KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The present number concludes the sixth 

 volume of the Review, and again we tender 

 our thanks to our subscribers for their sup- 

 port and their frequently expressed apprecia- 

 tion of our efforts to instruct and enter'ain 

 them. We are also indebted to our contrib- 

 utors for their unremunerated assistance in 

 maintaining the character of the Review for 

 originality and ability. We have at all times 

 endeavored to give prominence to Western 

 discoveries, inventions and theories, and up- 

 on looking over the back numbers we are 

 quite surprised at the extent and value of 

 this kind of matter we have secured and giv- 

 en to the public. Not less than 1,200 pages 

 have been written by Missouri contributors 

 and devoted to the material interests of this 

 State ; nearly 1,000 by Kansas writers upon 

 subjects connected with the advancement of 

 the scientific and commercial interests of that 

 State and nearly 500 by scientists of Colora- 

 do upon her mining and metallurgical inter- 

 ests. All of the other Western States have 

 been represented by original articles upon 

 industrial or other important practical sub- 

 jects, while the Central and even the Eastern 

 States have been frequently heard from 

 through their best thinkers and writers. 



The Review has succeeded in gaining a 

 standing among the standard periodicals of 

 the country, which is highly creditable both 

 to the community whence its principal sup- 

 port comes and to the character of the arti- 

 cles published. 



It is, however, again necessary and proper 

 to call the attention of the friends of popular 

 science and education to the fact that the 

 Review is not even yet upon a self supporting 

 basis, and to ask their aid in establishing it 

 on so firm a footing that the tax upon its 

 editor and publisher will only fall upon his 

 time and energies, and not upon his pocket 

 also, as heretofore. The magazine is one of 

 the recognized factors in the general advanc- 



mentof this region and consequently deserves 

 the support of all classes of citizens. 



The Kansas City Academy of Science has 

 given its regular monthly entertainments 

 during the past winter, which have in most 

 cases been fairly attended. The lecture by 

 Rev. Doctor C. L. Thompson upon " The 

 Science of Religion " was repeated by re- 

 quest on the last Tuesday of February 

 and was enthusiastically received. That of 

 Professor George Halley, M. D., upon '< Pris- 

 ons and Prisoners," owingtothe threatening 

 weather and the multiplicity of other enter- 

 tainments on last Tuesday, was postponed un- 

 til a more favorable occasion. The' writer 

 hereof has had the privilege of hearing a 

 great portion of it read and can testify to its 

 originality and worth. There will be two 

 more meetings this spring — the last Tuesdays 

 of April and May respectively. The latter 

 named evening is the occasion of the Eighth 

 Anniversary of the Academy, when an ad- 

 dress by the President upon the progress of 

 Science may be expected. 



Prof. F. F. Hilder, of St. Louis, recent- 

 ly delivered a lecture before the Davenport 

 (Iowa) Academy of Sciences upon " The Art 

 Wonders of Ancient Egypt." As Professor 

 Hilder spent several years as a civil engineer 

 and interpreter in the service of the Egyp- 

 tian Government, his opportunities for acquir- 

 ing intimate knowledge of his subject were 

 exceptionally good and the lecture was large- 

 ly attended. 



The mistake of 1000 years in our state- 

 ment of Wiggins' prophecy in the March 

 Review, though made without collusion 

 with him, will probably, in view of the results 

 March 9th to llth, be regarded by him as a 

 saving clause, and will be adopted as the 

 true text by his adherents. 



