EDITORIAL NOTES. 
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D. H. Talbot, a well-known scienti&t of 
Sioux City, Iowa, has prepared a memorial 
or open letter to Congress, urging the pro- 
priety and importance of establishing in the 
National Park, a grand Zoological Garden, 
where the various species of wild animals of 
at least the north-west can be collected and 
their habits studied under far more favorable 
circumstances than anywhere else. It is a 
valuable suggestion, and the naturalists of 
the country should aid in carrying it into 
eflFect. 
Mr. F. a. Sampson, one of the contribu- 
tors of the Review, delivered an interesting 
address at Sedalia on the I2th of February, 
in advocacy of the establishment of a Natural 
History Society there. Missouri presents a 
wonderful field for naturalists and such socie- 
ties ; wherever organized, can find an abund- 
ance of material to work upon and can be of 
the greatest service to science in general, and 
at the same time assist in the developem nt 
of the resources of the State. 
Judge F. G. Adams, Secretary of the Kan- 
sas State Historical Society, has learned that 
in 1856 an Englishman, named Buckeridge, 
published some views of this city and points 
in Kansas, and is very anxious to ascertain 
whether or not any of our older citizens pos- 
sess any of them. 
On the 4th ultimo the Kansas City Medi- 
cal College held its 15th annual commence- 
ment. Addresses were delivered byjudte 
S. O. Thacher, of Lawrence, K insas, Profes- 
s 'r J. H. Van Eman, M. D., and Professor 
T. B. Lester, M. D., and diplomas granted 
to fifteen yotJng gentlemen. On the 13th 
■ iiist. the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Kansas City, held its third annual 
commencement. Addresses were delivered 
by the President of the Board of Regents, 
Rev, N. Scarritt, D, D., and by Professor J. 
M. Allen, M. D. The degree of Doctor of 
Medicine was conferred upon thirteen young 
gentlemen. On the 14th inst. the Hospital 
Medical College held its second annual com- 
mencement. Addresses were delivered by 
Hon. R. T. Vanllorn, Prof. J. Thorne, M. 
D , Mrs. Emma J. Kimmell, and Rev. J. H. 
Savage ; the latter upon ''Reform and Pro- 
gress in the Colleges." Diplomas were 
granted to nine members of the graduating 
class. 
The tornado season has commencedj and, 
what is a little singular so far, the localities 
affected have been principally east of the 
Mississippi River. 
The late Prof. J. Lawrence Smith's private 
collection of meteorites, the largest in the 
world, has been bought by Harvard College 
for $10,000. 
Dr Stephen Bowers, who is now a resi- 
dent of San Buenaventura, California, au- 
thorizes us to say that the article we copied 
from the Santa Barbara Independent is utt rly 
ialse, so tar as it relates to Indian skulls hav- 
ing been found with false teeth and the 
fin(iing of mortars and pestles of agate. Dr. 
Bowers has visited the collection said to have 
contained these finds, and pronounces it a 
fabrication for which the reporter of the 
above named paper alone is responsible. 
No such things have ever been found among 
the Santa Barbara stock of Indians. 
The arrival at Kangas City on the 27th ult. 
of the first through train from the City of 
Mexico, was an occasion of much rejoicing, 
as this road adds another grand feeder to our 
comm< rce. The trade of New and Old Mex- 
ico has always been a source of profit to this 
city, in fact was the origin of it in the days 
when it was merely a landing for sfeainboats 
discharging their carg<ies of freight ior the 
distant points in those States. The immen- 
sity of this trade in the future is incalculable. 
The whole northern half of the western 
addition to the University of Missouri, is to 
be used as a scientific museum. Prof. G. C. 
Broadhead, former State Geologist of Mis- 
souri, has recently spent several months in 
overhauling and arranging the immense 
quantity of specimens on hand there, some 
