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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Pkof. E. D. Cope left yesterday morning 

 for the East. The professor was very en- 

 thusiastic in regard to the Kansas City Acad- 

 emy of Science, which he said was one of the 

 most active associations of its kind in the 

 West. He also spoke in the most flattering 

 terms of the Kansas City Eeview of Science 

 AND Indxjstky, edited by Col. T. S. Case, 

 and said that it had done more for scientific 

 and industrial progress than any other pe- 

 riodical west of the Alleghany Mountains. 

 — Kansas Ciiy Journal. 



We have received the 42d Catalogue of 

 the Missouri University. It is a handsome 

 and voluminous document, illustrated with 

 a cut of the main building as it will appear 

 when the present work of enlarging is com- 

 pleted, and several other engravings of build- 

 ings, etc. We learn from it that the faculty 

 consists of thirty-four professors, lecturers 

 and instructors, that the means of illustra- 

 tion and instruction in the various depart- 

 ments are ample and of the most modern 

 kinds, and that the number of stttdents for 

 the current year was 573, of whom 517 were 

 from this State and the remainder represent- 

 ed sixteen States and Territories. The 

 standard is high and the curriculum exten- 

 sive and complete. 



Peoe. F. E. Nipher, the noted physicist 

 at Washington University, St. Louis, says in 

 a recent letter : '' I send payment for Vol 

 VII, also for an additional year. I am sorry 

 that I have not had time to write anything 

 for the Eeview lately, for 1 think it should 

 be sustained, and our people in the West 

 should be educated up to as high an appre- 

 ciation of scientific work as possible and all 

 of us should aid vou in it." 



The Fifteenth Annual Commencement of 

 the Kansas State Agricultural College took 

 place June 8th to 11th inclusive. The an- 

 nual examinations, conducted orally and in 

 writing, were held in the several class-rooms 

 and shops from 8:30 A. M. to 12:10 P. M., 

 June 9th and 10th. The Baccalaureate 

 Sermon and the annual addresses were given 



in the College Chapel where the Undergrad- 

 uates Exhibition and the exercises of the 

 graduating class were also held. Visitors 

 were welcomed to all of these exercises, and 

 given opportunities for examining the Col- 

 lege in all its departments, — museums, labor- 

 atories, the farm and its stock and crops, or- 

 chards and forest plantations. The exer- 

 cises were as follows : Sunday, June 8th, 4 

 P. M. — Baccalaureate Sermon by the Presi- 

 dent Kev. Geo. T. Fairchild, D. D.; Monday, 

 June 9th, 8 P. M.— Undergraduates' Exhibi- 

 tion by members of the third-year class in 

 charge of Prof. E- M. Shelton ; Tuesday, 

 June 10th, 8 P. M.— Annual Address by Hon. 

 Geo. R. Peck, of Topeka. On Commence- 

 ment Day, Wednesday, June 11th, 10 A. M. 

 — Exercises of the Graduating class ; 5 P. M. 

 — Address before the Alumni Association by 

 W. D. Gilbert, Class of '74 ; 8 P. M.— Alumni 

 Beunion. Everything passed oflF in the most 

 creditable manner. The degree of B. A. 

 was conferred upon seventeen graduates, who 

 were addressed by Hon. F. D. Coburn, of 

 Wyandotte. 



The Missouri Teachers' Convention met 

 at Sweet Springs on the 24th, 25th and 26th 

 of June. There was a large attendance of 

 the prominent educators of the State and 

 the exercises were of an interesting character 

 and of a higher standard than ordinary. 

 We expect in the next issue of the Review 

 to publish some of the best papers that were 

 read. 



GuR old friend Prof. John D. Parker, now 

 Chaplain in the U. S. Army, in addition to 

 his military duties and true to his literary 

 tastes, finds time to prepare and deliver an 

 occasional lecture. He is now ready to re- 

 ceive proposals for courses of lectures upon 

 meteorology and archaeology, and can be ad- 

 dressed at Fort Hays, Kansas. 



The National Teachers' Association meets 

 at Madison, Wisconsin, July 10th to 18th, 

 and the indications are that there will be a 

 very large number avail themselves of the 

 many inducements ofifered to be present. 



