Vol. VII. 
March, 1884. 
No. II. 
THE 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW 
OF 
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
EDITED BY 
THEO. S. C^SE. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
ABCHJEOLOGY. 
1. Pre-Histoi'ic Yankees.* Warren "Wat- 
son .... 649 
Notes from th e Ci-adle of Civilization.* 
Prof. Otis T. Mason 661 
Animal Mounds in Wisconsin . . 664 
Newly Discovered Ruins in Arizona .667 
An Aztec Calendar 669 
2. 
GEOLOGY. 
1. A Geological Lesson.* Prof. S. H. 
Trowbridge 670 
2. Explorations in Northeastern Ore- 
gon.'* C. H. Sternberg ... 674 
3. First Geological Exploration in Louis- 
iana* Captain E. A. Berthoud . .679 
4. Letter* from Prof. S. A. Maxwell . . 679 
PHYSICS. 
1. The Swiss Earthquake of 1881. 
3. 
Prof. 
A. S. Gatschet 
Early History of the Telegraph .... 681 
The Divining Rod 685 
MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 
1. Stove and Furnace Heat . . . 
2. Infectious Diseases 
HISTORY. 
1. The Kansas Academy of Science.* 
Rev. J. D. Parker, U. S. A 698 
BOOK NOTICES.* '.i 
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natur- 
al Sciences of i'hiladelphia. . . . 700 
2. Comedy Ballet of Gueguence. D. G. 
Brinton. 701 
3. Times of Charles XII. Jansen, Mc- 
Clurg&Co ... 701 
4. Early Victorian Authors. G. P. Put- 
nam's Sons. 702 
5. Twenty Poems from Longfellow 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co 702 
6. Famous Painters and Their Pictures. 
Lee.& Shepard ' 702 
7. Animal An tomatism and Other Es- 
says. J. Fitzgerald & Co 703 
8. Other Publications Received 70'5 
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 
1. Recently Patente<i_Improvements. 
2. 
J. C. Higdon, M. E . . 704 
Circular to County Surveyors in Kan- 
706 
sas. 
691 
METEOROLOGY. 
1. The Climate of Kansas.* Prof. F. H. 
Snow . . 691 
2. Kansas Weather Service.'-' Prof. J. 
T. Lovewell ... 695 
3. State Weather Bureaus 696 
-Written for the Review 
OBITUARY NOTICES. . 
1. Death of Di'. George ifcnglemann 
2, Death of Prof. Arnold Guyot. 
EDITORIAL NOTES 
ITEMS EROM PERIODICALS 
.707 
708 
.709 
711 
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