190 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
view. It is folded and bound in paper so that it can readily be sent by mail or 
carried in the pocket. Mr. Wright is the pioneer in the kind of thing here for 
which he deserves credit. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Programme of the International Congress to be held at Brussels, Belgium, 
August 22-29, translated by M. Maurice Defosse for Bureau of Education, De- 
partment of the Interior; Lists of Volumes and parts of volumes of educational 
periodicals wanted to complete the files in the library of the Bureau of Education, 
by Hon. Jno. Eaton, Commissioner; Seventh Annual Catalogue of Officers and 
Students of Hardin College, Mexico, Mo., 1880; Report of the Board of Com- 
missioners of the Seventh Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1879, pp. 400, octavo; 
Prospectus of the Monte Christo Gold Mining Co., of Chicago, with charter and 
by-laws, 1879 ; The Campaign in Missouri and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, 1861, 
a paper read before the Missouri Historical Society of St. Louis, March, 1880, 
by Col. Wm. M. Wherry, U. S. A., pp. 18, 8vo.; Annual Report and Statistics 
of the Meteorology and Mortality of the City of Oakland, Cal., for the year 
1879, J. B. Trembley, M. D., pp. 14, 8vo.; The School Bulletin Year Book, for 
1880, an Educational Directory of the State of New York, compiled by C. W. 
Bardeen, with map of the State. Davis, Bardeen & Co., Syracuse, New York, 
$1; The Graphic, Eureka, Kansas, weekly, H. H. Clark, editor, $1.50 per an- 
num; The Jewel/ County Review, Mankato, Kansas, weekly, L. D. Reynolds, $1 
per annum; The Cotton Planters’ and Manufacturer's Journal, Little Rock, Ark., 
monthly, Coleman & Co., $1; The Wilmington, Ohio, Journal, weekly, Vernon 
& Tudor, $1.50 per annum. 
SCIENTIFIC MISCEEEANY: 
THE SAN JUAN REGION. 
Leaving the Narrow Gauge at Alamosa, the terminus of the main line of the 
Denver and Rio Grande road, the tourist or miner can mount a ‘‘burro” or 
take a stage to the various camps of Silver San Juan—to Lake City, 115 miles, 
or to Silverton, 140 miles, visiting Rio Grande, sixty-nine miles distant, by the 
way, and thence pursue his way across the Range to the Dolores River country, 
fifty or more miles beyond Silverton, and northward to Ouray. 
These names are all familiar to Colorado miners, and they have proved very 
attractive. A little less than a year ago, carbonate ore was discovered on the 
Dolores River, and that section has ever since been the goal of numerous pros- 
pectors. Poughkeepsie Gulch, Rico, the San Miguel, Animas Forks, and 
Mineral Point are also more or less famous; and the outlook for the coming year 
