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shire, while the cold was unprecedented iu 

 Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and other 

 Southern States. Fifteen days steady sleigh- 

 ing in one month is an unusual record for 

 Kansas City, while in the country adjacent 

 it has been good for most of the time for 

 nearly six weeks. 



We call attention of our readers to the 

 article of Professor Bassett upon the Craw- 

 fordsville (Indiana) crinoids as containing 

 some facts not ordinarily known. He has 

 been engaged for many years in studying 

 these remarkable fossils under the most 

 favorable circumstances, and for two or three 

 years has made a business of supplying them 

 to museums and public and private collec- 

 tions. Doubtless he is better acquainted 

 with the subject than any man in the West. 

 We have had the pleasure of seeing his best 

 specimens and can testify to their beauty and 

 perfection. 



We are glad to be informed that the dif- 

 ferences between the State Board of Health 

 and the Hospital Medical College of this 

 city have been adjusted, and that this insti- 

 tution is now placed upon the same footing 

 as our other medical colleges, so that its 

 graduates will hereafter be entitled to full 

 recognition everywhere. 



Professor S. H. Trowbridge, of Glasgow, 

 Mo., writes thus pleasantly of the Eeview : 

 " It is and has been from the start a grand 

 success from a literary, educational, and 

 scientific standpoint, and richly merits and 

 should have equal success in a financial 

 sense." 



The time for applications for space iu the 

 International Inventors' Exhibition, to be 

 opened in London, in March, has been ex- 

 tended to February 10. The Exhibition will 

 continue for about six months, and will be 

 presided over by the Prince of Wales. 



Division 1. (Inventions) will be devoted 

 to apparatus, appliances, processes, and 

 products, invented or brought into use since 

 1862, and illustrations thereof. 



Division 2. (Music) will consist of exam- 

 ples of musical instruments of a date not 

 earlier than the commencement of the pres- 

 ent century ; and of historic collections of 

 musical instruments and appliances, and 

 paintings, engravings, and drawings repre- 

 senting musical subjects, without any re- 

 striction as to date. 



Mr. Edgar C. Saunders, of Camp San 

 Saba, Texas, sends us several nodules of sul- 

 phuret of iron which, he says, " lie upon a 

 stratified formation of limestone and cover 

 an area about three miles long by three- 

 fourths wide." He notes their resemblance 

 to meteorites and desires to know their 

 origin, whether they have fallen out of the 

 limestone in weathering, or whether they 

 may be really meteorites. 



We learn from Secretary E. E. Kichard- 

 son's 14th Annual Eeport of the Kansas 

 City Stock Yards that during the past year 

 the total shipments were : 533,992 cattle, 

 1,724,287 hogs, 237,214 sheep, 27,092 horses 

 and mules, and that for the fourteen years 

 since the opening of the yards 12,427,422 

 head of stock have been received and ship- 

 ped. 



The Leavenworth Academy of Science 

 at its last meeting elected the following 

 officers for 1885 : Hon. H. M. Aller, Presi- 

 dent; Prof. F. A. Fitzpatrick, Vice-Presi- 

 dent; Dr. R. J. Brown, Secretary, and Dr. 

 T. Sinks, Treasurer. A resolution in favor 

 of a State geological survey was passed aud 

 a committee appointed to present the matter 

 to the Legislature this winter. 



A committee of the National Academy of 

 Science has replied to inquiries made by the 

 joint committee of Congress on the proposed 

 consolidation of the various scientific bu- 

 reaus, by presenting a plan for the division 

 of scientific work now performed into four 

 bureaus, as follows : 1. The present coast 

 and geodetic survey to continue. 2. The 

 geological surveys as at present. 3. The 

 meteorological bureau, to which should be 



