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institutions, or that any of the idolatries or superstitions of the Israelites were 
derived from Egyptian sources, and sustains his position on this point ably. The 
book will be found most interesting and instructive to the best scholars as well as 
to merely popular readers. 
OTHER. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Laboratory Notes from the University of Cincinnati, by Prof. F. W. Clarke 
and some of the members of his classes. —Studies of the Food of Birds, Insects 
and Fishes, made at the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, at Normal, 
Ill., by S. A. Forbes, Director.—History of the Leavenworth Z7zmes, by D. R. 
Anthony, proprietor.—Indications of Character in the Head and Face.  Illus- 
trated. By H. S. Drayton, A. M. Fowler & Wells, publishers, New York. 
15c.—Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Marietta College, Ohio, 1880-81. 
—Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Public Schools 
for Dependent Children, 1880: by Lyman P. Alden, Superintendent.—Circular 
of the State School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 1880-81.—Hamilton College, 
Sixty-ninth Annual Catalogue of Officers and Students, 1880-81, from Prof. Oren 
Root, Jr., Ass’t Professor of Mathematics. 
SGI IN es UO MOL Cie ALAIN, 
KANSAS SCIENTIFIC SURVEY. 
PROF. J. D. PARKER, KANSAS CITY, MO. 
The Kansas Academy of Science, at their November meeting, appointed a 
Commission to memorialize the Legislature in reference to a State Scientific 
Survey. Two preliminary surveys under Profs. Mudge and Swallow have already 
been made. A considerable amount of work has also been done, under the auspices 
of the Academy of Science, whose results need to be gathered up and put in 
permanent form. The Academy of Science has nearly completed a determina- 
tion of the plants of the State, a large amount of the work having been prosecuted 
by that veteran botanist, Prof. Carruth, without any remuneration. In the pro- 
posed survey would it not be most fitting to place the necessary means in the 
hands of Prof. Carruth to complete his determination of the flora of Kansas and 
prepare a herbarium of the plants of the State, as complete as may be possible, to 
be placed in the Capitol building? This work would form the crown of a life 
devoted with singular disinterestedness to scientific pursuits, and Kansas would 
honor a citizen worthy of being remembered. A complete herbarium of the 
plants of the State placed in the Capitol, would be a treasure which few States. 
possess. 
Prof. Mudge accomplished before his death a large amount of geological 
work for Kansas. The Mudge Cabinet, bestowed with princely liberality upon 
