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Gallatin in his synopsis of the Indian tribes, published in the second volume 

 of transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, in speaking of the southern 

 branch of the Sioux Indians, says: "The five other tribes of the sub-division 

 are the loways or Fahoja, the Missouri's or Neojehe," etc. Can any of the read- 

 ers of the Review inform me where the term Neojehe is obtained and what it 

 means. J. 



Review, Vol. 5, No. i, G. C. Broadhead — Reply. I know of but two 

 treaties made by the Government with the Osage Indians for the cession of lands. 

 The first, that of 1808, to which you refer, they ceded, 33,173,383 acres in Mis- 

 souri, and 14,830,432 acres in Arkansas. This cession comprised all their lands 

 in Missouri. The second treaty was in 181 8. J. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association will 

 be held in this city, this month, commencing 

 on the 23d and adjourning on the 27th inst. 

 This is the first time the Association has held 

 a meeting as far west as this point, and from 

 present indications the meeting promises to 

 be unusually attractive, as the western drug- 

 gists are taking an active interest. The dis- 

 play of Chemicals will be grand, as the large 

 hall (Board ot Trade) which has been secured 

 has been divided up into spaces to suit the 

 demands of exhibitors, and every foot has 

 been taken by prominent manufacturers, 

 among them many who will make their dis- 

 play at our meetings. The railroads and the 

 hotels will make liberal reductions for per- 

 sons wishing to attend. The local commit- 

 tee, of which Wm. T. Ford is secretary, is ar- 

 ranging for excursions, etc., and will spare 

 no pains to render the occasion pleasant and 

 profitable. 



We call attention to the Institutions of 

 learning advertised in our columns this month. 

 They are, of their kind, the best schools in 

 the west and we advise students to confer 

 with the authorities before deciding to go 

 further and perhaps fare worse. 



Prof. Chas. Sternberg writes us from 

 Ft. Riley, Kansas, that while on his recent 

 exploring tour he discovered in Gove county 

 the upper and lower jaws and premaxilla of 

 a Leiodon p7'origer Cope. The lower mandible 

 was three feet and nine inches long and per- 

 fectly preserved. Up to the time of writing 

 (July 7th) he had collected 119 fossil fishes, 

 22 saurians and 2 pterodactyls. 



We are gratified to learn that Prof. H. S. 

 Pritchett has been elected Professor of As- 

 tronomy in Washington University at St. 

 Louis, in place of Prof. Rees, who goes to 

 Columbia College, New York. Both are able 

 men, and we congratulate the respective in- 

 stitutions in having secured them. 



Cincinnati has followed the example of 

 Kansas' City and St. Louis by adopting the 

 electric time ball, which went into operation 

 on the 1 8th ultimo. 



Prof. C. S. Sheffield, so well known 

 here, has been re-elected President of the 

 Pierce City Baptist College, and placed in 

 charge of the financial as well as its educa- 

 tional management. 



