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few men are as well calculated to prepare suitable statistics for the reading immi- 
grant as Major Hudson. 
PROCEEDINGS OE THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, Part I, 
April to September, 1880: Octavo, pp. 352. 
This volume is unusually full of articles based on original work and investi- 
gation by the members of this, one of the oldest academies in the United States. 
Among them we find the well-known names of Professors Leidy, Rand, Lewis, 
Meehan, Jefferis, Drs. Chapman, Hartman, Allen, etc., etc. 
ATTI DELLA SOCIETA TOSCANA DI SCIENZE NATURALI, Residente in Pisa. 
We have before us the 4th volume of the Transactions of the Tuscan Society 
for the Natural Sciences of Pisa. It is taken up with the discussion of pure 
science, or such topics as can only interest specialists. Among the numerous 
subjects presented, we notice Fossils of the Lower Lias of the Central Appen- 
nines ; Chemical Study of Heulandite and Stilbite; Action of Heat on the Mix- 
ture of Iso-butyrate and Formate of Calcium; New Fossil Teeth of the Notidanus. 
Histological Study of the Complementary Sexual Organs of some terrestial 
Mollusks; Odlitic Fossils of Mount Pastello in the Province of Verona; Pliocene 
Fossils of the Echinodermi, etc., etc. These papers are beautifully illustrated, 
and as specimens of typography and lithography can scarcely be equaled. The 
Transactions of this Italian society will be perused with intense interest by all 
specialists in the study of Natural Science. ane 
MED ROR@OLOGN: 
KANSAS WEATHER SERVICE—STATION, TOPEKA. 
OBSERVER, PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL. 
The meteorological record herewith submitted is for the month beginning 
October zoth and ending November 2oth. The tables below present the sum- 
mary by decades, as well as the mean daily average for the whole period of thirty- 
one days. 
It will be noticed that the temperature of the second decade in November is 
much lower than the two previous decades. The rainfall has been very light, 1,83, 
inches, and no snow, except enough to whiten the ground, on the 16th. 
The prevailing winds have been northwest and north. Brilliant solar and lunar 
halos were seen on the 18th. ‘The barometric readings are reduced to sea level 
and zero temperature. The highest barometer occurred November 17th, when 
the record was 30.65. The lowest was 29.70,0n the 9th. The highest tempera- 
ture occurred October 26th, 74°, and the lowest November 18th, 3°. 
