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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Pruk. Otis T. Mason, of Columbia Col- 

 lege, Wasning^ton City, in the November 

 American AuuiraHst, to which we have so 

 often referred as one of the very best scienti- 

 fic magazines published, refers with much 

 pride to the growth of anthropology as a 

 science. He deprecates the idea that every 

 gatherer of old bones and arrow-heads is a 

 scientist, but insists upon it that the subject 

 is of the highest value scientifically and that 

 each of its branches, named by him, respec- 

 tively, Anthropogeny, Anthropography, An- 

 thropology and Anthroponomy, will afford 

 ground for the deepest researches and pro- 

 found philosophy. The meetings of the An- 

 thropological Section at the Montreal meet- 

 ing of the American Association were largely 

 attended, and most of the papers read were 

 able, instructive and interesting. 



RbV. S. D. PfiET, editor of the American 

 Antiquarian continues in the January number 

 his inieresting and well written articles upon 

 ancient village architecture in America, in- 

 cluding Indian and Mound-Builder's villages, 



also several suggestive editorials. Albert 



S. Gatschet a well-known anthropologist of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, contributes a 

 paper upon the Chumeto Language. Mr. 

 Read's description of the Old Pecos pueblo 

 differs so widely from our own personal ob- 

 se-vations in 1880, that if it were not for his 

 reference to the ruin of the ancient Spanish 

 church, we should hardly recognize it as 

 applying to ihe same place. The oriental 

 notes are a very attractive feature. The 

 Antiquarian is the only periodical in the 

 country wholly devoted to archaeology and 

 deserves a liberal support. 



The Atlantic Monthly presents for 1883 an 

 an ay of contributors not excelled in number 

 or ability to instruct and entertain by any 

 magazine in the country. Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes, who has resigned his professorship in 

 Harvard University in order that he may de- 

 vote himself more fully to literary pursuits, 

 will write exclusively for it ; Henry James, 

 Jr., will write essays, criticisms, etc., in addi- 



tion to his dramatized version of " Daisy Mil- 

 ler ; " W. D. Howells will send from Europe 

 the results of his observations in travelling 

 through Europe ; Charles Dudley Warner 

 will contribute several of his characteristic 

 sketches, while both Longfellow and Haw- 

 thorne will be represented by a dramatic 

 poem and a novel, r-espectively, left by them 

 nearly completed. Besides all this the usual 

 variety of seiial and short stories, tssays, 

 poetry and reviews of current literature will 

 serve to keep the Atlantic, now in its fifty- 

 first volume, fully up to its regular standard 

 of excellence. 



Numbers 38 and 39 of the Humboldt Li- 

 brary, published by J. Fitzgerald tfeCo., New 

 York, present "Geological Sketches," by 

 Prof. Archibald Geikie, LL. D. Nothing can 

 be more interesting or instructive than these 

 sketches, and the publishers are to be credit- 

 ed with rare good judgment in the selection 

 of the articles they reprint from month to 

 month. 48 pages octavo, well printed, for 

 15c. 



The (j. S. Monthly WeatJier Review for No- 

 vember, 1882, has reached us in new and im- 

 proved form. It is now stiiched and bound 

 with a neat paper cover and trimmed. Even 

 the weather maps are fastened in, so that it 

 is some satisfaction to handle tne Reviezv. 

 If the Chief Signal Officer will now have the 

 the numbers t nclosed in envelopes, for mail- 

 ing, as are those of the Official Gazttte of the 

 Patent Office, instead of folding them, it 

 will be an additional improvement. 



W(p: observe that a weekly scien'ific maga- 

 zine after the style of Nature, and to be call- 

 ed Science is about to be started in Cambridge, 

 Mass., under the management of Prof. A. 

 Graham Bell, We wish it success and feel 

 sure from the character of the gentlemen 

 connected with it that it will occupy a high 

 position and maintain itself without resorting 

 to any such dishonorable praciice as its late 

 namesake of New York has done for a very 

 small consideration within the past year. 



