EDITORIAL NOTES. 
649 
to Prof. Gustavus Hin- 
richs, Director of the Iowa Weather Service, 
for a neat pamphlet comprising a report on 
the seasons in Iowa and a calendar for 1884. 
Pof. Hinrichs is a veteran meteorologist, 
and the Weather Service of Iowa is exceed 
ingly complete. 
We also find in the Quarterly Report of 
the State Board of Agriculture of Kansas, a 
very comprehensive report upon the Meteor- 
ology of Kansas for 1883, by Prof. J. T. Love- 
well, of Washburn College, Topeka, who is 
State Meteorologist at present. It is exceed- 
ingly full and satisfactory. 
John E. Potter & Co., of Philadelphia, 
have just issued " The Elements of Botany," 
a new text-book, prepared by Prof. W. A. 
Kellerman, of the Kansas State Agricul'ural 
College. It is designed either for school use 
or for independent study, and is especially 
adapted to those students who are unable to 
give several years to this subject. An im- 
portant feature, new to text-books of this 
science, is the department called '' Economic 
Botany," in which the principles of Botany 
are applied to practical uses. 
From the 13th Annual Report of the Kan- 
sas City Stock Yards by the Secretary, Mr. 
E. E. Richardson, we learn that the receipts 
of live stock for 1883 were as follows: Cat- 
tle, 460,780; Hogs, 1,379.401 ; Sheep, 119,- 
665 ; Horses and Mules, 19,860. For the 
whole thiiteen years they were: Cattle, 
3,183,071 ; Hogs, 6,637,007 ; Sheep, 577,384 ; 
Horses and Mules, 108,474. 
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 J to 20 per cent off the retail price. 
The Atlantic Monthly for February, 1884, 
presents the following table of contents: In 
War-Time, HI., IV., S. Weir Mitchell, A 
Trio for Twelfth-Night, H. Bernard Carpen- 
ter. Voices of Power, O. B. Frothingham. 
A Roman Singer, XV., XVI., F. Marion 
Crawford. The Vagabonds and Criminals 
of India, Elizabeth Robins. Newpor*^, XVIII.- 
XIX., George Parsons Lathrop. A Memory, 
A. A. Dayton, En Province, VI., Henry 
James. To-Day, Helen Gray Cone. In Ma- 
deira Place, C. H. White. A Visit to South 
Carolina in i860, Edward G. Mason, Rem- 
iniscences of Christ's Hospital, J. M. Hillyar. 
Foreshadowings, Julia C. R. Dorr, The 
Confederate Cruisers. Mr. Trollope's Latest 
Character. Greater Britain and the United 
States. Mr. Crawford's To Leeward. The 
History of Sculpture. The Contributors' 
Club. Books of tlie Month. 
The Adrian (Mich,) Zi'/w^j is the first news- 
paper ever printed by power generated 
through the successful combustion of petro- 
leum or any of its products. In the burner 
used the patentees seem to have solved the 
long sought for desideratum, the perfect and 
economical combustion of petroleum and its 
products, for the generation of heat. 
Prof. Emil Seifert, who is well known 
to our citizens as a musician of eminent at- 
tainments, has commerced the publication of 
a weekly quarto periodical entitled, '' The 
Western Art of America." The four numbers 
which have appeared give assurance of his 
talent and fitness for the work, and it is to 
be hoped that the citizens of this place and 
vicinity will give it a hearty and liberal sup- 
port. $3,00 per annum. 
The Ft. Scott Monitor announces that a 
deposit of paraffine and crude oil has been 
discovered near Fontana, Kansas, at a depth 
of thirty-five feet below the surface. 
The fifty-second number of the Humboldt 
Library of Science comprises M. Th. Ribot's 
essay on "The Diseases of the Will," in 
which the various phenomena of impaired 
will power are carefully discussed and ex- 
plained, with abundant illustrations from the 
history of many celebrated cases. Published 
by J. Fitzgerald & Co., New Yorkj 15c. 
