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Vol. VI I L 



December, 1884. 



No. 8. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



EDITED BY 



THEO. S. O^SE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PHILOSOPHY. 



1. A Plea for the Occult.' 

 Van Horn 



Hon R. T. 



413 



MINERALOGY. 



1. Identification of Minerals 425 



PBOCEEDINGS OP SOCIETIES. 



1. Social Science Convention of Kansas 



and Western Missouri 429 



2. Art from a Practical Standpoint Mrs. 



S. M. Ford 430 



3. Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the 



Kansas Academy of Science . . . . 454 



4. Address : Necessity of State Geolog- 



ical Survey. Dr. R. J. Brown . . . 454 



ABCH^OLOGY. 



1. The Lost Atlantis. Mrs. H.M. Hold- 



en 435 



2. Buried Cities 440 



ASTRONOMY. 



1. Sun and Planets for December.* 



1884, Wm. Dawson 445 



METEOROLOGY. ^ 



1. The Panama Canal, Influence of, 



Upon Climate.* M. O. Baldwin, 

 M. D 446 



2. The Atmospheric Haze of 1883 and 



1884.- W. H. Pratt 447 



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



Lovewell - . . . . ... 451 



4. Is the Rainfall of Kansas Increas- 



ing? Prof. F. H. Snow 456 



ENGINEERING. 



1, A,merican and English City Rapid 



Transit 452 



PAGB. 



GEOLOGY. 



1. The Gravels of Southern Kansas.* 



G. C. Broadhead 453 



MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 



1. Cocaine as a Local Anaesthetic." 

 B. Tiffany, M. D 



F. 



462 



BOOK NOTICES.* 



1. Annual Report of the Smithsonian 



Institution for 1882 . ... 464 



2. Publications of the Washburn Ob- 

 servatory, Vol. II . 464 



First Principles of Natural Philoso- 

 phy. Sheldon & Co 465 



The Home -Physician, G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons 465 



Bulletin of the Museum of the State 



University of Missouri 465 



Public Relief and Private Charity. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons 466 



7. A Young Girl's Wooing. Dodd, 



Meade & Co . 467 



,8. The Religions of the Ancient World. 



J. Fitzgerald & Co 467 



9. Other Publications Received .... 468 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



1. Recently Patented Improvements.* 



3. 



6. 



J. C. Higdon,M.E . 468 



The Grasses of the Great Plains . . . 469 

 The State of Iowa One Hundred and 



Sixty Years Ago . ... 470 



The Laboratory that Jack Built, 472 



Spouting Oil-Wells in Russia .... 475 



EDITORIAL NOTES 473 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS .... 475 



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