 1.50 



New Remedies, W. W. Wood & Co., N. Y. 1.50 

 London Journal of the Te'egraph, London, 4s, 



London Journal of Applied vScience, " 4s. 



Library Table, H. L. Hinton & Co , N. Y., 2 00 

 Month'y Weather Review, Washington, 



D C. 

 Popular Science Monthly, Supplement, 



N. Y., , ..: , 3.00 



Efiiiineering and Mining Journal, N. Y , 



weekly, 4.00 



Mines, Metals and Arts, C. E. Wai'e & Co , 



St. Louis, 2.00 



Scieniific American, N. Y , 3.20 



Phrenological Journal, S. R. Wells & Co., 



N. Y , , 2.00 



Kansas Farmer, J. K. Hudson,... 2.00 



Western Agriculturist, Quincy, Ills., 2.00 



Kansas Collegiate, Topeka, Ka^s., 50 



The Jewell, Liberty, Mo LOO 



Report of Kansas State Board of Agriculture. 

 The Institute, Nov., 1877, Glasgow, Mo. 



The College Chaplet, St Joseph, Mo., 1.00 



Medical Record, weekly, W. W. Wood & 



N.Y., 5.00 



Ohio Educational Monthly, Salem, Q., 1.50 



Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal, Col- 

 umbus, Ohio 2.00 



