Vol. V. February, 1882. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



No. 10. 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



EDITED BY 



THEO. S. O^SE. 



TABLE OF 



PACK. 



GEOGBAPHY. 



1. Explorations in Idaho and Montana, by £. 



L. Berthoud 587 



2. The Lost Jeannette ... 591 



3. Tidings from the Polar Colony 592 



4. The Latest Expedition to the Lena .... 598 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



1. The Prehistoric Copper Implement Ques- 



2. 



tion,* Prof. H. A. Reid , 

 Our Possible Lemuroid Ancestor 



599 

 604 



ENGINEERING. 



1. The Tehuantepec Ship-Railway 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



1. . Science Letter from Pans,* . . . 



605 



,607 



PHILOSOPHY. 



1. An Apology for Nature,* David Eccles . . 610 



2. How Material Things Exist,* E. R. 



Knowles 614 



GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



1. The Chalk Beds of Wa Keeney, Kansas,* 



G. C. Broadhead 616 



2. The Genesis and Distribution of Gold . . .617 



3. The Mining Product of Colorado for 1881 . 6l9 



PROCEEDINGS OP SOCIETIES. 



1. The St. Louis Academy of Science .... 621 



2 Coral Life and Growth 623 



3. Canadian Academy of Art 62.5 



CONTENTS. 



PAOB. 



HISTORY. 



1. Who Destroyed the Alexandrian Library ?* 



Wm. Emmette Coleman 626 



2. Missouri Historical Notes, compiled by G. 



C. Broadhead C29 



3. Discovery of the American Continent . . . 630 



ASTRONOMY. 



1. Some Physical Changes on the Surface of 



Jupiter,* C. W. Pritchett .631 



1, Astronomical Notes for February, 1882,* 



W. W. Alexander 638 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Continuous Images of Lightning,* R. A. 



Blair . 635 



2. Kansas Weather Service,* Prof. J. T. Love- 



well 636 



3. Meteorological Notes,* Isaac P. Noyes . . 637 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



1. A Plea for Natural History Museums,* 



Prof. S H. Tiowbridge 648 



BOOK NOTICES.* 



1. Newfoundland to Manitoba. G. P. Put- 



nam's Sons 650 



2. Manual for U. S. Commissioners. Calla- 



ghan & Co . . . 651 



3. Transcendental Physics. Colby & Rich . 651 



4. Other Publications Received 652 



EDITORIAL NOTES 652 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS «54 



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