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THE lecture of President Laws on the eve-_ 
ning of the 22d, upon the Categories of 
Kant, was a clear, thoughtful and complete 
account of the philosophy of that wonderful 
metaphysician, with appropriate comments 
and just criticisms. It occupied the atten- 
tion of the audience for over an hour and a 
half without any evidence of weariness, and 
when the speaker closed his remarks he was 
warmly congratulated by numbers of those 
present. Asa lecture proper it was one of 
the most instructive and valuable of the 
course which it ended. 
THE REVIEW for July will contain, among 
other original articles, the paper, by Dr. I. 
D. Heath, upon ‘‘Orton and Peru;’ also 
one on the Ancient Mounds and Remains at 
Madisonville, Indiana, by the well known 
Archeologist of the Smithsonian Institution, 
Stephen Bowers, Esq., both of which will be 
especially attractive and interesting to all, 
readers. 
THROUGH inadvertence, we failed to notice 
the lecture of Rev. Richard Cerdley, D. D., 
before the Kansas City Academy of Science, 
on April 13. It was upon the subject of 
Patience in Culture and Investigation, which 
-was discussed in an able, discriminative and 
eloquent manner, worthy of the man and the 
occasion. It was expected that an abstract 
of the essay would be furnished for publica- 
tion, but we suppose Dr. Cordley’s well known 
modesty deterred him from doing this. 
WE are indebted to Rev. James Marvin, 
Chancellor of the University of Kansas, for 
an invitation to attend the examinations and 
Commencement exercises of that institution, 
between May 31st and June 9th. Railroad 
fares have been reduced, and everything will 
be done to render the occasion especially in- 
teresting to visitors. 
Columbia College has conferred upon Gen- 
eral Di Cesnola the honorary degree of LL. 
D., in token of appreciation of his eminent 
services in the cause of art. 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
THE closing and, Commencement exercises 
of the Missouri State University occupy the 
time from May 25th to June 3d. On Tues- 
day evening, June Ist, Gardiner Lathrop, A. 
M, LL. B, of this city, will deliver the 
annual address before the literary societies. 
This, as well as the other exercises, will be of 
a most interesting character. 
ITEMS FROM THE PERIODICALS. 
THE June number of The North American 
Review contains ‘Popular Fallacies about 
Russia,” by E. W. Stoughton, ex-Minister to 
Russia; ‘‘Divorces in New England,” by 
Dr. Nathan Allen; ‘*McClellan’s Last Ser- 
vice to the Republic,” by George Ticknor 
Curtis; ‘‘ Has the Southern Pulpit Failed 2” 
by Rev. Dr. F. A. Shoup; ‘Caste at West 
Point, by P. S. Michie, Professor of Philoso- 
phy at West Point; and ‘Some Interesting 
Publications,” by M. W. Hazeltine. This 
number closes the CXXXth volume and six- 
ty-fifth year of the Aevzew, During the last 
few years, this magazine has made a most re- 
markable advance in popular favor, Many 
of its numbers have passed through several 
editions, and its permanent circulation has 
increased more than six-fold. All the best 
papers of the country speak of it in the 
highest terms. 
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According to the astronomical notes from 
Vassar College observatory in the Sczendzfic 
American, a large and densely black spot sur- 
rounded by the usual gray bordering and ac- 
companied by others of smaller size, may be 
looked for early in June upon the eastern 
limb of the sun. 
Good Company, for June, has its usual quo- 
ta of good things, and in addition a very 
readable article by S. J. Douglass, on Science 
in High Latitudes, which, in view of the 
present interest felt in the second Howgate 
expedition, is very appropriate. 
The American Bookseller says Winchell’s 
Preadamites (S. C. Griggs & Co.) ‘‘is an 
elaborate and deeply interesting study of 
