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■of US." It is to be hoped, neither is it improbable, that the youth of the com- 
ing generation, instead of being impressed by teachers and associates and the 
press with the idea that the dramatic profession is an unworthy one, will find it a 
profession second to none, and will consider success therein an aim worthy of 
the noblest and most gifted. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
The Eighth Anniversary Meeting of the 
Kansas City Academy of Sciences was held 
at the First Baptist Church in this city on 
the 29th day of May. The exercises consist- 
ed of the Reports of the various officers, an 
address by the retiring President Hon. R. T, 
"VanHorn, and the election of the new officers, 
as follows : 
President, Hon. R. T. Van Horn; Vice 
President, W. H. Miller ; Recording Secre 
tary, Dr. R. W. Brown ; Corresponding Sec 
retary, Theo. S. Case; Treasurer, Dr. S. D 
Bowker ; Librarian and Curator, Sidney J 
Hare ; Member of the Executive Committee, 
Dr. John Fee, 
Professor John D. Parker, was unanimously 
elected an Honorary Member of the Acade- 
my as a token of its remembrance of his 
faithful services during its early history. 
The address of the President, entitled "The 
Progress of Science during the Past Year," 
was a full and able resume of recent discover- 
ies in science and of progress in scientific 
thought. It was very warmly received and 
will be published in full in the next issue of 
the Revikw. 
Our citizens cannot do better than to foster 
the Academy of Science in all practicable 
ways. They will be proud of it some day. 
Dr. Edwin R. Heath, whose explorations 
in South America have given him a world- 
wide reputation among geographers, and 
whose articles in the Review have been 
copied widely, has recently had conferred 
■upon him by the Royal Geographical Society 
of England, the position of one of its three 
Honorary Corresponding Members elected in 
1883. In the letter of announcement Hon. 
H. W, Bates, the Assistant Secretary, who is 
also a great traveler and author, compliments 
the Doctor upon the superior correctness of 
his maps over any that have been published 
hitherto. 
The Semi- Annual Meeting of the Social 
Science Club, for Kansas and western Mis- 
souri, was held at Wyandotte, Kansas, on 
the 17th and i8th of May last. The pro- 
ceedings were marked by dignity and ability, 
and are highly creditable to the literary and 
scientific tastes and attainments of our west- 
ern ladies. The Society was organized at 
Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1881, with the ob- 
ject to promote intellectual growth, raise the 
standard of woman and open new fields of 
labor to her. It is composed entirely of 
ladies, and marks a new era in women's aspir- 
ations which is prophetic of a higher plane 
of womanly dignity and attainments. 
William Sims, Secretary of the State 
Board of Agriculture of the State of Kansas, 
has prepared an admirably complete and 
comprehensive statement in a pamphlet 
of sixty pages, of the resources, capabilities, 
position, dimensions and topography of Kan- 
sas, with statistics concerning its lands, agri- 
culture, horticulture, live stock, schools, 
manufactures, mines, minerals, etc., which 
will be sought for all over the country. It 
is also being printed for gratuitous distribu- 
tion, in the German, Swedish and Danish 
languages. 
