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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



any numbers of the first or second volume 

 can have them supplied gratis by the editor, 

 and they can also have either or both years' 

 numbers handsomely bound in half morocco 

 and cloth sides /or $i per volume. 



Back Numbers. — To any subscriber for 

 the coming year we will furnish the back 

 numbers of the first and second year for 

 #2.25 each set, bound, or $1.25 each, unbound. 



We shall publish in the next issue of the 

 Review a profusely illustrated archaeological 

 article, by Prof. F. W. Putnam, of the Pea- 

 body Museum, descriptive of his remarkable 

 discoveries in Tennessee. 



The regular lighting of Monumental Park, 

 in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Brush electric 

 light, commenced April 29th, being the first 

 regular public lighting with electric light in 

 any city in the United States. The effect ful- 

 ly demonstrates its success. It gives three 

 times more light than was formerly given by 

 1 10 gas-burners, there being only twelve elec- 

 tric lights used. The light, under contract, 

 costs the city $100 per year less than the gas 

 formerly used. 



We are under lasting obligations to Hon. 

 B. J. Franklin for a copy of Walker's Statis- 

 tical Atlas of the United States, a most valu- 

 able work of reference, and one which ex- 

 ceeds in comprehensiveness of plan and 

 excellence of execution anything of the kind 

 ever published. 



The article in this number of the Review 

 upon "An Eleven Years' Period of Sun-Spot 

 Observations," is the work of the Quaker 

 shoemaker-astronomer, William Dawson, of 

 Spiceland, Indiana, a self-taught mathemati- 

 cian and observer, who, though dependent 

 upon his daily toil for a living, has had the zeal 

 and energy to partly earn and partly manu- 

 facture, with his own hands, a fine telescope, 

 which is mounted upon his humble shop, and 

 with which he has made observations in as- 

 tronomy that have rendered his name well 

 known among the best scientists of Europe 

 and America. His is almost a parallel case 

 with that of Thomas Edwards, the Scottish 



shoemaker naturalist, recently made famous 

 by Samuel Smiles, and it is to be hoped that 

 equal or greater good fortune may overtake 

 our astronomer and put him in condition to 

 prosecute his favorite study untrammeled by 

 the cares of bread-getting. 



The address of Dr. Fee before the Kansas 

 City Academy of Science, March 25th, upon 

 "The Science of Language," was a most in-' 

 teresting and scholarly production, and gave 

 great pleasure to his audience. Being largely 

 oral, we regret our inability to present it to 

 the readers of the Review. 



That of Prof. B. F. Mudge, the veteran 

 geologist of Kansas, at the April meeting, 

 upon "Mines and Mining," although of en- 

 tirely different character, was listened to by a 

 full house with great attention and interest. 

 Prof. Mudge uses no notes, and his manner 

 of delivery is remarkably free and pleasant — 

 almost conversational. 



The Monthly Summary of scientific progress 

 is becoming quite a feature of the Academy 

 meetings, and those of Prof. Parker, at the 

 March, and of Rev. Dr. Roberts, at the April 

 meeting, were models in their way. 



The lecture on "The National Yellowstone 

 Park," by Prof. W. I. Marshall, to be given 

 at Coates' Opera House, May 9th, will be, be- 

 yond question, the most acceptable entertain- 

 ment ever offered to the intelligent people of 

 Kansas City, and the Academy of Science de- 

 serves the thanks of the community for se- 

 curing for them so great a treat. Aside from 

 Prof. Marshall's fascinating style as a lec- 

 turer, the stereopticon illustrations are abso- 

 lutely superb, being from photographs of all 

 the wonders of that marvelous region, taken 

 by a thoroughly scientific and artistic opera- 

 tor, under the most favorable circumstances, 

 and handled in the most skillful manner by 

 Prof. Marshall's competent assistant. 



The third annual meeting of the Kansas 

 City Academy of Science will take place on 

 the evening of the last Tuesday in May, at 

 which time an anniversary address will be 

 delivered by Rev. James Marvin, Chancellor 

 of the Kansas State University ; officers elect- 



