KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



transferred so much of the present personnel 

 and functions of the chief signal office as are 

 not necessary to the military duties of that 

 •office 4. A physical observatory to investi- 

 gate the laws of solar and terrestrial radia- 

 tion and their application to meteorology, 

 with such other investigation in exact sci- 

 ence as the government might assign to it 



In this connection they suggest that the 

 standard weights and measures be transfer- 

 red to this bureau, and that the proposed 

 electrical bureau be also included. 



A bill has passed the House authorizing 

 the building of a bridge across the Missis- 

 sippi at Memphis. It is provided that two 

 of the spans shall be not less than 550 feet 

 in the clear; no span shall be less than 300 

 feet, and the height of the superstructure 

 shall be 65 feet above extreme high water 

 mark. 



It is stated that extraordinary discoveries 

 -of silver have been made in the Cohuttah 

 Mountains in Northern Geo''gia, by a Boston 

 company. They claim to have traced a vein 

 •of 1,500 feet extending easterly through the 

 mountain, a distance of eight or nine miles 

 The assays run as high as eighty per cent. 



The total enrollment of students at the 

 University of Kansas for 1883-4 was 521, as 

 against 582 for 1882-3. The apparent fall- 

 ing off is explained by the Eegents in their 

 report as having been caused by the discon- 

 tinuance of the lowest preparatory class, 

 which in 1882-3 numbered 125 members. 

 They recommended an appropriation of 

 $50,000 for the erection of a building for the 

 Department of Natural History. 



The State Historical Society met in an- 

 nual session at Topeka, Kansas, January 20. 

 Officers were elected for the ensuing year as 

 follows : 



President — D. R. Anthony, Leavenworth. 



First Vice-President — B. F. Simpson, Pa- 

 ola. 



Second Vice-President — S. N. Wood, To- 

 peka. 



Secretary — F. G. Adams, Topeka. 



Treasurer — John Francis, Topeka. 



The number of directors was increased 

 from forty-eight to ninety-nine, and elected 

 in classes for one, two, and three years. 



The retiring president, Mr. F. P. Baker, 

 and M. W. Eeynolds delivered addresses. 



At the annual meeting of the St. Louis 

 Academy of Science, the following named 

 gentlemen wei e elected officers for the present 

 year: Prof. F. E. Nipher, President; Dr. 

 Leete, First Vice-President ; M. L. Gray, 

 Second Vice-President; Dr. Evers, Corres- 

 ponding Secretary, Prof. Engler, Recording 

 Secretary ; Dr. Sander, Treasurer ; Prof. 

 Hambach, Librarian. Mr. Alderdice, Dr. 

 Luedeking and Prof. Hambach were elected 

 Board of Curators. 



A company known as the Natural Gas 

 Company has been boring for some weeks at 

 the foot of Third street, in West Kansas City, 

 for gas, and recently struck it in consider- 

 able quantity. They claim a pressure of 

 one hundred pounds to the square inch and 

 a capacity of eighty thousand cubic feet per 

 day, and announce their intention of imme- 

 diately sinking two more wells. If their 

 claims are well founded we may expect to 

 see the manufacturing interests of Kansas 

 City take an immense forward stride at once. 



At a meeting of the Anthropological So- 

 ciety of Washington City the following 

 officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 President, J. W. Powell; Vice-Presidents, 

 Dr. Robert Fletcher, Prof. L. F. Ward, Col. 

 Garrick Mallery, Prof. O. T. Mason; Secre- 

 taries, S. V. Proudfit, F. A. Seely ; Treasurer, 

 Prof. J. H. Gore ; Curator, W. J. Hoffman ; 

 Members of Council, H. H. Bates, Dr. Frank 

 Baker, Rev. J. O. Dorsey, W. H. Holmes, 

 David Hutchinson, Prof. Cyrus Thomas. 



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