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amount that could be raised in one day if 
necessary, and we should then have an insti- 
tution which would be an honor to the city, 
as the work of its astronomers is now a 
credit tothe West. As one of the depart- 
ments of a University to be built up here it 
would have a world-wide reputation to start 
with. 
IN common with many other scientific 
magazines of the country, we shall hereafter 
devote a portion of our space to ‘‘ Notes 
and Queries,’ to which department we in- 
vite contributions on all appropriate sub- 
jects by our subscribers and 
readers. 
interested 
A RECENT visit to Washington University, 
at St. Louis, and a careful inspection of its 
ample, complete and modern buildings, ap- 
paratus, and appliances for illustrating and 
teaching, not only the ordinary branches of 
education, but natural philosophy, chemistry, 
technology, painting and sculpturing, con- 
vinced us that in many of these departments 
it is not equaled in the West, and that it is 
excelled in none. In the departments of 
physics and practical engineering it is es- 
pecially strong, the students being put to 
the actual work of doing with their own 
hands the experimenting with fluids, solids, 
metals, etc., the architectual drawing, the 
construction of models in wood for castings, 
the forging of tools, etc., which he expects 
later in life to use and to deal with. Every- 
thing is practical, even in the art depart- 
ment and the geological cabinet. If even 
the people of St. Louis themselves gener- 
ally know what a valuable Institution they 
have in their midst, which is doubtful, it is 
far more than the people of the State do, 
much as they need such an one forjthe educa- 
tion of experts to aid in developing .the in- 
estimable wealth of its mines and its 
immense natural resources of every kind. 
WE are informed that Mr.Chas. Sternberg, 
of Ellsworth, with a son of Dr. Reynolds, of 
Riley, as assistant and a driver,are collecting 
Kansas fossils for Prof. Agassiz, of Harvard 
College, Mass. They started March Ist and 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
are now collecting among the fossil leaf im- 
pressions of the Dacotah group, a division 
of our Cretaceous. They work first in West- 
ern Kansas, and, if time allows, they will 
this fall collect a full set of coal fossils, also. 
WORK upon the tunnel under the Hudson 
river, connecting the cities of New York 
and Jersey City, is being pushed forward at 
the rate of aboutfive feet a day. A small 
tunnel six feet in diameter is run ahead of 
the larger one, which follows and incloses it. 
Warning is thus given of the nature of the 
soil. 
A DISTANT subscriber to the REVIEW in a 
private letter writes as follows concerning 
Col. Wan Horn’s article in the February 
number: ‘‘I have been waiting for years 
for some one to utilize Prof. Crook’s radiant 
light, and has not Mr. Van Horn done it 
well in his ‘‘ New Hypothesis? I can fol- 
low him with deep interest through the 
larger portion of the article, but once in 
a while he dives so deep that I have to leave 
him in the depths. I am almost tempted to 
visit Kansas City to see him and get more 
light.” 
Mr. EMIL PouRADE has discovered what 
he believes to be a quarry of very fine litho- 
graphic stone, on the Big Blue, about five 
miles east of this city. 
Rev. Dr. BELL gives the following com- 
plimentary notice of the REVIEW in a late 
number of the AZzad-Contenent: ‘*Thearticles 
are numerous and exceedingly well written 
and chosen. The article by our President of 
the Academy of Science, Hon. R. T. Van 
Horn, which leads the whole list, is one of 
rare merit. The way to make this work a 
still greater success in all directions, is to 
buy it, subscribe for it.” 
AT the close of the ceremonies attending 
the formal presentation of the obelisk to the 
City of New York, Algernon S. Sullivan, 
Esq., on behalf of the American Numis- 
matic and Archeological Society, formally 
presented to Lieutenant-Commander Gor- 
| ringe a medal, which the Society had caused 
