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Vol. V. 



November, i88i, 



No. 7. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



EDITED BV 



THEO. S. CA^SE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



■CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY. 



1. Jophn City White Lead Works,* by Eras- 



mus Haworth. o91 



2. Concerning Fluorine ... 396 



PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING. 



1. Compass Surveying*, by Francis E.Nipher, 



Professor of f-hysics in Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis, Mo 399 



2. The Isthmian Ship-Railway 400 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



1. Prehistoric Man in Lafayette County, Mo.,='- 



by Prof H. A. Keid 405 



2. The Art of Founding in Br ss. Copper and 



Bronze, by Edward Tuck 409 



0. The American Horse,* by E. L. Berthoud 414 



GEOLOGY. 



1. Miocene Fauna of Oregon,* by Charles H. 



Sternberg 416 



2. Diatoms, by Henry G. Hanks, State Min- 



eralogist, California 418 



GEOGRAPHY. 



1 . The Voyage of the Proteus to Lady Frank- 



lin Bay ... 421 



2. The Lost Jeannetfe 425 



3. Stanley's Illness in Africa 426 



ASTRONOMY. 



1, Transit of Mercury and Notes for Novem- 



ber, 1881,* by W. W. Alexander .... 426 



2. Remarkable Auroras,* by Pi of. S. A. Max- 



well 429 



PHILOSOPHY. 



1. Kansas Weather Service,* by Prof. J. T. 



Lovewell 431 



2. Cause of the Arid Climate of the West . .432 



MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 



1. The Proper Limits of Physical Culture,* 



by W. B. Sawyer, M. D 435 



2. The Manufacture of Meiso,* by Prof. D. 



P. Penha low 437 



BOOK NOTICES.* 



1. Tvlor's Anthropology, D. Appleton & 



Co 441 



2. Illusions, D. Appleton & Co ..... . 441 



3. The Old Testament in the Jewish Church .442 



4. Farm Festivals, Harper & Bros 443 



.5. Journal of a Farmer's Daughter, G. P. 



Putnam's Sons 443 



6. Other Publications Received 444 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



Fifty Years' Progress in Science .... 444 

 Industrie^ of Norway and Sweden .... 448 



Railroad Statistics 449 



A Correction, by H. A. Reid 450 



What Volcanoes are not 4.")1 



Forestrv Work of the 10th Census . . . .451 

 Indian Summer 452 



EDITORIAL NOTES 453 



ITEMS PROM THE PERIODICALS . 455 



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