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pure and dangerous oils, and he believed that stringent laws should be enacted^ 
Miss Mara Becker, of Washburn College, read a short paper on the "Well- 
Waters of College Hill " giving in tabular form the results of a number of chemi- 
cal analyses of the well-waters on the college grounds. 
Mr. R. R. Moore, of Washburn College, gave some *' Notes on Waters Used 
by the Sonora R. R. Co., in Steam-Boilers, " the results of a series of practical 
experiments by himself. 
Mr. H. R. Bull, of Washburn College, closed the programme with "Notes 
on Tea Analysis," the results of another series of experiments. 
A resolution was passed by the Academy thanking the Capital a.nd Common- 
wealth for their reports of the proceedings, in which we cordially join, having 
freely used them in this account. The names of C. S. Gleed and Rev. L. Blakes- 
ley, of Topeka, were presented for membership and they were accepted. 
With a few parting words to the members of the Academy and urgent re^ 
quests to be present at the next annual meeting to be held at Lawrence, the pres- 
ident pronounced the meeting adjourned. 
In the evening the members of the Academy and their friends were pleas- 
antly entertained at the home of Prof. J. T. Lovewell, near Washburn College. 
In a paper read at the recent meeting of the National Academy of Sciences,. 
Prof. J. S. Newberry gave the results of his thirty years' travel and investigation 
in those parts of North America, which bear evidence of glaciation. He claims 
to have found conclusive testimony that at least one-half of the continent has 
been the seat of ancient glaciers, some of which must have been at least 500,000^ 
feet in thickness. The proofs are most pronounced, he says, in Washington Ter- 
ritory, and among the lakes and fissures of Yellowstone Park, where geologists 
sent out for the purpose by the Government are now engaged in making a thor- 
ough and systematic examination. He adds that he is fully convinced that the 
irregular line of lakes in the eastern part of British America was formerly a river 
in which glaciers settled and widened and broke the bed of the river. 
ENGINEERING, 
THE ALLEGHANY PORTAGE RAILROAD. 
H. C. WEAVER. 
The discussions concerning Captain Eads' ship railroad across the Isthmus 
within the last few years calls to mind a similar railroad built and operated in 
Pennsylvania when I was a boy, some details of which may interest the readers, 
of the Review. 
