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As the fourth volume of the REVIEW will 
close soon, and we shall be asking our 
friends to renew their subscriptions, it may 
be well enough, by showing the estimation 
in which it is held by scientific men and pe- 
riodicals in different parts of the country, to 
publish extracts from some of the encour- 
aging letters and notices we have recently 
received. From them it will be observed 
that the Review has met with favor not less 
in the East than in the West, and even in 
Europe it has found some readers of note 
who have been kind enough to express their 
appreciation of it and its management: 
University of the State of Missouri, \ 
Columbia, Mo., May 13, 1879. 
THEO. S. CASE, Esq. : 
My Dear Sir: I can but congratulate 
you on the excellence of your journal, and 
I will try and aid you with an occasional ar- 
ticle, 
Yours truly, 
G, C. SWALLow. 
Prof. O. T. Mason, Columbian College, 
D. C., the distinguished anthropologist, 
writes : 
‘‘T have frequently promised myself the 
pleasure of showing my appreciation of your 
very creditable journal by sending you some- 
thing from the foreign field, &c.”’ 
Boston Scientific Society, 
January 31, 1879. } 
With thanks for kindness in sending your 
REVIEW to our Society, and congratulations 
upon the high standard it has reached, I am, 
Ever yours, 
J. RITCHIE, JR., Sec’y. 
Osage City, Kansas. 
I am much pleased with the articles in the 
number before me, and I deem it a better 
work for the general reader than most of the 
scientific journals of the present day. 
Yours, &c., J. W. JACKSON. 
New York, October 8, 1879. 
I have offered to send the REVIEW to the 
library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
of which Gen. L. P. di Cesnola is director, 
as its archeological papers will there be ap- 
preciated, and would like, therefore, a full 
set from the commencement. 
Very sincerely, 
Dr. F. A. CASTLE, 
* # %* The REVIEW is a very useful 
publication, and must contribute very sensi- 
bly to the material development of this sec- 
tion of the country, a record of whose _his- 
tory and development it is the object of the 
society to make up. Yours very truly, 
; F. G. ADAMS, 
Sec. Kansas Hist. Society. 
Washington, Jan. 20, 1879. 
* * * * * # * 
I look upon your REVIEW as a very valua- 
ble addition to scientific journalism, and one 
especially interesting to the growing West. 
Very truly yours, 
H. W. HowearteE, U. S. A. 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM H. WAHL, of Phila- 
delphia, associate editor of the Lugineering 
and Mining News, published in New York 
City, writes, August 5th, as follows: “** * 
* JT take much pleasure in reading your 
REVIEW, and trust that you are succeeding 
with it.” 
There are several other articles by home 
and Western authors, which keep up the pe- 
culiarly distinctive character of the maga- 
zine as the organ of Western thought, while 
its miscellany is of the latest authority and 
choicest character. We grow moreand more 
proud of our home publication.— Kansas 
City Journal. 
