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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Owing to a variety of causes, including 

 illness, delay in obtaining suitable pa- 

 per, change of business location, etc., it was 

 impracticable to get out the January number 

 of the Review ; hence we issue a double 

 number this month, which we hope will at 

 least come as near satii^fying our subscribers 

 as it does us, and that is not very close. 



It is thought that tin ore has been discov- 

 ered in Texas. Miners have sent sample 

 specimens to Prof. John D. Parker, of Fort 

 McKavett, asking him to have the matter 

 authoritatively determined. These speci- 

 mens have been submitted for examination 

 to three eminent chemists, and when the 

 analyses have been made and reported, the 

 results will be duly published in this Review. 

 Miners claim that the ores are undoubtedly 

 those of tin, and say that the ores are rich, 

 and that the mines can be worked with pro- 

 fit. 



The American Society of Microscopists, 

 which held a very successful meeting at El- 

 mira, N. Y., in August, 1882, elected Albert 

 McCalla, A. M., of Fairfield College, Iowa, 

 President, and selected Chicago as the place 

 for the meeting of this year and fixed upon 

 the 7th day of August as its date. 



On January 15th blue-birds were seen in 

 this city and wild geese observed flying north; 

 on the 19th the mercury averaged 8° below 

 zero all day. 



Henry N. Copp, of Washington City, has 

 added to the list of similar books written 

 and compiled by him, one entitled " The 

 Settlers' Guide," which contains about all 

 that a person going into any of the new Ter- 

 ritories to locate himself need want to know 

 of the laws and rules applicable to locating 

 Government lands of any kind. 25c. 



The Fifteenth Annual Report of the Pea- 

 body Museum of American Archaeology is 

 before us. Professor Putnam's energetic and 

 enthusiastic temperament and habit are visible- 

 all through it, from the scheme for raising 

 funds for prosecuting his favorite study ta 

 the extremely successful results of his- sum- 

 mer's work and the valuable additions to the 

 museum, as reported. 



We are indebted to Dr. A. B. Stout, of 

 San Francisco, for a copy of the several arti- 

 cles published, in the Transactions of the Cal- 

 ifornia Academy of Sciences, upon the pecul- 

 iar foot-prints discovered in the rock at the 

 Nevada State Prison. They were at first 

 supposed by several savans to be human foot- 

 prints, but it is now pretty unanimously ad- 

 mitted that they are the tracks of one of the 

 huge lizards of that period of the earth's hi.^- 

 tory. 



Since our last issue the list of the Jackson 

 County Flora by Mr. Frank Bush, of Inde- 

 pendence, then announced, has been publish- 

 ed in a neat pamphlet and laid upon our ta- 

 ble. It appears to be very full and ccmpk te. 

 Mr. Bush is to be thanked for doing so la- 

 borious and difficult a work so thoroughly. 



The Historical Society of St. Louis is 

 taking measures to raise funds for the erec- 

 tion of a suitable building for the accumula- 

 tion and preservation of appropriate material, 

 which is very abundant within and in the vi- 

 cinity of that city. The building is to cost 

 about ;^75,coo. 



If the Kansas City Academy of Science, 

 which includes among other branches a sec- 

 tion of Local History, could raise onefourih 

 as much or even $10,000 for the erection of a 

 building, its collections and librr.ry would 

 soon be an object of pride to every intelligent 

 citizen. 



