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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The session of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, at Montreal, 

 commencing August 23d, will be unusually 

 interesting from the fact that several eminent 

 scientific men from abroad are expected to be 

 present, among whom are Dr. Wm. B. 

 Carpenter, Mr. Herbert Spencer and Moncure 

 D. Conway, of London ; Dr. Samuel Haugh- 

 ton, of Dublin ; Prof. H. Renard, of Brus- 

 sels; Prof. J. Szabo, of Buda-Pesth, and 

 Prof. Stephanesco, of Bucharest. Excursions 

 to Ottawa and Quebec, Lake Memphremagog 

 and Newport, Vt., besides numerous social 

 entertainments, will be given to the members. 



We observe frequent references in the daily 

 papers to the propriety and importance of 

 filling the ofHce of State Superintendent of 

 Public Schools by the election of Prof. J. 

 M. Greenwood, of this city, and we unhesi- 

 tatingly state^that in our judgment no better 

 selection could be made, whether scholarship, 

 experience or ability is needed. 



Professor Otis T. Mason, of Columbian 

 College, Washington, D. C, the Secretary 

 of the Authropological Section of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, is desirous of receiving communi- 

 cations and papers upon the subject, in- 

 cluding inquiries into the origin, antiquity 

 and primitive condition of man, his zoologic 

 characteristics and relationships, arts and 

 aesthetic customs, sociology and religion, to 

 be presented to the Association at the Mon- 

 treal meeting, this month. 



Dr. Chas. H. Sternberg, who has con- 

 tributed to the Review a number of articles 

 on the Geology and Palaeontology of the 

 Western States and Territories, has recently 

 returned to Cambridge from an exploring 

 tour in Texas, and is now engaged in pre- 



paring the specimens secured for the Peabody 

 Museum, at Harvard College. ^ 



Gen. Jno. A. H alderman, of Kansas, U. 

 S. Minister to Siam, has recently placed the 

 Kansas City Academy of Science under 

 obligations by sending to its library a full set 

 of the Consular Commercial Reports. 



We have received from Prof. E. T. Nelson, 

 of the Ohio Wesleyan University, a copy of 

 the Third Anaual Report of the Museum, by 

 which it appears that it is in a flourishing 

 condition. In such hands it cannot fail to 

 become in a short time a very valuable 

 collection. 



A GOOD, soft coal, smoke-consuming fur- 

 nace for heating residences, churches, stores, 

 &c., is one of the great desiderata of the 

 West, and it is becoming quite certain that 

 Mr. C. C. Hare, of this city, has met the 

 want in his ''Bituminous King." The 

 principles involved in its construction are 

 undoubtedly correct, and he claims that its 

 economy, cleanliness and efficiency have 

 been fully proven. 



Gen. Hartranft proposes to construct an 

 electric railway in Fairmount Park, Phila- 

 delphia, after the plan of that now in success- 

 ful operation in Berlin. * 



Ten prizes of ^1200 each are offered by the 

 Agricultural Bureau at Washington, for the 

 best results reported by manufacturers of 

 Sorghum sugar, and two of the same amount 

 for similar reports by manufacturers of beet 

 sugar. 



C. F. McGlashan, of Santa Barbara, 

 California, has invented a system of railroad 

 telegraphy by which moving trains can keep 

 in constant communication with each other 



