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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
The Kansas City Academy of Science has 
recently purchased the valuable and exten- 
sive collection of fossils, minerals, archaeolog- 
ical relics, shells, birds and insects, made by 
Judge E. P. West during a number of years 
past. The Academy has also taken larger 
rooms, purchased some new cases for its en- 
larged collection and will soon have its li- 
brary and museum in order for the use and 
benefit of its members and the public. 
We were visited on the 20th of June by 
Dr. Steven bowers, of Falls City, Nebraska, 
The Doctor was for several years engaged in 
archaeological explorations on the Pacific 
Coast, part of the time under the direction 
of the Smithsonian Institution, and has writ- 
ten some valuable papers for the Review 
and other scientific magazines, besides send- 
ing a large number of highly prized speci- 
mens to the National Museum. He will 
soon return to California, from where he 
promises to send an occasional article for the 
benefit of our readers. 
The article upon "Steatite Quarries and 
Utensils," by Professor Broadhead, and the 
note by Professor Otis T, Mason on the same 
subject, were written in reply to an inquiry 
by us, whether the finding of a steatite pot 
in Central New Mexico, lately, was in any 
respect peculiar, the writer having never be- 
fore heard of any similar find, either ot the 
manufactured article or of the substance it- 
self in position in that region. 
The Tertio-Millennial Celebration of the 
settlement of Santa Fe, which commences 
this week, will be a highly interesting affair, 
and those persons who have never visited 
that portion of our country should take ad- 
vantage of this opportunity to observe! the 
manners and customs of a people and a civil- 
ization that are fast passing away and being 
merged in those of to-day. Railroads and 
Yankees are the antipodes of archaeology and' 
the antique, and it will be but a little while 
before all traces of the Aztec life will utterly 
disappear from New Mexico. 
The article on the History of Railroads in 
Missouri, in the present number, was written 
by Hon. Geo, C, Pratt, member of the State 
Board of Railroad Commissioners, and is the 
most complete and readable condensation of 
the subject that has yet been published. 
Professors, H, Trowbridge, of Glasgow,. 
Mo., who has spent many years teaching 
Natural History, is now devoting himself to 
supplying schools, colleges, or individuals 
with suitable collections of illustrative speci- 
mens. We know of no man in the west more 
able or better prepared to do this satisfactor- 
ily. 
Professor R, T, Bond, of Glasgow, Mo., 
in remitting for the Review says, " I prize 
it very highly and wish you much success in 
its publication." 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 
The Atlantie Monthly for July, 1883, pre- 
sents the following attractive table of con- 
tents : A Roman Singer, I, II, F, Marion 
Crawford. Some Phases of Idealism in New 
England, O. B. Frothingham. A Prelude^ 
Maurice Thompson. En Province, I, Henry 
James. Something Passes, Edith M. Thomas. 
Tompkins, P. Deming, Service, E. E. Sill, 
Oxford in Winter, Harriet Waters Preston. 
Newport, I, II, George Parsons Lathrop. 
Boomtown, Frank D. Y. Carpenter, Muni- 
cipal Extravagance, Arthur Blake Ellis. Mr. 
Washington Adams in England, II, Richard 
Grant White, Sylvan Station, Caroline E. 
Leighton. American Fiction by Women. 
Jones Very, American Economics, The 
Freedom of Faith, Dobson's Fielding. The 
Contributors' Club, Books of the Month, 
