O76 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
ON THE ORIGIN OF SpeciIES: By Thomas H. Huxley, F. R. S., F. L. S., pp. 26, 
Quarto. J. Fitzgerald & Co., New York, 1880, 15¢. 
This re-print of the six lectures of Prof. Huxley, on the causes of the phenom- 
ena of organic nature, makes up Number Sixteen of the well-known and popular 
Humboldt Library. No more interesting lectures were ever delivered, and whether 
one agrees with the author in all of his conclusions or not, he cannot help being 
attracted and instructed by the graceful style and multitude of facts presented. 
To those who want such works in a cheap form, the Humboldt Library offers 
a tempting prize. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Annual Report and Statistics of the Meteorology and Mortality of the City 
of Oakland, California, by J. B. Trembly, M. D.; Longevity, No. 15 Humboldt 
Library series, J. Fitzgerald & Co., New York; Abridgement of the Nautical 
Almanac for 1881, Riggs & Bro., Phila.; Maritime Meteorology, by Thompson 
B. Maury, Phila.; Quarterly Botanical Index, L. B. Case, Richmond, Ind. ; 
Anthony Republican, A. S. Lyndsay, Anthony, Ks.; Weekly Herald, Dr. Stephen 
Bowers, Clinton, Wis. 
The Literary Mews, published by F. Leypoldt, New York, will be found a 
most useful periodical to all persons desirous of keeping up with the literary prog- 
ress of the day, or who require assistance in building up either private or public 
libraries. 
METEOROLOGY. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT WASHBURN COLLEGE 
TOPEKA, KANSAS. 
PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL. 
From November 20 to December 20, 1880, the period embraced in this report, 
has been characterized by a continuance of the cold, dry weather which prevailed 
in the first twenty days of November. By reference to the tables below, it will 
be seen, that during the last ten days the temperature has averaged more than ten 
degrees higher than in the two decades previous. ‘The relative humidity has also 
been greater and the barometric pressure lesss The temperature has fallen below 
zero but once—December 6th, when it was -03°. This followed the night after a 
violent gale of wind which blew from the NW. for five hours, with a velocity of 
nearly fifty miles per hour. The same storm brought snow in many other places 
