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coast on the morning of the 9th, the Earth 

 requiring seventeen hours more to turn the 

 Atlantic toward the forces that were to gen- 

 erate the storm." He asks as a favor that 

 " the movements of his great March storm 

 be carefully watched," which will be surely 

 done involuntarily if it is accompanied by the 

 terrible disturbances he predicts. To enable 

 our readers to grant the favor asked we pub- 

 lish elsewhere his letter to President Arthur, 

 dated November 25, 1882. 



Cryolite has been discovered of a fair 

 quality in El Paso County, Colorado, near 

 Pike's Peak. At present most of this miner- 

 al is brought from Greenland, and if future 

 developments prove the Colorado discovery 

 to be of any extent, it will be of considera- 

 ble value to the manufactures in which it is 

 employed. 



Capt. E. L. Berthoud, one of the valued 

 contributors and friends of the Review, has 

 been elected one of the board of trustees of 

 the Colorado State School of Mines. 



A Microscopical Society was organized in 

 Denver, on the 17th, with a number of char- 

 ter members. Prof. S. H. Short, of the Den- 

 ver University, was the principal originator 

 of the Society. 



Ernest Le Neve Foster has been ap- 

 pointed by the Governor as State Geologist 

 of Colorado. The appointment meets with 

 the hearty approval of the geologists of that 

 State. 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



Subscribers to the Review can be furnished 

 through this office with all the best magazines oj 

 the Country and Europe, at a discount of from 

 75" to 20 per cent off the retail price. 



In the course of an extended notice of the 

 Review, the editor of the Modern Argo ex- 

 presses the following flattering opinion : 

 " The general scope and high character of 

 this magazine places it on a level with the 



best of this kind of important and useful lit- 

 erature. It certainly is not only a credit to 

 its editor and proprietor, but is also a publi- 

 cation that is an honor to Kansas City. The 

 gauge of outside opinion is as often fixed by 

 the character of the publications a communi- 

 ty supports as by any other influence, and 

 for this reason, even if for no other, Col. 

 Case's magazine is worthy of the most liberal 

 support. The Review is now nearing its 

 seventh volume and its progress in keeping 

 up with modern thought and experiment in 

 its domain is a matter for congratulation." 



We have received the first number of 

 Science^ the new weekly periodical to which 

 we called attention in our last issue. It is an 

 octavo of twenty-eight pages printed in double 

 columns, and presents a very attractive ap- 

 pearance. Mr. Sam'l H. Scudder is the edi- 

 tor-in-chief, with several collaborators whose 

 initials, as appended to their notes, are more 

 or less familiar to the scientific reader. 

 Among the contributors of original articles 

 and critical notices of books are — ^Prof. S. P. 

 Langley, Capt. Geo. E. Belknap, U. S. N., 

 Samuel Kneeland, Prof. Asa Gray, and oth- 

 ers. Under the circumstances of its origina- 

 tion, its able editorial force and its pecuniary 

 backing it must certainly be a success and 

 become one of the necessities of the profes- 

 sional and popular reader. We were, in 

 view of our own short-comings, delighted, to 

 detect even one typographical error in its 

 columns. Cambridge, Mass.; ^5. 



'^'B.'K Acadian Scientist kindly says, "The 

 Kansas City Review is the popular science 

 monthly of the West, and seems to indicate 

 to a large degree the spirit of enterprise that 

 characterises our Western friends. We are 

 always sure of finding its columns filled with 

 able articles of scientific interest. 



The American Naturalist entered upon its 

 seventeenth year with the January numb&^ 

 and at the same time enlarged its dimensifons 

 by adding thirty pages of reading mattf-r and 

 taking in two new departments, Ph'/siology 

 and Psychology. 



