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value in the field of Natural History in America and their continuance is greatly 
to be hoped for in the interest of science.”’ 
In addition to this both LeConte 
and Horn have described several of the new species for the Kansas Academy 
of Science, an honor never before granted to Kansas. 
The University does well to encourage scientific research, and the State 
should feel proud of the men who are bringing Kansas to the front in the realm 
of science. 
nent in the company. 
Professors B. F. Mudge, F. H. Snow and G. E. Patrick are promi- 
Prof. Mudge has ceased his labors, but the others are 
carrying the work on with enthusiasm that has and will merit success.— Lawrence 
Journal. 
DUT ORI, IN OWS, 
SINCE the last regular meeting of the Kan- 
sas City Academy of Science our citizens 
have had the rare pleasure of a lecture by 
the well known artist, Col. James Fairman, 
of Chicago, upon the ‘‘Study of Fine Art.” 
It was an eloquent, discriminative and class- 
ical effort—one of the most instructive and 
entertaining lectures yet offered our people 
under the auspices of the Academy. It is 
hoped that Col. Fairman may return here 
and deliver his full course. 
THE Historical Society of New Mexico, 
which was organized in 1857 and flourished 
until the commencement of the war of 1861, 
when it died out on account of the dispersion 
of its members, has lately been revived and 
reorganized, with acting Governor W. G. 
Ritch for President; Judge L. B. Prince, 
Vice-President; David J. Miller, Corre- 
sponding Secretary; Wm. M. Berger, Re- 
cording Secretary; Lehman Spiegelberg, 
Treasurer, and J. C. Pearce, Curator. 
Mr. Miller informs us that ‘‘ while dormant 
its excellent and valuable collection of Span- 
ish, Mexican and Indian relics, curiosities and 
remarkable natural productions of New Mex- 
ico disappeared irrecoverably. There is a 
fine field (he says) open to us yet, however, 
and I am sure the reorganization will duly 
utilize it in the acquisition and preservation 
of interesting and valuable information with- 
in and concerning historic old New Mexico.” 
FROM the report of the annual meeting of 
the Davenport Academy of Science, held 
Jan. 5, 1881, we learn that this best known 
of Western institutions has been in opera- 
tion for thirteen years, owns its building, 
has about 4,000 volumes in its library, thou- 
sands of mound relics in its cabinets, com- 
prising inscribed tablets, tools of copper, 
flint implements, etc., etc., besides geolog- 
ical and mineralogical specimens in great 
abundance. Its principal officers and J. 
Duncan Putnam, President; Dr. C. C. Parry, 
Corresponding Secretary, and C. E. Putnam, 
Treasurer. 
Pror. F. E. NipHer, the distinguished 
physicist of Washington University, St. 
Louis, has sent us his beautiful photographic 
map of Equal Magnetic Declinations, pre- 
pared from the numerous and laborious mag- 
netic surveys made by him during the past 
three years. It is a wonderful example of 
patient and skilled scientific labor on his 
part, and the results will undoubtedly be a 
great surprise to all who examine it. 
At the St, Louis Academy of Science, on 
the 19th ult., Prof. Nipher displayed a plas- 
ter cast of a raised map of the State of Mis- 
souri, showing the magnetic lines in das re- 
“zef on a scale of twenty miles to the inch 
in the area of the State. This, he informs 
us by private letter, it is his intention to 
have photographed, or artotyped, and sent 
to various portions of the State for sale. 
