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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Volume VII commences with this issue of 
the Review, and we send it forth in the 
hope that it will meet with so favorable a 
reception that its future career will no longer 
be questionable. We are satisfied from a 
comparison with other magazines and from 
testimonials received from disinterested 
sources that the Review is worthy of the 
patronage of all friends of popular education 
in the west and that more valuable matter is 
furnished for the price than by any of its 
contemporaries. 
In addition to this, our terms to clubs and 
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In Philadelphia a committee consisting of 
seven architects, seven plumbers and seven 
physicians and citizens has been appointed 
to provide a plan for a systematic manage- 
ment of Sanitary matters and has recommend- 
ed to the city council an ordinance with 
rules and regulations fir regulating plumb- 
ing, house-drainage regulation and licensing 
of plumbers in that city. These rules and 
regulations are admirable and something 
similar should be adopted by municipal gov- 
ernments all over the country. Published by 
P. Blakiston & Co.; price lo cents. 
In the Proceedings of the Philadelphia 
Academy of Sciences Prof. Cope stated that 
the existence of Man in the Pliocene period 
would in his opinion soon be demonstrated, 
and adduced the Calaveras skull, said to 
have beenfoundin the gold-bearing gravel of 
California, as a very strong case in point, 
since it was partially filled with the solid ad- 
hesive "cement," characteristic of that an- 
cient formation. At the same meeting Pro- 
fessor H. Carvill Lewis objected to the Cal- 
averas skull as a proof of the antiquity of 
man, on the ground that the implements 
found with it were of modern workmanship, 
and the skull itself resembles that of a mod- 
ern Indian, Neither is the compact gravel 
adhering to it and in which it was found 
shown to have been previously undisturbed. 
Messrs. John Wiley & Sons announce 
the publication by them of the United States 
and British Official Metric Conversion Ta- 
bles, with an introduction by Professor R. 
H. Thurston. It is an octavo volume of 
ninety-six pages, and will be sold at #i.oo. 
This book will be found useful to every civil 
mining or mechanical engineer as well as to 
all other persons interested in scientific meas- 
urements and rules. 
Mr. Herbert B. Adams is editing a scries 
of articles upon Historical and Political Sub- 
jects entitled "Johns Hopkins University 
Studies." Those received so far are Number 
III, Lccal Government in Illinois, by Albert 
Shaw, A. B., and On Local Government in 
Pennsylvania, by E. R, L. Gould, A. B.; No. 
V, Local Government in Michigan and the 
Northwest, by Edward W. Benns, A. B., and 
No. VI, Parish Institutions in Maryland with 
illustrations from Parish Records, by Edward 
Ingle, A. B. These papers will be valuable 
contributions to American literature and his- 
tory. 
