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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



In commencing the Sixth Volume of the 

 Review we are gratified to be able to state 

 that it has continued to receive flattering 

 commendations from all sources on the im- 

 provements made in its appearance within 

 the past year and upon the popular character 

 and good quality of the articles published. 

 One of the most frequent comments of East- 

 ern writers is surprise that the people of the 

 West, where money making is supposed to 

 be the chief object of life, should continue 

 to support a magazine of its grade and pur- 

 pose. They forget or overlook the fact that 

 in the West liberality goes with money mak- 

 ing and that many persons, who have little 

 time to read the Review, think it worthy of 

 support and have it sent to distant friends 

 as an evidence of the progress Kansas City 

 is making as a centre of intelligence and 

 knowledge as well as a commercial empo- 

 rium. Numerous instances can be given 

 where this kind of patronage has resulted to 

 the advantage of the whole community at a 

 very small cost to the individual. As has 

 several times been stated, the publication of 

 the Review is a labor of love with its pro- 

 prietor, who can only devote his evenings to 

 the work and who has no expectation that it 

 will ever be a source of profit, but who feels 

 that it is an enterprise that should be foster- 

 ed by all good citizens, not only for the good 

 it may do in their own families, where it 

 will pay for itself many times over every 

 year, — but also because it helps to round out 

 the city in those features which make it a 

 desirable and attractive residence for the 

 best classes of people. 



All subscribers wishing back numbers of 

 the Review bound can have it done in hand- 

 some half morocco and cloth for ;^i.oo per 

 volume by leaving them at this office. 



The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Kansas 

 City Academy of Science will be held at the- 

 First Baptist Church, corner of I2th street 

 and Baltimore Ave., on the last Tuesday of 

 this month. The annual address will be de- 

 livered by Rev. Alex. Proctor. The exer- 

 cises are open to the public. 



The Signal Service Bureau has published 

 the Report of Sergeant J. P. Finley, on the 

 Tornadoes of May 29 and 30, 1879, ^'^ Kan- 

 sas and Missouri, and No. 4 of its Profession- 

 al Papers. It is a comprehensive account, 

 statistical, descriptive and theoretical, of the 

 whole subject, which we shall take occasion 

 to notice fully hereafter. Mr. Finley or 

 some other officer of the Signal Corps will be 

 sent out soon to investigate the tornadoes of 

 last month, in which case we are expecting a. 

 synopsis of his report in advance. 



Prof. Wm. Dawson, the Quaker shoe- 

 maker astronomer, of Spiceland, Indiana,, 

 says of the Review in a recent letter, ''I 

 count it among the very choice part of my 

 magazine literature, and hope to long receive 

 it." 



The Twenty-First Annual Session of the 

 Missouri State Teachers' Association will be 

 held at Sweet Springs, (Brownsville) Saline 

 County, Missouri, June 20, 21 and 22, 1882. 

 Every friend of education is requested to en- 

 courage, by his presence, the objects of the 

 Association. 



This number of the Review has been great- 

 ly delayed awaiting the receipt of the cuts 

 for the completion of Mr. Wortman's artic'e 

 on the "Origin and Development of Exist- 

 ing Horses." When they did finally arrive 

 mistakes were discovered necessitating the 

 omission of the article and the substitution of 

 another. 



