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ethnology, demonstrating the existence of , every respect to any similar institution in the 
men before Adaia and making careful exam- | country. 
ination of their antiquity, conditions, peculiar- 
ities of race and distribution over the earth. The New York Daily Graphic says: The 
While written in popular style, it is based | Kansas City REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND IN- 
upon scientific facts which are everywhere | DUSTRY (Kansas City, Mo., press of Ramsey, 
quoted to support the conclusions drawn, | Millett & Hudson) for May is in several re- 
and history and literature as well are made | spects an advance upon many of its prede- 
to contribute to the writer’s theories.” cessors. The articles are all short and of 
| unusual simplicity and readableness for a 
On looking over the Proceedings of the | periodical of this kind. The table of con- 
Academy of Science of Davenport, Iowa, | tents includes five articles on geographical 
now one of the most flourishing and notable | subjects, the two most important of them 
societies in the west, we came across aa ac- | written for the ReviEw, viz: that on “ Ex- 
count of the tenth anniversary of its estab- | peditions to the Arctic Sea,” by Dr. John 
lishment, at which ‘‘twenty-five persons were | Rae, of London, and that on ‘‘The Second 
present.”” Quite encouraging to some of our | Howgate Expedition.”” The departments of 
own young Academy who feel discouraged | Psychology, Physics, Philosophy and Meteor- 
when at an ordinary monthly meeting no | ology contain original articles on appropri- 
more than fifty or sixty persons attend, The | ate topics. Professor F. W. Clarke’s ‘* Talk 
Davenport Academy is now nearly thirteen | Avout Lightning” should be largely read, 
years old; it has its own building, a fine | containing as it does knowledge needed by 
library and an extensive cabinet. Its publi- | everybody. The ‘Scientific Miscellany ” de- 
cations, finely printed and illustrated in the | partment is filled with carefully selected and 
best style of the art, would be creditable in | interesting matter. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
It seems to have become altogether a fixed thing for T. M. James & Sons, to 
put their latest importations of rich China and Queensware goods and artistic 
novelties on exhibition at the opening of each week and upon arrival of new 
invoices, and the frequency of such receipts affords our citizens many oppor- 
tunities to examine choice handiwork from abroad and emanating from the most 
celebrated patterns and embellished by the hands of eminent artists. To-day 
may be seen in the show windows of T. M. James & Sons a late importation of 
admirable qualities, and splendid display of hand painted vases of Ionic and 
Grecian shapes and decorated in the most pleasing manner in landscapes, sport- 
ing scenes and classic groups. These goods are very seasonable and their price 
is very low, considering their elegance, and will repay a close inspection and 
ought to find a place in a great number of households in our city and suburbs. 
Messrs. James & Sons are still in almost daily receipt of rich Chinaware elegant 
Glassware and a great variety of other goods requisite in their large trade. A 
visit to this great importing house is time profitably spent both in pleasure and 
economy of prices. 
