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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



The annual meeting of the Kansas Acad- 

 emy of Science for 1881, will be held at To- 

 peka November 9th, loth and nth. The 

 business meeting will be held at 3 P. M. on 

 Wednesday, November 9th, at the ofHce of 

 Dr. A. H. Thompson. On Wednesday and 

 Thursday evenings, popular lectures may be 

 expected. The regular meetings for reading 

 and discussion of papers will be held as 

 usual, in the Senate chamber. On Friday 

 evening, November iilh, it is expected that 

 a reception will he given. The Mudge mon- 

 ument is now completed, and it is expected 

 that many members of the Academy, under 

 whose auspices it has been erected, will join 

 an excursion party to Manhattan on Saturday, 

 November 12th, and take part in the cere- 

 mony of dedicating the monument. 



Mr. David J. Miller, corresponding sec- 

 retary of the Historical Society of New Mex- 

 ico, in a circular address issued recently, gives 

 a condensed history of its organization and 

 the objects, and closes with an appeal to 

 those persons having any books, pamphlets, 

 manuscripts, journals, old letters or anything 

 else bearing upon the history of that region, 

 ancient or modern, 10 send them to him for 

 preservation and for use in future reports of 

 the society. 



An invitation has been extended through 

 Professor Sylvester to Professor A. Cayley, 

 D. C L., LL, D., F. R. S., Sadlerian Pro- 

 fessor of Pure Mathematics in the University 

 of Cambridge, England, to visit Baltimore 

 and take part in the mathematical instruction 

 of the Johns Hopkins University during the 

 ensuing academic year. Professor Cayley 

 has accepted this invitation, subject to the 

 approval of the authorities of his own uni- 

 versity; and it is expected that he will arrive 

 in this country before the ist of January next, 

 and take a regular part in the instruction of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, from that 

 time until the close of the session in June. 



Col. N. S. Goss, of Neosho Falls, who has 

 probably the largest and best private orni- 

 thological collection in America, numbering 

 over 700 birds, of 350 different species, has 



turned over his collection to the State of 

 Kansas, and it will soon be placed in one of 

 the wings of the state house at Topeka. Col. 

 Goss intends to continue making collections, 

 and will soon visit the Pacific coast and South 

 America for this purpose. 



Malarial fever has been showing itself 

 epidemically, in various parts of New Eng- 

 land, whtre it has been for many years un- 

 known. 



It is claimed that even the climate of New 

 Mexico is changing with the advent of rail- 

 roads and telegraph wires, the rainfall for 

 the last year having been unusually great, 

 and that of this fall notably so. 



Dr. Schlieman, the eminent archseologist, 

 has arrived at Constantinople. The German 

 embassy has asked for a firman authorizing 

 the continuance of his excavations at His- 

 sarlik, the site of ancient Troy. 



General DiCesnola arrived in New 

 York on the 12th of October, from Europe, 

 where he has been arranging to exchange the 

 9,000 duplicates of his Cyprian collection of 

 archseological specimens for some of the 

 works of art in the principal museums of 

 Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Paris In this 

 effort he is reported to have been very suc- 

 cessful. 



Captain Hooper of the artic steamer Cor- 

 win, being the first explorer who has actually 

 reached Wrangel Land, raised the United 

 States flag thereon, August 12th, 1881, and 

 formally named it New Columbia. 



A South American Industrial Exposition 

 is soon to be held at Buenos Ayres, to which 

 the United States is invited to send machin- 

 ery, blooded stock, etc. 



Mr. Chas. H. Sternberg, of Ellsworth, 

 Kansas, who has contributed several articles 

 on the fossils of the west to the Review, is 

 now at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 at Harvard University, mending and clean- 

 ing his summer's collections. 



