EDITORIAL NOTES. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Owing to the absence of the editor at the 
^meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, at Minneapolis, 
during the latter portion of August, the pub- 
lication of this number of the Review has 
been somewhat delayed. Besides this, we 
have only been able to give a few of the pa- 
pers read at that meeting, the greater part 
of the issue having been in print before we 
left home. Those that we give are among 
ithe best, however, and others will be pub- 
lished hereafter. 
The citizens of Minneapolis are deserving 
■of great credit for the success of their efforts 
to make the meeting agreeable and profitable 
to the members of the Association, and this 
was fully appreciated by all in attendance. 
Such meetings are of great benefit directly 
and indirectly to any city where they are 
held, and it would be of service to Kansas 
City to have such an one held here. The only 
obstacle in the way of our holding one that 
would be fully as satisfactory as that at Min- 
neapolis, is the absence of a suitable build- 
ing, like the University of Minnesota, in 
which to hold the sessions of the various Sec- 
tions, nine in number. 
A REPORT entitled "The Mineral Re- 
-sources of the United States " is now in press, 
and will shortly be published, by Mr. Albert 
Williams, Jr., chief of the Division of Min- 
ing Statistics and Technology, United States 
■Geological Survey, Hon. J. W. Powell, Di- 
rector. This report is for the calendar year 
1882 and the first six months of 1883. It 
contains detailed statistics for these periods 
and also for preceding years, together with 
much technical and descriptive matter. The 
compilatioa of special statistics has been 
placed by Mr. Williams in the charge of 
leading authorities in the several branches, 
and the results will therefore be accepted 
with confidence. 
Not the least pleasant feature of the Min- 
neapolis meeting, personally, was the ex- 
pression of hearty approbation of the course 
and management of the Review, voluntarily 
spoken by some of the most distinguished 
men present, and the surprise mnanifested by 
them that such a place as Kansas City, 
known to the country only as a busy com- 
mercial center, should have the taste and the 
disposition to support it. 
We are indebted to J. D. Carson, General 
Superintendent of the Union Depot of this 
city for a copy of an address apon " Techni- 
cal Training " delivered before the Alumni 
Association of Lehigh University, of which 
Mr. Carson is a graduate. 
We have received from the Secretary a 
copy of the Transactions of the Kansas Acad- 
emy of Science, Volume VIII, 1882-3, which 
will be fully noticed next month. 
Alderman Hadley, of London, to whose 
successful efforts to establish a new American 
British and Canadian Cable Company we 
referred last month, gave a reporter of the 
N. Y. World this important item, August 
1st, 1883: " We intend upon my return to 
England to make immediate arrangements 
for the full completion of the entire system, 
and shall proceed by laying a cable from 
Penzance to Sable Island, and from that 
point to Halifax. At the latter place we 
shall be connected with the entire telegraphic 
system of the Dominion of Canada, and by a 
favorable arrangement just completed with 
the American Postal Telegraph Company we 
shall have direct communication throughout 
the United States." 
Prof. T. Berry Smith is again in the 
chair of Natural Sciences at Pritchett Insti- 
tute, Glasgow, Mo., which opens September 
3d. 
