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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE^ 
We observe that most of the Kansas edi- 
tors, in their defcriptions of the excursion 
to Mexico draw freely (as we do also) upon 
the pointers, folders and circulars furnished 
by the Passenger Department of the A., T. 
& S. F. R. R. This is a compliment' to Mr. 
J. S. McLain, formerly of this city, who is 
the reliable author and compiler of most of 
them and whose accuracy is unquestioned. 
F. W. Cragin, Sc. B., of Washburn Col- 
lege, Topeka, is one of the first western writ- 
ers who has described the structure and habits 
of the Copepods or oar-footed Crustacea of 
North America. This article is published 
in full in the "Transactions of the Kansas 
Academy of Science for 1882. 
The New York Life Insurance Company 
sends to its friends a handsome lithograph 
published by Root & Tinker, entitled "Ori- 
gin of the Stars and Stripes," and accompan- 
ies it with an explanatory pamphlet contain- 
ing numerous facts relating to the genealogy 
of Washington, and the origin of our flag 
that will be new to most readers. 
Among the recent novels of the Trans-At- 
lantic Series published by G. P. Putnam's 
Sons, none are more interesting or ably writ- 
ten than King Capital by Wm. Sime, or My 
Trivial Life, in two volumes, by A Plain 
Woman, All the numbers of the series so 
far as we have seen them are vigorous in 
style and of a healthy moral tone. 50c each. 
Prof. D. A. Bassett, of Wabash College, 
Indiana, says, " I have not forgotten my 
promise to you to write an item on Crinoids 
for your Review. I intend to do it yet. I 
like the RtviEW^ very much and inclose 
postal order for $2.50 for the year," 
Prof, J, E, Siebel, Analytical and Con- 
sulting Chemist and Editor of the Ame?ican 
Chemical Review, Chicago, writts "Please 
send No. i, Vol. VI of the Review, so that 
I may have the whole volume complete for 
convenient reference." 
Prof. G. C, Broadhead, late State Geol- 
ogist of Missoari, writes as follows : " The 
Keview may not be financially successful but 
it is certainly a valuable collection of inform- 
ation interesting to ihe people of the Missis- 
sippi Valley and the entire Rocky Mountain 
slope. My means are meagre but I must 
have it." 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 
Subscribers to the Review can be furnished 
through this office with all the best magazines 0} 
the Country and Europe, at a discount of frofn 
j^ to 20 per cent off the retail price. 
Harper'' s Weekly for May 26th is largely 
devoted to a description, with admirable il- 
lustrations, of the opening of the wonderful 
New York and Brooklyn Bridge on May 24th. 
Number 7 of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity Studies in Historical and Political Science 
is entitled "Old Maryland Manors," by John 
Johnson, A. B., and is the most interesting 
writer we have yet received. These Studies 
are edited by Herbert IS. Adams, and pub- 
lished monthly in pamphlet shape; ^3.00 per 
annum. 
The Patent-Office News is the name of a 
weekly, sixteen-page, octavo, recently started 
by Messrs. Howe and Nicholas, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. It is devoted to patent matters 
of all kinds. If the work of editing continues 
to be as thoroughly done as it is in the fir.-t 
few numbers, the News will be of great value 
to inventors and the public generally. 
The Scientific American, for May 26th, con- 
tains an illustrated article descriptive of a 
method proposed by John C. Goodridge, C. 
E., for erecting the pedestal and statue of 
"Liberty Enlightening the World," without 
the vast expense of scaffolding. It is, in 
brief, to construct the statue first and place 
it upon the site of the pedestal, then grad- 
ually push it upward as the masonry of the 
pedestal is completed beneath it. The plan 
seems admirably effective. 
