EDITORIAL NOTES. 
711 
The remains of Lieutenant DeLong and 
party arrived at New York on tht afternoon 
of February 20th, and have since been inter, 
red with due honors. 
Prof. Paul Schweitzer, of the State Uni- 
vers'ty of Missouri, writes as follows on 
February nth: "I enclose postal order for 
^5 00 for two years subscription to the Ke- 
VIKW. Pardon he delay, which was par- 
tially caused by my late absence in Europe, 
and receive my appreciation of your efforts 
in maintaining a readable and interesiing 
scientific journal." 
WoLGEMUTH, the conductor of the Austra 
lian Expedition, has told some of the results 
of his work at a late meeting of the Vienna 
Geographical Society. He observed 124 au- 
roras, about ten of which were < rown-shaped. 
Among the old lava streams and in the crev- 
ices of the old and numerous craters of the 
island ( f Jan Mayen he discovered traces of 
asiill progressing vole nic activity, and three 
times observed well-marked subterranean 
shocks. 
A prize of ;?2,400 has been awarded by the 
Turin Academy of Sciences to Mr. Hormuzd 
Rassam fir his discoveries in the field of As- 
syrian and Babyl mian aniiquities. 
Prof. H. S. Pritchett, of the Washing- 
ton University, St. Louis, on last Monday 
night, Feb uary 25, delivered a lecture on 
his trip to New Zealand last year with the 
Transit-of-Venus expedition. The account 
was pretty much the same as that fom his 
pen pub'ished in the February Review, but 
was illustra'ed with numerous views. Mem- 
orial Hall w>is filled and the audience was 
well entertained. 
The suit against General Di Cesnola for 
alleged frauds in the Cyi riote antiquities 
sold by hini to the New York Museum of 
Arts has resul ed in his vindication, which is 
a source of congratulation, not only for him- 
self, but also for the museum. 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 
Subscribers to the REVIEW can be furnished 
through this office with all the best magazines of 
the Country and Europe, at a discount oj from 
I J to 20 per cent off the retail price. 
A mass convention of American inventors 
will be held in Cincinnati, beginning March 
25, 1884, in the Great Music Hall and Ex- 
position Building of that city. There is a 
universal feeling among inventors that some- 
thing must be done to protect their interests, 
and the convention to be held will seek to 
adopt some united form of action, and form 
state associations. All inventors and patent- 
ees are interested in this movement, and p11 
who can attend, and de.4re to do so, should 
at once address the chairman of the execu- 
tive committee, J S. Ze be, editor of the 
American Inventor, 188 West Fifth street, 
Cincinnati. Ohio. 
The opening paper in the Magazine of 
American History for February, by George 
Gary Fggles on, is a most effective piece of 
«ord-painting, the subject being ''Our First 
Ten Presidents " Dr. Cvrus Thomas, the 
learned antiquarian, follows with an excep- 
t onally readable essay on the ♦' Houses of 
the Mound-Builders." Minor Topics con- 
tains a Stirling letter from Lyon Gardiner 
Tyler, of Richmond, Va., concerning Presi- 
dent relati n to the Oregon Question ; also 
a vivid description of " Some of the Cavalry 
Fij^hts of the Comanches." The depart- 
ments of Notes, Queries, Replies, Societies, 
and Book Notices are remarkably well sus- 
tained. 1 his number of the Magazine is 
not>bly strong in all its varied and important 
featuies. 
Our former fellow citizen, J. E. Caven, is 
now publishing the Popular Monthly in Chi- 
cago, a magazine devoted to fir-t class litera- 
ture only. We have received the February 
number and find its contents able, entertain- 
ing, and varied and i's appearance a' trac- 
tive. Price %\ 50; clubbed with the Review, 
fj.oo. 
