EDITORIAL NOTES. 
WE are promised the monthly summary of | 
the meteorological observations of the Kansas 
Weather Service by Prof. Lovewell, of Wash- 
burn College, Topeka. They will be made 
up especially for the Review, from the 20th 
of each month to the 20th of the next, so that 
we can give our readers, almost to the day of 
going to press, the results just tabulated from 
simultaneous observations made all over the 
State. Hitherto, we have received such a 
summary from both Professor Snow of Kan- 
sas, and Professor Nipher of Missouri; also, 
from Signal Service Observer C. A. Shaw 
of Wisconsin; but, as they did not reach us 
until after our day of publication, they had 
lost their interest to the genera! reader before 
the next issue. 
PROFESSOR PRITCHETT, of Morrison Ob- 
servatory, made us a brief call a few days 
since. He visited Kansas City to complete 
arrangements for establishing an electric time 
ball here. 
THE weather of November was exception- 
ally cold all over the country, but the reports 
from Colorado were almost incredible. On 
the 15th, at Denver, the mercury stood at 
—15°in the morning, and remained below zero 
all day ; at Leadville it reached —25° on the 
same day, and at Breckenridge —39°, an al- 
most unheard-of thing, for November, espe- 
cially. In this city, the lowest point reached 
was 6° above zero, on the morning of the 2ist. 
This is the coldest November weather remem- 
bered here since 1857, when the Missouri was 
frozen Over and navigation closed as early as 
the 20th. However, it lasted less than two 
weeks, after which the weather was so moder- 
ate that no ice was put up, and most of the 
time it was like April. 
_ THE fall meeting of the National Academy 
of Science, at New York, was a most success- 
ful one. About thirty papers were read by 
such scientists as Professors Marsh, Langley, 
Draper, Cope, Gibbs, Agassiz, Barker, Peirce, 
Rood, etc. 
WE are indebted to Principal J. W. Daw- 
son for copies of his recent articles on ‘¢ The 
Origin of Man” and * Revision of the Land 
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Snails of the Paleozoic Era,” published in 
the Princeton Review and American Journal of 
Sczence, respectively. 
THE State Agricultural College of Kansas is 
in a more thriving condition than ever before, 
owing, as we believe, mainly to the influence 
and efforts of such able and energetic men as 
President Fairchild, Professors Failyer and 
Popenoe, and others, who are widely known 
as able scientists and liberal minded and pro. 
gressive teachers. 
Major B. S. HENNING, well known to all 
Kansas and Kansas City people, writes from 
New York to say of the REVIEW that ‘‘its 
success is a great gratification to me, and I 
want tocheer you on in your good work.” 
On November 7th, Mr. Powers, of Lexing- 
ton, Ind., discovered, in a ravine near Eldo- 
rado, Kansas, a shoulder blade and tusk of 
an unknown monster, supposed, however, 
from the unusual shape of the latter, to belong 
not to the mastodon, but to the American 
elephant. 
A SHARP earthquake was experienced in 
Panama and in Callao, on the 15th Oct., at 
9:25 Pp. M. The shock was heavy. It lasted 
about eighteen seconds, commencing with a 
slight trembling and terminating with a mo- 
tion which frightened every one. No dam- 
age was done. 
SITKA advices, via Port Townsend, say that 
the town was visited by a severe cyclone and 
a heavy shock of an earthquake October 26th. 
Pror. R. H. THuRSTON, of the Stevens In- 
stitute of Technology, says of the REVIEW: 
‘¢J think the magazine an excellent journal 
of the class, and admire the manner in which 
it is conducted.” 
A LETTER received from Prof. Richard A. 
Proctor, the distinguished English astrono- 
mer, who is now in Australia, states that he 
will return to England by way of San Fran- 
cisco and New York, instead of going via the 
Indian Ocean, as was his previous intention. 
