Vol. V. 



April, 1882. 



No. 12. 



THE 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW 



OF 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



EDITED BV 



THEO. S. O^^SE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



PAL.^O]SrTOIiOGY. 



1. Origin and Development 9f Existing Hors- 



es.* J. L. Wortman 726 



2. Europe Before the Arrival of Man .... 726 



3. Fossil Men and their Modern Representa- 



tives 732 



4. Eocene Fishes of Wyoming 731 



GEOLOGY, 



1. Archsan Rocks of Missouri.'^' G.C. Broad- 



head 735 



2. Value of our Coal Annually 738 



COKBESPONDENCE. 



1. Science Letter from Paris 



739 



ASTRONOMY. 



1. Scientific Charlatanism.* Professor H. S. 



Pritchett 742 



2. Comets, Their Composition, Purpose and 



EflFect on the Earth 745 



3. Astronomical Notes for April.* W, W. 



Alexander 752 



MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 



1. Sanitary Legislation of the Jews 754 



Brain-Growth and Civilization 759 



TheMorality of the Opium Trade 760 



The Exactness of the Science of Medicine.* 

 S. D. Bowker, M. D 764 



METEOROLOGY. 



J. Kansa? Weather Service,* Prof. J. T. LovC' 



well 



768 



BOOK NOTICES.* 



1. Rawlinson's History of Ancient Egypt. 



S. E . Cassino 769 



2. First Annual Report of the Bureau of Eth- 



nology 770 



3. The Gospel of the Stars. E. Claxton & Co.770 



4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 



Sciences of Philadelphia 771 



5. The Oyster Industry 771 



6. Other Publications Received 772 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



L Some Recent Improvements in the Me- 

 chanic Arts.* F. B. Brock 772 



2. Fire-Proof Buildings 764 



8. Varieties of Electric Light ' 777 



4. Arts and Science of Ancient Rome* . . .778 



5 Notes and Queries 779 



6. Benevolence for Science 734 



EDITORIAL NOTES 780 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS 



,782 



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