EDITORIAL NOTES. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
The Kansas City Academy of Science has 
received contributions to its museum from 
the following named gentlemen during the 
past month: From Gen'l John A. Haider- 
man, Minister to Siam, 22 small rubies; from 
A. M. Stalnaker, of Springfield, Mo., two 
pieces of mastodon tusks ; from Geo. R. War- 
ren, of Kansas City, a copy of Thomas' Mas- 
sachusetts Spy or Worcester Gazette, dated 
July I, 1812; from J. W. Phillips, a large 
petrified root of a tree; from H. Holbrook, a 
very handsome specimen of zinc ore and a 
concretion simulating a vertebral bone. 
Dr. R. J. Brown, President of the Kansas 
Academy of Science, gave us a very pleasant 
call last month. He is decidedly in earnest 
about the work of the Academy during his 
administration, and has appointed the follow- 
ing named committees, every member of 
which is believed by him to be a zealous 
worker in his special department of science : 
Geology — O. H. St. John, Bobert Hay, and 
Joseph Savage. Mineralogy — G. H. Fail- 
yer, Geo. S. Chase, and E. S. H. Bailey. 
Chemistry — E. S. H. Bailey, H. E. Sadler, 
and J. D. Willard. Physics — J. T. Love- 
well, E. L. Nichols, and H. M. AUer.— Me- 
teorology — F. H, Snow, J. T. Lovewelt, and 
J. D. Parker. Astronomy and Mathematics 
— E. L. Nichols, D. E. Lauiz, and J. A. Lip- 
pincott. Botany — W. A. Kellerman, J. H. 
Carruth, and E. N. Plank. Entomology — 
E. A. Popenoe, F. H. Snow, and F. W. 
Cragin, Ornithology — F. H. Snow, N. S. 
Goss, and L. L. Dyche. Ichihyology — I. D. 
Graham, F. W. Cragin, and D. B. Long. 
Herpetology — F. W. Cragin, F. H. Snow, 
and H. R. Morse. Anthropology — A. H. 
Thompson, Frank Kiser, J. R. Mead. 
Capt. H. H. C. Dunwoody, of the U. S. 
Signal Office, at Washington, D. C, visited 
this city a few weeks since for the purpose of 
arranging for the establishing of a system of 
weather signals by which shippers and others 
can be warned of the approach of cold waves 
in time to prepare for them. If this system 
had been in operation on the first of January 
great loss of property and human suffering 
might have been prevented. Through Gen'l 
Nettleton and the Postmaster it has been ar- 
ranged to have two signal flags displayed, 
one in West Kansas City and one up town, 
as soon as they they can be sent out. Capt. 
Dunwoody is also endeavoring to have the 
meteorologists of each State Weather Service 
cooperate with the Chief Signal Officer and 
thus secure a more effective general system 
than ever before. 
Marshall L.Wolfe, Mining Inspector of 
Bates County, Mo., states in his Annual Re- 
port for 1883, that the number of acres of 
workable coal lands in the county has been 
increased by fresh discoveries and newly 
opened mines, from 95,000 to about double 
that number; that the number of mines oper- 
ated in 1883 was about 250 and the amount 
of capital employed in coal mining ^l,ooo,- 
oco. 
Baron Nordenksjold, the well known 
explorer of the Arctic regions, is contemplat- 
ing another voyage. He intends, however, 
to leave the beaten track this time and go 
southward to the Antarctic circle. The at- 
tempt will be made in 1885. 
The Secretary of the Navy has instructed 
Commander Upshur at the New York Navy 
Yard to make suitable arrangements for the 
reception of the remains of DeLong and oth- 
ers of the ill-fated Jeannette on their arrival, 
which will be about the 15th inst. Chief 
Engineer Melville and Lieut. Danenhauer 
will take prominent parts in the ceremony. 
It is expected that these remains will finally 
be interred at the Annapolis Naval Ceme- 
tery. 
