

February, 1885. 

 THE 



No. 10. 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



EDITED BY 



TECEO. S. O^SE, 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



ENGIJSTEEKING. 



1. The Kansas City Cable Railway.* . . 541 



2. Ancient and Modern Engineering 



and Architecture.* Dr. R. Wood 

 Brown ... 549 



3. Underground Wires 554 



GEOiiOar. 



1. The Crawfordsville Crinoids.* Prof. 



D. A. Bassett 556 



2. The Geological Survey of Kansas . . ,563 



3. The Last Submersion and Emerg- 



ence of Southeastern Kansas.*— 

 (Concluded). E. P. West . 565 



4. Kansas Scientific Survey. Prof. J. 



D. Parker, U. S. A , 567 



5. The Age of the World.* Rev. L. J. 



Templin 570 



BIOLOGY. 



1. The Washburn Biological Survey of 



Kansas.* Prof. F. W. Cragin ... 576 



Astronomy, 



1. Velocity.— III.* Edgar L. Larkin . . 580 



2. Cause of Solar Heat. Prof. Richard 



A. Proctor. ... ... 533 



3. Sun and Planets for February, 1886.* 



Wm. Dawson 586 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Meteorological Summary for the 



Year 1884. Prof. P. H. Snow. . . . 587 



COBEESPOWDENCE. 



1. The New Orleans Exposition * . . . 590 

 BOOK NOTICES.* 



1. The Book of Algoonah. Cyrus F. 



Newcomb & Co 596 



2. Catarrh, Sore Throat and Hoarseness. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons 596 



3. Report of the Chief Signal Ofllcer, 



1883 596 



4. Ninth Volume Wisconsin Histoi'i- 



cal Collections .597 



5. Progressive Morality. J. Fitzgerald. 597 



6. Other Publications Received .... 598 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



1. Recently Patented Improvements.* 



J. C. Higdon, M. E 598 



2. Prehistoric Statues 599 



EDITORIAL NOTES 600 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS .... 602 



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