Vol. VIII. 



August, 1884. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



EDITED BY 



THEO. S. O^SE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



1. Arctic Corps of Explorers."'' John D. 



Parker, U.S. A . Ibl 



2. Rescue of the Greely Expedition*. 



Compiled by the Editor 166 



3. New Zealand.* Wm. Dawson .... 177 



4. A New Volcano 179' 



JIEDICIlSrE AND HYGIENE. 



1. Relation of the Soil to Health . . 



ASTRONOMY. 



1. Velocity.— II.* Edgar L. Larkin . 

 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



1. Scientiflc Progress. A. R. Fulton 



2. The History of the Telephone . 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Meteorological Discoveries."^ 



2, 



180 



188 



190 

 194 



Isaac 



P. Noyes 196 



Kansas Weather Service.* Prof. J.T 

 Lovewell . . 204 



BOOK NOTICES.* 



1. Historyof the Thirty Years' War. G, 



P. Putnams' Sons . . 205 



2. Times of Linnaeus. Jansen,McClurg 



& Co 206 



PAGE. 



3. Elements of Rhetoric and Composi- 



tion. Sheldon & Co 206 



4. A Country Doctor. Houghton, Mif- 



flin & Co ^ . . 207 



5. Barbara Thayer. Lee & Shepard . . 207 



6. Science Ladders. G. P. Putnams' 



Sons 207 



7. Fifth Avenue to Alaska. G. P. Put- 



nams' Sous 208 



8. Other Publications Received .... 208 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



1. 



Recently Patented Improvements.* 



J. C. Higdou, M.E 209 



Virgilian Proverbs 212 



The Three Genera of the Greeks.* F. 



A. Jones 213 



Death of Black-Bird, the Omaha 



Chief.* O. W. Collett 217 



Directions for Collecting Vertebrate 



Fossils.* C. H. Sternberg .... 219 

 Cause of Cholera . . 221 



EDITORIAL NOTES 



222 



ITEMS PROM PERIODICALS 



. 224 



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