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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The editor of this magazine, having been 

 prevented by severe illness and absence from 

 home during the past two months from giv- 

 ing much personal attention to the Review, 

 <lesires to express his obligations to Prof. J. 

 D. Parker and Mr. Samuel R. Hudson for 

 valuable services in preparing and superin- 

 tending its publication for September and 

 October. 



Prof. Failyer, in the Industrialist^ for 

 September 24th, says, editorially, of the new 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 of Kansas : " We feel confident that Secre- 

 tary Coburn will be a success, and a worthy 

 successor of Gray and Hudson every way. He 

 has in him the thorough knowledge of the 

 details of the Kansas farmer's life ; and his 

 reports, we are sure, will " come straight 

 home" to the practical farmer of all sections 

 of the State. Mr. Coburn has in him the 

 energy and growth needed for the position." 



The Geographical Congress at its session 

 in Vienna, awarded to the American section 

 letters of distinction for various topographic 

 and hydrographic surveys and publications 

 by Government ofHcials, and for a series of 

 publications by the Post-Ofifice Department ; 

 also a diploma of honor, second-class, to the 

 Agricultural commission. Honorable men- 

 tion is made of the Treasury Department re- 

 p rts. 



"We have received from D. Appleton & Co. 

 a copy of Tylor's Anthropology, which we 

 shall notice in our next number. In the 

 meantime we will call the attention of our 

 readers to the full and interesting review of 

 the book, in this issue, by Prof. Alexander 

 Winchell, borrowed from The Dial, by which 

 it will be readily seen that it is just such a 

 work as all students of anthropology will de- 

 sire to have. 



The Tenth Annual Report of the Kansas 

 City Public Schools for 1880-81, is a volume 

 of 132 pages and gives a most favorable and 

 gratifying account of the progress made in 

 the manner of and facilities for teaching, as 

 well as that made by the pupils themselves. 

 As it is a matter of local interest and every 

 one who desires it can obtain a copy for him- 

 self, we give no details, but will simply 

 congratulate our citizens upon having so 

 competent and energetic directors, superin- 

 tendents and teachers. 



We now have two first-class medical col- 

 leges in Kansas City ; the Kansas City Med- 

 ical College (late College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons,) now in its thirteenth year and well 

 known throughout the whole New West, and 

 the Medical Department of the University of 

 Kansas City, just commencing its career as an 

 institution of learning. Both have Faculties 

 made up from the very best medical talent 

 in the city; both are erecting new buildings 

 with all the modern facilities for teaching, 

 and both, we sincerely hope, will receive 

 sufficient patronage from the vast regions 

 west of us, so rapidly filling up and demand- 

 ing the best professional skill of the day, to 

 cause them to succeed to the fullest expecta- 

 tion of their originators. 



Our fellow citizen, C. C. Hare, has invent- 

 ed and constructed a base burning, smoke 

 consuming hot-air furnace for soft coal, 

 which he styles the " Bituminous King." 

 We have examined it with some care and be- 

 lieve that he has discovered the most correct 

 . and practical means of effecting the complete 

 combustion of soft coal that has yet been ' 

 presented to the public. This has been a 

 great desideratum in the West and Mr, Hare 

 deserves the congratulations and patronage 

 of its people in the interest of economy and 

 home thrift. 



