598 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Annual Report of Missouri River Commission for 1884, from Prof. G. C» 

 Broadhead. Meteorology of the Mountains and Plains of North America, as 

 affecting the cattle-growing industries of the United States, by Capt. Silas Bent. 

 Tidings froffi Nature, January, 1885, Vol I, No. 5, Rutland, Vermont. Reports 

 from Consuls of the United States on Commerce, Manufactures, etc., No. 47, 

 October and November, 1884, Washington, D. C. John Hopkins' University 

 Studies. Herbert Adams' Editor, 3d Series. Maryland's Influence on Land 

 Cessions to the United States, by Herbert Adams, Baltimore, Md., January, 1885, 

 2d Series. Land Laws of Mining Districts, by Charles H. Shinn, A. B., Decem- 

 ber, 1884. Humboldt Library, No. 63. Progressive Morality. An Essay in 

 Ethics, by Thomas Fowler, M. A., J. Fitzgerald, 20 Lafayette Place, N. ¥., 15 

 cents. Signal Service Notes, No. 15 : Danger Lines and River Floods of 1882, 

 by H. A. Hazen, Washington, D. C. Circulars of Information of the Bureau 

 of Education, No. 6, 1884, Washington, D. C. Humboldt Library. No. 64. 

 The Distribution of Life, by Alfred R. Wallace and W. T. T. Dyer, 15 cents, J. 

 Fitzgerald & Co., N. Y. The Line of Florida Railway and Navigation Company, 

 Benjamin S. Henning, President, General offices Fernandma, Fla. Illinois Cen- 

 tral World's Exposition, compiled by Miss Lydia Strawn. Journal of Microscopy 

 and Natural Sciefice, edited by Alfred Allen, January, 1885, Vol. IV, Part 13, 

 I Cambridge Place, Bath, England. Proceedings of Boston Society of Natural 

 History, Vol. XXII, Part 4, October, 1883, and December, 1883, Boston, Mass. 

 The Woman's Magazine, Esther Housh, Editor, Frank E. Housh, publisher,. 

 Brattleboro, Vt., Vol. VJII, No. 5, January, 1885, monthly, 10 cents, $1 per 

 annum. 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



RECENTLY PATENTED IMPROVEMENTS. 



J. C. HIGDON, M. E., KANSAS CITY, MO. 



Apparatus for Loading Cars with Coal, Etc. — This invention has for 

 its object the provision of improved means whereby box-cars and stock-cars may 

 be readily loaded with coal or the like without the intervention of hand shoveling. 



The apparatus consists principally in applying to the delivery or lower end 

 of a coal chule a shunting-apron that is capable of being reversed or swung 



