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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
To any person remitling to us the annual stib- 
scription price of any three of the prominent lit- 
eral y or scientific magazines of the United 
States, we will promptly furnish the same, and 
the Kansas City Review, besides, without 
additional cost, for one year. 
During the fall of 1883 a very large vein of 
fuller's earth was discovered in Dallas Coun- 
ty, this State, which proved to be of excellent 
quality ; equal if not superior to any found 
either in Germany or England. It is in sev- 
eral colors, yellowish-white, light brown and 
dark-reddish brown, and is pronounced first- 
class by both Professor Prescott, of Michigan 
University, and Carl Wenntrock, a German 
Mining Engineer of note. Mr. Wm. Jones, 
a chemist of this city, has analyzed it and 
finds a higher percentage of silicate of alum- 
inum than is present in the English article. 
A company has, been formed in this city to 
mine and sell it to manufacturers of woolen 
cloths, etc. 
Mr. Walter G. Mellier, of this city, 
brought home with him, from Colorado and 
New Mexico, some interesting relics of the 
former civilization of those regions, which he 
presented to the Kansas City Academy of 
Science. All such specimens are gladly re- 
ceived by the Academy, and our citizens may 
be assured that whatever they donate, geo- 
logical, mineralogical, archaeological, etc., 
will be labeled with the name of the donor, 
and carefully preserved. 
Prof. Baird, of the U. S. Fish Commis- 
sion, thanks the Life Saving Corps for rescu- 
ing from the ocean and preserving to science 
several rare and unique specimens of salt- 
water fishes. 
The completion of the Kansas City, Spring- 
field & Memphis R. R. is very properly a 
matter of great self-congratul3.tion among the 
older citizens of this city, by whom it was 
planned more than twenty years ago.* The 
immediate execution of the design is due to 
General Manager Geo. H. Nettleton, of the 
Kansas City, Ft, Scott & Gulf R. R., who 
has given all his energies to it for many 
months. The first freight train over the line 
consisted of fifty-six cars, all loaded in this 
city and gaily decorated by the shippers. 
Texas has decided to abandon the system 
of letting the labor of its convicts for outside 
work on railways and farms, and is about to 
employ 1,000 convicts in the reduction of 
iron ore at the Rusk penitentiary. 
Professor Snow, of the Kansas Universi- 
ty, has lately received large accessions to his 
museum in the way of mastodon bones from 
Kansas, and other fossils from Iowa. He 
also has our old friend. Judge E. P. West, in 
the field collecting archaeological and geolog- 
ical specimens. 
The noted chemist, Professor J. Lawrence 
Smith, recently died at his residence in Louis- 
ville, Ky. He was an eminent scientist and 
a very prominently useful citizen, and his 
loss will be severely felt, both by his scien- 
tific associates and by his family, some mem- 
bers of which live in this city. 
Lieut. Stoney, of the Revenue Cutter 
"Corwin," reports the discovery in northern 
Alaska of an immense river hitherto unknown 
to geographers. 
Dr. Edwin R. Heath, the well known 
South American explorer, was married on 
Monday, October 15th, to Miss Jennie E. 
Gregory, of Jersey City, N. J., daughter of 
Mr. George Gregory, one of Dr. Heath's 
companions in the wilds of Bolivia. 
Several samples of zinc found a short 
distance southeast of Butler, Missouri, have 
been brought in recently and are pronounced 
fine ore by parties who have had experience 
'in mining this metal. 
A paper read by W. M. Bowson at the Col- 
orado Meeting of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineer seems to show that titanium 
is destined to become an important addition 
to the metallurgy of the future. 
