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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
At the thirteenth annual meeting of the 
Troy Scientific Association, Mr. Thomas Pray, 
Jr., editor of Cotton^ Wool and Iron, exhib- 
ited some photographs of cotton and wool 
fibres, executed by himself, which excited the 
admiration and enthusiasm of all who saw 
them, as representing these fibres more per- 
fectly than is usual under the best microscope, 
unless in the most expert hands. 
Prof. E. T. Nelson, of the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, reports 9,202 specimens added to 
its museum for the year ending June 15, 1883. 
Alderman Hadley, of London, the fa- 
mous electrician and capitalist, is in New 
York investigating the American system of 
telegraphing, and is largely interested in the 
new cables to be laid from New York to Lon- 
don soon, in connection with the Postal Tel. 
egraph Company's lines. He is also inter- 
ested in a new line between New York and 
Chicago and New York and Cleveland, which 
is expected to compel the reduction of tele- 
graphic rates, all through the East, at least. 
We have received a note from the Secre- 
tary of the Tuscan Society of Natural History 
at Pisa, Italy, which is so complimentary in 
its character that we reproduce it literally : 
" Pisa, 18 Jun, 1883. 
"Sir: — The Societa Toscana di Scienza 
Naturali have only received of the Kansas 
Review Vol. III., No. 10; Vol. IV., No. 8 ; 
Vol. Vr., No. I, 4, 5. She your pray to sent 
the other party." 
Secretary. 
Robert Howell, of Nichols, N. Y., has 
twenty volumes of the U. S. Coast Survey 
Report, 1851 to 1870, for sale low, or for 
exchange for books on science, history or 
travel. 
John P. Jones, now of Kingman, Kansas, 
who has furnished several valuable historical 
articles in the past, says: "I enclose ^5.00 
for the Review. I trust you will be able to 
keep its head above water until it becomes 
well enough appreciated to be [a source of 
profit as well of pleasure to||you." 
We are indebted to Dr. Edwin R. Heath 
for copies of the Bulletins of the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society of England for the months 
of January, February, March, April and May, 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 
Subscribers to the Review can be furnished 
through this office with all the best magazines oj 
the Country and Europe, at a discount of from 
i_$ to 20 per cent off the retail price. 
The Modern Argo, of this city, is the best 
society weekly published in the west. It is 
edited by Mrs. Jennie M. Hicks, and its bus- 
iness manager is Mr. Isaac N. Hicks, both 
veterans in the newspaper business in the 
Missouri Valley. The Argo has deservedly a 
widely extended and a rapidly increasing 
circulation. 
With its issue of July 5th, the Art Inter- 
change entered upon its eleventh volume. 
During the five years of its publication this 
journal has grown from a four-paged sheet — 
without illustrations, supplement sheet, or 
"questions and answers" to one of sixteen 
pages, with a profusion of illustrations repre- 
sentative of both pictorial and decorative 
art, and an inquiry department, which, for 
fullness, accuracy, helpfulness, and diversity 
of subjects treated, is unrivalled. It is pro- 
posed in the present volume to continue the 
illustration of designs suitable for furniture 
and general decorations in answer to requests, 
and to continue also to issue '' Notes and 
Queries Supplements." 
The most important step in advance, how- 
ever, is the publication at intervals of one 
month — after January, 1884, making twelve 
in the course of a year — of studies in color. 
These will include flower and figure subjects, 
and each design will be in several colors. 
The Western Scientist, a monthly magazine 
devoted to the natural sciences is announced 
to appear very soon. It is to be published 
by the Western Scientist Co., at Ottumwa, 
Iowa, at ^2.00 per annum. 
