208 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



" Flowerless Plants," "Lowest Forms of Water Animals," "Lowly Mantle and 

 Armor-Bearers." The series is intended to teach the great laws of nature in 

 language simple enough to be intelligible to every child and yet with accuracy and 

 completeness. It aims at awakening the powers of observation and reasoning so 

 that pupils and teachers may be fellow-workers from the start. How well these 

 objects are carried out can be judged from the titles of the different papers, and 

 the fact of the series having had a large and wide-spread sale. 



Fifth Avenue to Alaska: By Edwards Pierrepont, B, A., with maps. Oc- 

 -tavo, pp. 329. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1884. For sale by M. 

 H. Dickinson, $1.75. 



This is a vivacious and sketchy account of a four months' trip by rail, steam- 

 er, stage and on horseback from New York to the Pacific coast, up that coast 

 to Alaska, "reaching a latitude where there was no night and where the Sun 

 rose within four hours after he set." Thence by way of Victoria and Puget 

 Sound to For tland, and then home by vi^ay of the unfinished Northern Pacific R. 

 R., making some twelve thousand five hundred miles in all. 



As the son of Hon. Edwards Pierrepont the author had unusually good ad- 

 vantages for seeing all that was worth seeing, and especially of meeting with 

 many intelligent and dintinguished men who were free to impart useful informa- 

 tion to such travellers. To describe such a book would be a tedious task; suf- 

 fice it to say that the writer touches upon almost every topic that could be wished, 

 and in many instances gives valuable information on points little understood in 

 the East. 



The book is very handsomely gotten up and the maps especially are carefully 

 and accurately prepared. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Ninth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of Missouri for 1883. 

 Chicago Popular Monthly, August, 1884, $1.50 a year, Chicago Popular Monthly 

 Co. Primiere Application a Paris, En 1883, de L'Assainissement Suivant Le 

 Systeme Waring, par Ernest Pontzen ; Prix 2 francs, 50 cents, Paris Librairie 

 Polytechnique, 1884. Economic Tracts No. 13, The Work of a Social Teacher, 

 a memorial of R. L. Dugdale by Edw. M. Shepard, Society for Political Educa 

 tion, N. Y., 1884. Alta della Societa Toscani Scienze Naturali, Vol. 4. Pro- 

 fessional Papers of Signal Service, No. 13, Temperature of the Atmosphere and 

 Earth's Surface; prepared under direction of Major-Gen. W. B. Hazen by Prof. 

 William Ferrel; Government Printing Office, 1884. Report of Kansas State 

 Board of Agriculture for month ending June 30, 1884, Wm. Simms, Secretary, 

 Topeka, Kansas, 1884. Illustrations of the Durham System of House-Drainage, 

 Guy H. Elmore and Geo. R. Baucus, Kansas City, Mo. The Young Meteorolo- 



