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Major J. W. PowE Lt, Chief of the Bureau 
of Ethnology, has gone to the Pacific Coast 
to ascertain in person how this work is pro- 
gressing. He has eight parties in the field, en- 
gaged in making a study of the North Amer- 
ican Indians—their condition, their habits 
of life, their languages, their history, etc., as 
well as taking a census of them. One of 
Major Powell’s parties has just discovered, 
in New Mexico and Arizona, a number of old 
ruins and pueblos. These are now being 
carefully explored. In New Mexico they 
have discovered, west of Santa Fe, the largest 
collection of ruins ever found on this continent. 
W. H. Simpson, Secretary of the University 
of Kansas, says: ‘‘Our roll now shows 394 
students, of whom 15 are from our sister 
State, Missouri. Never before was the Insti- 
tution so prosperous and seemingly so thor- 
oughly appreciated by the people generally. 
We are just beginning to be known and felt.” 
Mr. H. R. Hitton’s able and suggestive 
paper on The Rainfall inits Relation to Kan- 
sas Farming, read before the Kansas Acad- 
emy of Science last month, is one that should 
have a wide circulation in those eastern pa- 
pers that nowadays only publish articles on the 
arid soil and the famine-stricken people of 
Western Kansas. 
WE have had on our exchange list since its 
commencement that very interesting and val- 
uable scientific journal, the Kansas City RE- 
YIEW, and we take this special occasion for 
urging upon our western readers the propriety 
of supporting, by their subscription, a journal 
that embraces so much interesting material, 
and isso creditable a medium for the exchange 
of scientific intelligence. —Wew Remedies, Nov. 
1880. 
WE have received a copy of Rowell’s News- 
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tiously say that, in our judgment, it is the 
most complete, correct and comprehensive 
work of the kind ever published in the United 
States. 
THE funeral cf the late Prof. J. C. Watson, 
Astronomer at the Wisconsin University, who 
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died on Noy. 23:3, took place at Ann Arbor 
on the 26th. The will of the deceased as- 
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to the National Academy of Science of the 
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gold medals to the value of one hundred dol- 
lars be given to those who shall from time to 
time make astronomical discoveries, or pro- 
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ward as contributors to science. 
Prof. F. V. HAYDEN, the geologist, has 
just received a cablegram from the president 
of the Topographical Society of Paris, an- 
nouncing that the society had conferred on 
him the grand medal of honor. 
THE recent earthquake shocks in British 
Columbia were very viol.nt. Glaciers were 
split from base to summit, and great masses 
cast into the valleys and creeks, completely 
filling them up. 
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THE Popular Screntific Monthly for Decem- 
ber presents the following choice array of 
valuablematter: The Development of Politi- 
cal Institutions, and Political Organization 
in General, by Herbert Spencer. Science 
and Culture, by Prof. T. H. Huxley, F. R.S. 
Experiments with the ‘‘ Jumpers” of Maine, 
by George M. Beard, M. D. The August 
Meteors, by W. F. Denning. (lIllustrated.) 
The Early Practice of Medicine by Women, 
by Prof. H. Carrington Bolton, Ph. D. 
Methods in Industrial Education, by Prof. 
S. P. Thompson. The Migrationsof Fishes, 
by Dr. Friedrich Heincke. Domestic Mo- 
tors. I. Wind and Water Power. By Chas- 
M. Lungren. (Illustrated.) Indigestion as 
a Cause of Nervous Depression, by T. Lauder 
Brunton, M. D., F. R. S. Oriental Music, 
by S. Austen Pearce, Mus. D., Oxon. The 
Sabbath, I. By Prof. John Tyndall, F. R. S. 
Sketch of Professor Dumas, by A. W. Hof- 
