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annual review for 1881, (illustrated,) a handsome and valuable number. The 

 Gold-Bearing Drift of Indiana, Geo. Sutton, M. D., Aurora, Ind.; pp. 9. The 

 Home Circle, a Baptist monthly magazine, published at Philadelphia, Pa.; $1.50 

 per annum. The Western Household, published at Jefferson City, Mo., month- 

 ly, by John Meagher; 50c per annum. Atti Delia Societa Toseana Di Scienze 

 Naturali, Vol. Ill, November, 1881. Manufacturer and Inventor, Vol. I, No. 

 3, monthly, New York ; $1.00 per annum. Causes of Deafness among School 

 Children and its Influence on Education. Circular No. 5 from Bureau of Edu- 

 cation. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



At the February meeting of the Kansas 

 City Academy of Science, Dr. Joshua Thorne 

 presented a paper entitled " A New Theory 

 of Volcanoes," which was received with 

 interest. It was expected that it would be 

 published in this number of the Review, 

 but as the illustrations could not be prepared 

 in time, its publication was necessarily post- 

 poned. 



It was determined by the Academy to re- 

 sume its work as originally laid out, viz: by 

 dividing the membership into appropriate 

 sections, each section to devote itself as far 

 as possible to original investigation. Sev- 

 eral new members were elected, after which 

 the meeting was adjourned. 



For the Warner special prize of ^200 for 

 the best essay on comets, their composition, 

 purpose and effect on the earth, 125 essays 

 were sent to Director Swift, of Warner Observ- 

 atory. The judges, Prof. Elias Colbert, of 

 Chicago, Prof. H. A. Newton, of Yale Col- 

 lege, New Haven, Conn., and Prof. H. M. 

 Parkhurst, of New York City, unanimously 

 awarded the prize to the essay written by 

 Prof. Lewis Boss, director of Dudley Observ- 

 atory, Albany, N. Y. 



The suggestions of Dr. John Fee, City 

 Physician, in his late report to the Mayor 

 and Council, are eminently practical and 

 praiseworthy. Every one of them is based on 



experience, backed by a thorough knowledge 

 of his profession, and the sooner the city 

 avails itself of them the better it will be for 

 all classes of its people. 



The destruction of the World Building by 

 the late fire in New York was a serious loss 

 to a number of the best papers published in 

 the city. Among them were the Scientific 

 American and Scientific American Stipplement, 

 the Manufacturer and Builder, and the New 

 York Observer^ all valued exchanges of the 

 Review. The Scientific American, while suf- 

 fering severe loss, saved its account books, 

 records and patent drawings, and, since its 

 printing was done in another building, was 

 enabled to proceed without interruption of 

 its business. Its new offices are located at 

 261 Broadway, near Warren Street, a very 

 central and convenient location and one that 

 will soon become as well known to the peo- 

 ple of the United States as '' 37 Park Row '» 

 has been for the past quarter of a century. 

 We have not learned the new addresses of 

 the other papers mentioned. 



Prof. J. D. Parker, who has frequently 

 contributed to the columns of the Review 

 and who is otherwise well known as an able 

 and scholarly man, has recently taken the 

 position of business manager of the Mid-Con- 

 tinent, a religious and literary paper of this 

 city. 



