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principal foreign seaports to examine all steerage passengers and crews, and in- 

 structions will be given collectors of customs to prevent the landing of any bag- 

 gage belonging to passengers or men who have died during the passage at sea 

 from any disease, as, although the death may be reported from something else, 

 there is a possibility of the death having been from cholera. — Nat. Republican. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Prof. Chas. H. Sternbekg, of Lawrence, 

 Kansas, and Mr. W. W. Euss, of the Kansas 

 State University, are now out upon a geolog- 

 ical excursion, collecting fossils for Prof. O. 

 C. Marsh in the northwestern counties of 

 that State. In Ottawa County they were 

 fortunate enough to secure the head and cer- 

 vical vertebrae of a Saurian whose extreme 

 length, judging by the dimensions of the 

 head, fifty inches, must have been over sixty 

 feet. The remainder of the skeleton was 

 thoughtlessly destroyed by the quarrymen 

 who discovered it. 



Prof. J. G. Porter, of the United States 

 Coast Survey, Washington, D. C, has been 

 elected Astronomer of the Observatory of 

 the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, to suc- 

 ceed Prof. Ormond Stone, who has taken a 

 similar position at the University of Vir- 

 ginia, 



Mr. Edwin Harrison and Major F. F. 

 Hilder, of the Committee on Science and Ed- 

 ucation, ask in behalf of the St. Louis Ex- 

 position Association the cordial co-operation 

 of all who can assist them in making a dis- 

 play of such articles as can be classed as il- 

 lustrations of any of the many branches of 

 the above department. From inventors and 

 manufacturers of apparatus and instruments 

 for instruction and scientific investigation, 

 they hope to receive such a display as will 

 be creditable to the exhibition, and at the 

 same time be of service both to the exhibitors 

 and the public. From Colleges, Industrial, 

 Polytechnic, Manual Training and other 

 schools, they solicit exhibits of the work of 



students and scholars in every department 

 of their respective courses In the great 

 field of the natural sciences everything will 

 be acceptable that will serve as an illustra- 

 tion of any department ; collections, speci- 

 mens, models and drawings will be wel- 

 come. 



On June 2d Dr. A. P. Lankford died at 

 Lexington, Mo., at the age of forty-seven 

 years. He was formerly engaged in the prac- 

 tice of medicine in this city, and filled the 

 chair of surgery in the Kansas City Medical 

 College. Subsequently he was selected to 

 fill the same position in the Missouri Medi- 

 cal College at St. Louis, which he did most 

 acceptably for about ten years, when his 

 health gave way and he returned home to 

 die at his father's house. Dr. Lankford was 

 an able man and skillful surgeon, and was 

 held in high estimation by all of his asso- 

 ciates and acquaintances. 



In the catalogue of the Missouri LTniver- 

 sity, for 1883-4, we find a valuable article by 

 Pi-of. G. C. Broadhead upon the " Eelation 

 of the Soils of Missouri to Geology," also 

 his report of work done in re-arranging and 

 labeling the fossils and mineral specimens 

 in the University Museum. 



Prof. S. H. Trowbridge, of Glasgow, Mo., 

 writes : " I am pained to know that the Ee- 

 VIEW is still a financial weight, instead of the 

 grand success it so richly deserves to be in 

 your hands. It would be a calamity to 

 many friends of popular science and improv- 

 ment if its publication should cease." 



