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logical, Archaeological, Astronomical and Smithsonian Reports, also Explora 

 tions, Surveys, Geological Reports from various States, besides monographs and 

 pamphlets in large numbers. This library is now placed on the Hst of exchanges 

 at the various departments in Washington and will receive as they are issued all 

 of the most important publications of all of them. 



Its cabinets now comprise nearly two thousand specimens of minerals, fossils 

 and archaeological relics, all of which are preserved at its rooms on the third floor 

 of the Diamond Building at the junction of Main and Delaware Streets. 



The present officers of the Kansas City Academy of Science, are Hon. R. 

 T. Van Horn, President; W. H. Miller, Vice-President; Dr. R. W. Brown, Re- 

 cording Secretary; Theo. S. Case, Corresponding Secretary, S. D. Bowker, M. 

 D., Treasurer, and S. J. Hare, Curator and Librarian; Executive Committee, 

 Hon. R. T. VanPIorn, Prof. Geo. Halley, M. D., Prof. T. J. Eaton, M. D., 

 Major B. M. Woodson, and Rev. J. D. Parker, U. S. A. 



Its evenings for regular meetings are the last Tuesday of each n?onth, except 

 in Summer. 



THE KANSAS CITY INSTITUTE. 



This organization is now about one year old and has made a rapid and 

 liealthy growth under the management, mainly, of Judge E. P. West, its Curator. 

 In addition to the ordinary work of scientific societies the Institute is paying at- 

 tention to the cultivation of art in this community and has given two pubUc exhibi- 

 tions at which such specimens were among the chief attractions. At the exhibi- 

 tion of the collection in the Museum of the Kansas City Institute, on the even- 

 ing of February loth, the works of art were as follows : 



Miss Vaughn, two paintings, namely — "Kansas City in 1867," and "Black- 

 Hawk's Pulpit." 



Mr. W. W. Findlay, four paintings, namely — "Conway Meadows," "Win- 

 ter," "Summer/' by Colby; and " Waldeinsamheit," by Langben. 



Mr. Ruggles, nine paintings, namely — " Coast on Boston Bay," "Scene near 

 ■Concord, N. H. ," "Pueblo Indian Shepherd," "Mid-Ocean," three portraits 

 taken from life and two fruit studies. 



Mr. Campbell, four paintings, namely — "Beatrice," "Holy Family," after 

 Raphael, " Portrait of Major Rollins," after Bingham, and " A Landscape." . 



Miss Vaughn and Mr. Campbell are well known in the city as artists of 

 merit. Mr. Campbell is widely known in the East and maintains there a high 

 reputation as a scuptor and designer. Mr. Ruggles is not so well known here, 

 having been in the city less than seven months, but judging from his work on 

 exhibition he will soon attain an enviable position among the artists of the coun- 

 try. 



In Palaeontology there were over 1200 upper coal measure fossils (our home 

 formation) including specimens collected along the Missouri River from Omaha, 



