/OL. VIIL 



September, 1884. 



No. 5. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 



EDITED BV 



THEO. S. C^SE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



PHYSICS. 



1. The Forces of Inorganic Nature.* 



Rev. James W. Hanna 225 



2. Selenium and Its Uses 234 



A.KCH.3E30LOGY. 



1. Did the Romans Colonize America? 236 



2. Death of Black-Bird.* A. R. Fulton. 243 



ENGINEERING. 



1. The Paris Wood Pavements 245 



2. Relative Right of Railroad Compan- 



ies and the Public. . . 247 



3. Creatoi's of the Aue of Steel 251 



4. The Isthmus Canal . , .... 260 



EDUCATION. 



1. School and Slate.* C. W. Stevenson. 261 



2. Tlie Text-Book as an Element in Sci- 



ence Teacliing.* Prof. Gilbert B. 

 Morrison. .... 270 



UOBRESPONBENCE. 



1. Mining Outlook in Colorado for 18S4.* 



John K. Hallowell 274 



PAGE. 



METEOKOLOGY. 



1. Kansas Weather Service.* Prof. J.T 



Lovewell . . .'.... . . 276 



2. Direct and Indirect Barometric 



Waves.* C. A. Shaw . 277 



BOOK NOTICES." 



1. Liife of Liiszt. Jansen, McClurg & Co 278 



2. The Transactions of the Academy of 



Science of St. Louis, Vol. IV, No. 3. 

 R. P. Studley & Co . . . .279 



3. Ninth Annual Report of the Rail- 



road Commissioners of the State of 

 Missouri, 1883 : . ... 279 



4. Politics. G. P. Putnain's Sons . . 280 



5. What is to be Done. Lee & Shepard 280 



6. Other Publications Received .... 280 



SCIENTIFIC 

 1 



MISCELLANY. 



Recently Patented Improvements.* 

 J. C. Higdon, M.E 281 



2. Lost Arts in the Patent Office.* W. 



B.Kirk 283 



3. TheTwiJight of Roman Sculpture. 



W S. Liscomb 285 



EDITORIAL NOTES 280 



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