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and handsome green, tbe latter color being 

 due to the oxidation of the copper. 



The U. S. Signal Officer, at St. Louis, pre- 

 dicts that the current of the Mississippi Riv- 

 er will cut its way into the Atchafalaya Ba- 

 you within a year or two and make that the 

 main channel from the mouth of the Red 

 River to the Gulf. This will shorten the 

 line to the Gulf about 200 miles, but as the 

 cities along the present course and Captain 

 Eads will (decidedly object to the change, it is 

 likely that such steps as we suggested last 

 season will be adopted to prevent the change 

 and at the same time allow of the overflow in 

 very high water from the Mis issippi through 

 the Atchafalaya Bayou to the Gulf and thus 

 save the country below the mouth of the Red 

 River. 



The National Academy of Science will 

 hold its regular annual meetiug next month. 

 A larger attendance than usual is anticipated, 

 as the members of the Academy will be in- 

 vited to participate in the ceremonies attend- 

 ant upon the unveiling of the statue of (he 

 late Prof. Henry, for many years in charge of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. The 19th of 

 April has been selected as the time for the 

 ceremony, and in deference to the simplicity 

 that characterized the life of the deceased, the 

 details of the occasion will not be elaborate, 

 but will consist of an oration by President 

 Noah Porter, of Yale College. The statue is 

 the work of W. W. Story, whom Congress 

 specially named in the law appropriating 

 $15,000 for it. Besides the members of the 

 National Academy, President Arthur and his 

 Cabinet and committees representing Con- 

 gress, as well as other distinguished persons, 

 will be present. The figure is of bronze, sev- 

 en feet high, and represents t^ elate Professor 

 standing in a meditative attitude, one hand 

 resting upon a support, the whole effectively 

 and gracefully draped in an academic gown. 

 The pedestal is of red beach granite, and the 

 base and top of Quincy gray granite. The 

 red granite is polished and bears upon its 

 surface, in clear-cut Roman letters, the sim- 

 ple inscription '-Joseph Henry." 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



Subscribers to the Review can be furnished 

 through this affice with all the best magazines oj 

 the Country and Europe, at a discount of from 

 /y to 20 per cent off the retail price. 



We have received Harper^s Monthly for 

 April, also the latest numbers of the Weekly 

 and the Bazar. Without entering into de- 

 tails, we cannot avoid calling attention to the 

 constant improvements being made in each 

 of these periodicals, not only in literary mat- 

 ter but in engravings, printing and general 

 style. The editors of these magazines seem 

 to have no idea of ceasing their progressive 

 efforts, though the public have regarded 

 them as nearly perfect for a long time. 



We learn frorti "Notei and News" in 

 Science of March i6th, that the American 

 Archaeological Institute of America, at Bos- 

 ton, has about 80 life and 220 annual mem- 

 bers, and besides its Reports and its papers, 

 has commenced the publication of a Bulletin 

 giving the full reports of its agents in Greece, 

 New Mexico, Cyprus, the Troad, etc. 



The contents of the Popular Science Month- 

 ly for April are as follows : Nature and 

 Limits of the Science of Politics, by I rofesior 

 Sheldon Amos, LL.D. The Economic Func- 

 tion of Vice, by John McElroy. Progress of 

 the Backboned Family, by A. B. Buckley, 

 (Illustrated). Curiosities of Superstition, HI, 

 by Felix L. Oswald M. D. Perceptional In- 

 sanities, by Dr. W. A. Hammond. Dwarfs 

 and Giants, by M. Delboeuf. The Census 

 and the Forests, by N. H. Egleston. Origin 

 of the Donkey, by C. A. Pietrement. Spec- 

 ulations on the Nature of Matter, by Henry 

 H. Bates, M. A. The Legal Status of Serv- 

 ant Girls, by Oliver E. Lyman. The New 

 York Geological Survey, by James Hall, LL. 

 D. The Origin of the Calendar and Astrolo- 

 gy, by Professor W. Foester. Sketch of In- 

 crease Allen Lapham, LL. D., (With Por- 

 trait); Correspondence; Editor's Table; Lit- 

 erary Notices; Popular Mis:ellany; Notes. 



