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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



J Dr. Edwin R. Heath, the noted South 

 American traveler and explorer whose ad- 

 Aresses before the Kansas City Academy of 

 'Sciences and whose articles in the Review 

 ■Tiave been received with so much pleasure 

 and instruction by Kansas City audiences 

 and readers, is now engaged in preparing ac- 

 counts of his labors for the American Geo-' 

 graphical Society and for Harper's Monthly 

 Magazine. 



Captain Antherne of the British Steamer 

 Stanmore, bears testimony to the value of oil 

 upon a violent sea, having recently reached 

 New York after a most stormy passage, dur- 

 ing which every other expedient was resorted 

 to ineffectually, and this with great success. 



The Linn^an Society, of New York, has 

 just published the first volume of its Trans- 

 actions in extremely attractive style, illustrat- 

 ed with a frontispiece portrait of Linnseas ; 

 Royal octavo, pp. i68, ;?3.oo. 



Owing to floods and other delays incident 

 to winter, the Atlantic, Harper, and Popular 

 Science Monthly, fox March, and several other 

 valuable exchanges were received too late for 

 notice. Even a casual examination, how- 

 ever, shows them to be fully up to their usual 

 standard of excellence. 



The total eclipse of the Sun which occurs 

 on May 6th, will only be visible during its 

 totalityr from two small islands in the South- 

 ern Paci'.fic Ocean, named respectively Flint 

 and Carol-ine. From these the totality of the 



eclipse will be seen to last almost five and 

 one-half minutes, which is within one and 

 one-half minutes of the greatest possible to- 

 tality. For this reason it will be a most not- 

 able event, and astronomers from all quart- 

 ers of the globe will visit these islands, pro- 

 bly more than doubling their present popu- 

 lation, which is limited to about thirty souls. 



Rev. E. Pepper, of Bradford, N. H., who 

 is a regular reader of the Review, writes to 

 a friend in this city, "I find much in it that 

 is fresh and interesting — improving— and a 

 little that is characteristic of modern world- 

 building. * * * * I have en- 

 joyed most of the articles in the Review. 

 They are suggestive and instructive. The 

 Review is a sure indication that other things 

 than money getting inspire the new West." 



Dr. D. G. Brinton, of Philadelphia, an- 

 nounces the publication of a series of volumes 

 to be known as the Library of Aboriginal 

 American Literature, of which the following 

 are the titles of those to appear first : The 

 Chronicles of the Mayas, Central American 

 Calendars, The Annals of Quanhtitlan, The 

 Synod of the Creeks and the Chronicles of 

 the Cakchiquels ; $2, each volume. 



Prof. E. Stone Wiggins explains that the 

 cause of his failure to correctly foretell a 

 storm on February gth, was that he " wrote 

 down eight days eleven hours astronomical 

 instead of calendar time which caused his 

 storm to strike the western coast of America 

 on the night of the 8th instead of the eastern 



