Vol. V. 



December, i88i. 



No. 8. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 



EDITED BV 



THEO. S. O^SE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Academy of Sciences,' 

 Fifty Years' Progress in Science 



455 



463 



PAGE. 



PKOCBEDINQS OF SOCIETIES. 



1. Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Kansas 



2. 



PHILOSOPHY. 



1. Thoughts on the Idealism of Berkeley,* by 



E. K. Knowles 468 



GEOGRAPHY, 



1. Martin Be^iaim's Globe,-'= by Capt. E. L. 



Berthoud 471 



2. Latitude and Longitude of Kansas City,* 



by E. A Hickman 473 



3. Exploration of Wrangel Land 474 



4. Arctic Phenomena 475 



5. The Jeannette's Fate 476 



6. Official Report of the Corwin's Cruise. . .476 



AKCHuEOLOGY. 



1. Dead Cities of New Mexico,* Columbus 



Moise 480 



2. The Art of Founding in Br iss, Copper and 



Bronze, (Concluded,) by Edward Tuck. 482 



3. Were Ancient Copp'r Implement"! Ham- 



mered or Molded,* by Piof. F. W. Put- 

 nam 490 



4. Note on Same,* by Editor 491 



GEOLOGY. 



1. Pliocene Formation of Southern Oregon, 



(Continued)* by Chas. H. Sternberg . . 491 



2. Prof. Schaeffer on the Burlington Gravel,*.492 



ZOOLOGY, 



1. Museum of Comparative Zoology at Har- 



vard College,* by Chas. H. Sternberg . 492 



2. Some Large Members of the Wasp Family,* 



by Rev. L. J. Temphn 494 



ASTRONOMY. 



1, Astronomical Notes for December, 1881,* 



by W. W. Alexander 496 



2. Solar Theories,* by Prof. H. S. S. Smith. 499 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Observations to November 20th, 1881,* by 



Prof. J. T. Lovewell 502 



2. Electric Self Registering Anemometer,* by 



Prof. H. E. Sadler 503 



3. The Winds hat Bring our Rains,* by A. 



. W. Browne 503 



4 Wha. is an Inch of Rain 506 



MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 



1. The Use of Powerful Remedies,* by J. B. 



Morrison, M. D 506 



2. Checking the Spread of Starlet-Fever . .508 



3. Hygienic Condi ion of Coal Mines . . . 508 



4. Salt as a Prophylactic in Diphtheria. . . . 508 



5. Gas in Treatment of VVhojpiug Cough . . 509 



BOOK NOTICES.* 



The New American Cyclopaedia, D. Apple- 

 ton & Co . . 509 



The Museum of Antiqu'ty, Wever & Co . ,il0 

 Archaeology, Government Printir-g Offi :e .511 

 Spain and the Spaniards, G. P. Putnam's 



Sons 512 



The Story of a Scandinavian Summer, G. 



P. Putnam's Sens 512 



Malaria, Pr sley Blakiston 513 



The Art of Speech, D. Appleton <fe Co . . 513 

 Text Book of Organic Chemistry, D. Van 



No^trand 514 



Other Publications Received 514 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



1. Unveiling of the Mudge Monument, by 



2. 



Jos. Savage 515 



Demands of ihe Mississippi Valley .... 517 

 3. The Sung of the Carbons 517 



EDITORIAL NOTES 



519 



ITEMS FROM THE PERIODICALS . 421 



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