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Vol. VII. 
April, 1884. 
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12. 
THE 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW 
OF 
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, 
EDITED BY 
THEO. S. Ci^LSE, 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PAGE, 
EDUCATION. 
1. The Relations of Law and Medicine.* 
Judge S. O. Thacher 713 
MINERALOGY AND METALLUBGY. 
1. The Earliest Use of Iron 722 
2. The World's Supply of Coal 727 
3. The Coal of Kansas 728 
4. Tin Ore 731 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
1. Distribution of the Coleoptera of 
Kansas.* Warren Kraus 733 
MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 
1. Steam Heating 735 
ENGINEERING. 
1. The Ohio River Flood of 1884,* Rev. 
A. E. Wells 740 
2. The Panama Canal ... 743 
3. River Improvements.* W. H. Miller744 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
1. Relics of the Santa Barbara Indians.* 
Stephen Bowers, Ph.D 748 
2. The Aztecs.* Capt. E. L. Berthoud . 751 
3. The Upright Attitude of Mankind . . 753 
METEOROLOGY 
1. Kansas Weather Service.* Prof. J. 
T. Lovewell 757 
PASB. 
2. The Weather of the Past Seventeen 
Years.* Prof. F. H. Snow 758 
3. Weather Proverbs.* S. A. Maxwell . 759 
ASTRONOMY. 
1. Astronomical Notes for April, 1884.* 
W.W.Alexander 763 
2. Velocity.— I.* Edgar L. Larkin ... 764 
BOOK NOTICES.* 
1. The Unity of Nature. G.P.Putnam's 
Sons. .768 
Diseases and Injuries of the Horse. 
Wm. Wood & Co . . 769 
What I saw in Europe. Kansas 
Publishing House 769 
Vagabondia. Jas. R. Osgood & Co . . 769 
The Resources of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. Leader Printing Co 770 
The Words of Christ. G. P. Putnam's 
Son's 770 
7. Other Publications Received 771 
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 
1. A Visit to the Afflicted Cattle Re- 
gion of Kansas.* Dr. S. B. Bell. . . 772 
2. Recently Patented Improvements.* 
J. C. Higdon, M. E ... 773 
EDITORIAL NOTES .774 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS ... .776 
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