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ing Magazine for July 1880, closes as follows: 
‘Tt is evident Mr. Edison’s lamp, as now 
made, does not escape the enormous loss 
which has heretofore been encountered by all 
forms of incandescent electric lamps.”’ 
ProFessors Edward M, Shepard, of Drury 
College, Springfield, Mo., and Charles H. 
Ford, of the State Normal School, Kirks- 
ville, Mo., have decided to hold a Summer 
School of Biology at Springfield, Mo., be- 
ginning the first day of July, and continuing 
not less than six weeks. 
Two Lectures will be given each day, 
accompanied by laboratory work in dissec- 
tion, use of microscope, etc. Occasional 
excursions will be made into the surrounding 
country and on the James River, which will 
afford fine opportunities for scientific re- 
search, 
By the kindness of the authorities of 
Drury College, the College building—includ- 
ing lecture rooms, laboratory and boarding 
hall, as well as the library, apparatus and 
collections—will be at the service of the 
students. Access will also be given to the 
collections of the Packard Natural History 
Society, and to the private libraries of the 
instructors. 
Mr. Shepard will instruct in the depart- 
ments of Invertebrate Zoology and Crypto- 
gamic Botany. 
Mr, Ford will have charge of Vetebrate 
and Phenogamic Botany. 
ProFeEssors S. H. Trowbridge, H. S. 
Pritchett and T. Berry Smith have inaugu- 
rated a Summer School of Science in Pritchett. 
Institute, Glasgow, Mo. The object of this 
School is to afford students of the State an 
opportunity of studying science by observing 
some of the facts and phenomena on which 
it rests, and by a free use of illustrative 
specimens and apparatus. The school com- 
menced on Monday, June 28th, and continues 
six weeks. It will embrace three depart- 
ments, viz: 1, Geology and Natural His- 
tory; 2, Astronomy; 3, Chemistry and 
Physics. 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 
THE reader who is curious to obtain an 
inside view of Prince Bismarck’s character as 
the genius of Statecraft, will find much to 
interest him ina paper contributed to the 
North Review for July, by the 
great Chancellor’s Boswell, Moritz Busch, 
entitled, ‘‘ Bismarck as a Friend of America 
Other articles in the 
same number of the Review are ‘‘ Canada 
and the United States,’ by Prof. Goldwin 
Smith: ‘* The Exodus of Israel,’”’ by Presi- 
dent S. C. Bartlett,—a defense of the Penta- 
teuchal account in the light of modern 
research; ‘‘ The Evglish House of Lords,” 
by J. E. Thorold Rogers, M. P.; ‘‘The 
Ethics of Sex,” by Miss M. A. Hardaker,— 
a calm, philosophical study of the woman 
question ; ‘‘ The Panama Canal,” by Count 
de Lesseps; and ‘‘Profligacy in Fiction,” by 
Exo 15 IIS, 
American 
and as a Statesman.”’ 
THE leading article in the Boston Journal 
of Chemzstry for June is entitled ‘‘Shall we 
bolt our food,” and is a digest of the views of 
several physiologists, who argue in favor of 
swallowing our food whole, and in opposi- 
tion to the long-trusted theory of eating slow- 
ly and chewing the food thoroughly; on the 
ground that the finely masticated food passes 
out of the stomach before it is fully prepared 
for the next process in digestion. 
THE ‘Studies in Comparative Phrenolo- 
gy,” found in the Phrenological Journal for 
July are very interesting and will repay care- 
ful reading. 
AN elaborate article in the London TZeé- 
graphic Journal upon the value and impor- 
tance of ‘‘ Varley’s Electric Time Ball” on 
the dome of the West Strand telegraph office 
prompts the enquiry what has become of the 
project of establishing a similar signal at the 
Kansas City Union Depot, as proposed by 
Prof. C. W. Pritchett, of the Morrison 
Observatory, last spring. 
THE Gardeners’ Monthly, edited by the 
well-known scientist, Thomas Meehan, is a 
periodical that every professional gardener 
and agriculturist needs, and all amateurs 
will find it of the greatest value. 
