382 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



No. 4, 1879. Training schools of cookery. 



No. 5, 1879. American education, as described by the French Commission 

 to the International Exhibition of 1876. 



A series of letters selected from those received during the first four months 

 of the year indicates the character of inquiries addressed to the Office. They 

 relate chiefly to school legislation, methods of teaching and discipline, and 

 courses of study, or request advice and direction for the establishment and con- 

 duct of normal schools and teachers' institutes, for the creation of public schools 

 where none exist, for the investment of school funds, etc. 



The matter of the report is derived from the reports of States, Territories, 

 and cities, of schools of all classes, and of various related institutions, as libraries 

 and museums. The number of these correspondents increases yearly; in 1879 

 the total was 7,869 for the American matter alone. 



The Commissioner refers to the great progress made during the year in the 

 classification and arrangement of the Office library, whereby the current work is 

 facilitated. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Report of the Commissioner of the General Land -Office, 1880; Report of 

 the operations of the U. S. Life Saving Service, 1880 ; Diseases of the Hog and 

 their Cause and Cure, 46 pp. 12 mo.; Constitution, list of Meetings, Officers, 

 Committees, and Members of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science for the Cincinnati Meeting, August, 1881, by F. W. Putnam, Permanent 

 Secretary; Bulletins Nos. i to 6, 1881, of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.; The 

 Manuscript Troano, by Prof. Cyrus Thomas ; The Ancient Mounds of Illinois, 

 by Hon. Wm. McAdams, Jr.,.Otterville, Illinois; The Preparation and Use of 

 Cements and Glue, by John Phin, pp. 58, 12 mo. 



The Student Monthly, devoted to the interests of education in the Society of 

 Friends at Haverford College, Pa. The Annual report of the Proceedings of the 

 Stockholders of the Northern Pacific R. R., September 15th, 1881 ; The Pollina- 

 tion of Yucca and on Pronuba and Prodoxus, by Prof C. V. Riley, Washington^ 

 D. C; Proceedings of the California Acacemy of Sciences, June 6th, 1881; The 

 State and Higher Education, by Prof N. H. Winchell; Annual Report of the 

 Board of Directors of the Chicago Astronomical Society, 1881; Descriptions of 

 some New Tortricidse (Leaf rollers) by C. V. Riley, M. A.. Ph. D.; First Annual 

 Report of the Astronomer at the Winchester Observatory of Yale College, 1880 

 -81, by Leonard Waldo ; A report on the Teaching of Chemistry and Physics in 

 the United States, by Prof F. W. Clarke, S. B., of the University of Cincinnati; 

 Catalogue of the Phsenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan, 

 by Charles F. Wheeler and Erwin S. Swith, Lansing, Michigan, 1881, price 500. 



