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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



We were favored with a call from Prof. E. 

 D. Cope, the dibtinguished Philadelphia nat- 

 uralist, on the lOth ult., but unfortunately 

 had just left town on a health trip to the At- 

 lantic coast. 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



The October number of fofular Science 

 Monthly concludes the nineteenth volume of 

 this truly popular magazirie. No scientific 

 periodical in the country, if even in the 

 world, has ever taken with the people as this 

 has done and it is gratifying to learn that its 

 subscription list is still gaining. $5.00 per 

 annum is a ^ery low price for more than 

 1,500 pages of such matter as is regularly 

 furnished in the course of every year to its 

 readers. 



The November Atianttc will contain, in 

 the way of fiction, further installments of the 

 two serial novels, and a short story of west- 

 ern life, by a new contributor. A charming 

 paper by Mr. John Fiske ; a discussion of the 

 question. When did the Pi'grim Fathers land 

 at Plymouth ? by Mr. Sidney Howard Gay, 

 and a reminiscence of factory life in Lowell, 

 by Miss Larcom, will be prominent among 

 the miscellaneous matter in this number. 



The November number of Harper's Maga- 

 zine will contain. In Cornwall with an Um- 

 brella, by W. H. Rideing, illustrated by C. 

 S. Reinhait ; A Week in a Dug-out, by W. W. 

 Thomas, Jr., illustrated; Tilghman's Ride, 

 a poem by Howard Pyle, based on an inci- 

 dent connected with the Surrender of Corn- 

 wallis, with illustrations by the author ; 

 Journalistic London, — the second of a series 

 of papers by Joseph Hatton — illustrated by 

 portraits and sketches; Ohio's First Capital, 

 — a sketch of Chillitothe and of the pioneer 



history of Ohio — by Alfred Mathew — illus- 

 trated by portraits and views ; The Land of 

 the Midnight Sun, an illustrated paper by 

 John Habberton, apropos of the publication 

 ot Du Chaillu's work bearing the same title ; 

 Ead's Ship Railway, by John A. Dillon, il- 

 lustrated ; a paper by Prof. John Fiske, enti- 

 tled, How America came to be Discovered ; 

 the continuation of the two serial novels by 

 Miss Woolson and Thomas Hardy, short sto- 

 ries, etc. 



Van Nostrand' s Engineering Magazine for 

 October presents the following table' of con- 

 tents: Whirled Anemometers, illustrated; 

 Note on the Friction of Timber files in Clay, 

 by A. C. Hertzig, illustrated; Protective 

 Works on the South Rangitata River, N.Z., 

 by John H. Low ; On Steel Castings, by Mr. 

 Frank W. Dick ; Hydraulic Mortars, by Dr. 

 Michaelis ; On Light Railway Locomotives, 

 by Herr Von Borries ; Theory of the Action 

 of Railway Brakes, by E. Perron ; Working 

 of Light Railways on Common Roads, by 

 Herr Buresch ; The Dupuy Direct Prccess, 

 Uniform Standard Time, by Sanford Flem- 

 ing ; The Projected Simplon Tunnel Through 

 the Alps, by G. T. Lommel ; The Goldschmid 

 Aneroid, illustrated ; The Art of Founding 

 in Brass, Copper, and Bronze, by Edward 

 Tuck; Theory of the Injector, by E. Her- 

 man ; On the Maintenance of Pure Air in 

 Dwellings ; Gas for Light and Heating, by 

 Dr. C. W. Siemens ; On the Progress and 

 Development of the Marine Engine ; Deter- 

 mination of the Efficiency of Large Cylindri- 

 cal Iron 1 anks, by John D. Crehore ; The 

 Actual Lateral Pressure of Earthwork, by 

 Benjamin Baker, illustrated; Paragraphs, Re- 

 ports of Engineering Societies, Engineering 

 Notes, Iron and Ste.el Notes, Railway Notes, 

 Ordinance and Naval, Book Notices, and 

 Miscellaneous. 



