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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
3832, 
DORA IN © Ss: 
A LETTER has been received from Prof. E. 
A. Popenoe, Secretary of the Kansas Acade- 
my of Science, in reference to the coming 
annual meeting, which will be held at Tope- 
ka the second week in November. The 
academy has sustained severe losses in its 
membership in the removal by death of Profs. 
Mudge, Bardwell, Fraser and Kedzie, all of 
whom have been enthusiastic workers in the 
society. From the very first Prof. Mudge 
had sustained the most active relations to the 
academy. He was the first and last President, 
and his papers have nearly all been based on 
original observation, and have formed the 
most valuable acquisitions to science. Such 
men are good enough for any age or country, 
and make the world better by living in it. 
The academy feels the loss of these active 
workers severely, but is hoping to have a 
successful meeting at Topeka, and to send 
forth a creditable volume of Transactions next 
spring. The committee on programme will 
be glad to hear from scientific men in the 
State, who have anything new to offer in the 
way of observations or investigations. 
THE Boston meeting of the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
is spoken of by all returning members, as 
well as by many of the scientific magazines, 
as a most interesting and enjoyable one and 
will long be remembered with pleasure by 
those who were present. 
THE Missouri River Improvement Asso- 
ciation held a meeting in this city on Sept. 
21st and 22d, which was attended by dele- 
gates from Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, 
the object being to arouse an interest in the 
matter of increased facilities for transport- 
ing the products of the New West to mar- 
_ket and to obtain congressional assistance. 
Many of the very best business men of these 
States were present, and doubtless their action 
will have the final effect desired. The rail- 
roads have opened the country, but are unable 
to do all the freighting. This movement is not 
intended to injure them, nor is it a local 
matter. The whole Northwest is interested 
in the movement, from Fort Benton to St. 
Louis. Col. R. T. Van Horn was elected 
permanent President,and W. H. Miller, Secre- 
tary, with Vice-Presidents from all the prom-. 
inent cities of the above named States. 
AN observer need go no farther than the 
the Kansas City and Bismarck Fairs to learn. 
by their immense exhibits of minerals, cere- 
als, vegetables, animals and machinery, what 
this region of country is doing in this stage 
of the world’s history, while such exhibits. 
of fossils as those of Professor Snow at Bis- 
marck, and of Sidney Hare, here, tell the 
story of animal or vegetable life in the re- 
mote past, before man’s influence upon pass- 
ing events was felt. 
Pror. T. BERRY SMITH, who has furnished 
several good articles for the REVIEW within 
the past year, has received the position of 
Professor of Natural Science, etc., in the 
Louisiana, (Mo.,) College. Besides being 
an excellent teacher, Prof. Berry is a writer 
of ability and taste. 
Rev. Mr. Carb, general agent for Adams’ 
Synchronological Chart of history, which is 
described in full on page 378 of this issue of 
the REVIEW, has concluded to make Kansas 
City his home hereafter, and to devote 
himself to building up a general subscrip- 
tion book business. He has other val- 
uable works, and expects to employ a num- 
ber of agents both in the city and the sur- 
rounding country. 
WE are in receipt of the Proceedings of 
the Saratoga meeting of the American Asso-. 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
published by Permanent Secretary, Prof. 
F. W. Putnam. This volume, comprisins- 
