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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
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A most important bill has just passed both 
houses of Congress, appropriating all the pro- 
ceeds derived from the sales of public lands 
hereafter, to educational purposes. For the 
first ten years the funds are to be distributed 
on the basis of illiteracy, after that on the 
basis of population. The bill devotes thirty 
per cent to the higher education. Congress 
passed the bill without dissent, and it will 
undoubtedly become a law asit is in full accord 
with the genius of the American people and 
the spirit of the age. And there is true wis- 
dom shown in carrying forward the higher and 
common school education far passu, as they 
are mutually dependent on each other—the 
common schools sending forward students 
prepared for the higher grades, while the 
colleges and training schools return text-books 
and teachers. 
THE Royal Geographical Society is consid- 
ering the advisability of fitting out another 
Arctic expedition, not, however, with the de- 
sign of making another attempt to reach the 
North Pole. It is to be devoted to an ex- 
amination of the accessible polar regions, in 
the interest of science, and for the elucida- 
tion of certain questions in the physical 
geography of the globe. 
Tue Emperor William, of Germany, has 
been, during the last year, earning the grati- 
tude of the archeologists. | He has defrayed 
from his own private purse the expenses of the 
excavations at Olympia. 
A MonsIEuR LOITEL has been recently 
dredging in the Sea of Galilee. It has a 
depth of 800 feet and contains twelve species 
of fish. The majority of these species have 
the singular habit of hatching their eggs and 
sheltering their young in their mouths. 
Dr. JNo. RAE, F. G. S., the noted Arctic 
explorer of England, says in a note dated 
Nov. 11, 1880, ‘‘ I read many articles in your 
REVIEW with much pleasure.” 
ITEMS FROM THE PERIODICALS. 
THE Atlantic Monthly numbers the ablest 
and best American writers among its contribu- 
tors.—Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Low- 
ell, Stedman and other renowned poets; Mrs. 
Stowe, Howells, Aldrich, James, Bishop, Rose 
Terry Cooke, Miss Woolson and other admi- 
rable writers of novels and short stories; W. 
W. Story, Norton, Warner Waring, and other 
skillful writers of travel and foreign life; 
Whipple, Fiske, Perry, Miss Preston and 
other careful and discriminating critics. 
Since January, 1880, Zhe Atlantic has been 
printed in new and larger type, on a larger 
page, and each number increased to contain 
one hundred and forty-four pages. 
The number for February, will have an in- 
teresting and important article on German 
Credit-Unions, and a noteworthy paper on 
American Shipbuilding. Mr. John Fiske will 
contribute the first of his essays on our Ary- 
an Ancestors; and Major Ben. Perley Poore 
an interesting chapter of his Reminiscences 
of Washington. There will be installments 
of Miss Phelps’s and Mr. James’s stories, and 
a short story, with the usual variety of essays, 
criticisms and poems. 
THE Manufacturer and Builder, of New 
York, enters upon its thirteenth volume with 
the January number, and, under the editore 
ship of Prof. W. H. Wahl has become one of 
the best journals of the class in this country. 
Monthly, 24 pages quarto, $2.00 per annum. 
