316 KANSAS CITY RE VIEW OF SCIEN CE. 



in more readable and fascinating style. Dr. Kuenen is especially fortunate in 

 his translator. 



Annual Report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1880 : 

 Octavo, pp. 772. Government Printing Office, 1881. 



As heretofore, the Report is a careful and detailed account of the operations, 

 expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1880, prepared by the 

 Secretary who is also Chief Director. This occupies one hundred and eighty 

 pages and is followed by an appendix comprising five hundred and sixty pages 

 devoted to a record of scientific progress. The introduction to this is by Prof. 

 Baird; the chapter upon Astronomy by Prof. E. S. Holden; those on Geology 

 and Mineralogy by Prof. G. W. Hawes; Physics and Chemistry by Prof. G. F. 

 Barker ; Botany by Prof. W. G. Farlow ; Zoology by Prof. Theo. Gill ; Anthro- 

 pology by Prof. O. T. Mason. These papers are very complete and valuable, 

 and most of them have been published in pamphlet form and distributed long 

 since. 



The remainder of the volume is made up of miscellaneous papers on various 

 subjects. Among them is a very interesting account of the Luray Cavern in 

 Page County, Virginia, fully illustrated. 



The paper, prmt, and general make-up of the volume are better than usual, 

 and if the Reports could by any possibility be published promptly, instead of two 

 years after date, they would be warmly welcomed by the scientific public. 



Report Upon the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the One Hun- 

 dredth Meridian: By Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler, U.S. A.; quarto, pp. 420. 

 Government Printing Office, 1881. 



The volume in hand is the third — supplement — Geology, and is an exceed- 

 ingly handsome book, well printed and illustrated. The writer is Prof. John J. 

 Stevenson, Ph. D., and the immediate subject of the report is geological exami- 

 nations in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico during the years 1878-9. 

 To this is added an appendix upon the Corboniferous Invertebrate fossils of New 

 Mexico prepared by C. A. White, M. D. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Proceedings of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute, Vol. I, No. 3, July, 1882 ; 

 quarterly, $1.00 per annum. Report of the Commissioners of the 9th Cincinnati 

 Industrial Exposition. The Change of Life in Health and Disease, P. Blakiston 

 & Son, Philadelphia, Pa.; 75c. Proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, 30th meeting, August, 1881. The Leading Industries 

 of Kansas City, pp. 192, octavo. i:\\t Peoria Medical Monthly, Aug. 1882 ;$i per 



