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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Howgate scheme of progressive colonization 

 of the polar regions. This subject deserves 

 the attention of Congress, and will doubtless 

 receive it before the close of the session. 



The Archives of Medicine 'is a new bi-month- 

 ly journal of 112 pages, edited by Prof. E. C. 

 Seguin, M. D., assisted by Drs. T. H. Mc- 

 Bride, M. D. Mann and L. H. Stimson, with 

 an able corps of collaborators. Published by 

 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York ; $3 per year. 



Robt. F. Clarke & Co. send us a pamphlet 

 containing two lectures written by Gen. M. 

 F. Force, the first on " Some Early Notices 

 of the Indians of Ohio," and the second enti- 

 tled "To What Race Did the Mound-Build- 

 ers belong ? " both of which show much re- 

 search and original speculation ; and the latter 

 especially will be of great interest to archseol" 

 ogists and is an important contribution to the 

 literature of the pre-historic period. 



The Atlantic for June will be a number of 

 extraordinary interest. It will contain a study 

 of a " New England Factory Town," by the 

 author of "Certain Dangerous Tendencies in 

 American Life; " a sharply critical paper on 

 "Wood Engraving and its Corruptions," by 

 Mr. W. J. Linton, the greatest living master 

 of the art ; an essay by Charles Dudley Warner; 

 a literary study by T. B. Aldrich ; an abund- 

 ant installment of " Irene the Missionary ; " a 

 very striking story of New England life in one 

 number ; a humorous story of Southern life ; 

 a sketch by W. D. Howells ; a criticism of 

 the exhibitions of the Artists' Association and 

 the National Academy ; and other tales, 

 sketches, articles and poems, besides very full 

 "Contributors' Club" and "Literary No- 

 tices." 



Professor Barff's article in Van Nos- 

 trand's Magazine for May, on "1 he Treat- 

 ment of Iron to Prevent Corrosion," is one 

 which should be widely read by iron manu- 

 facturers, and its principles applied to every 

 article manufactured by them, especially such 

 as are to be exposed to the action of the 

 weather. From the examples given by him it 

 is evident that he has hit upon a perfectly suc- 



cessful and feasible plan for accomplishing a 

 long-looked-for desideratum in the mechan- 

 ical arts. 



The Popular Science Monthly begins its fif- 

 teenth volume with the May number, which 

 contains at least its usual amount of first-class 

 articles. Messrs. Youmans have built up 

 this journal under great difficulties, but it 

 has now become one of the essentials to every 

 reading man's study table, and they and the 

 publishers are reaping a suitable reward. 



Owing to the sad bereavement of the gen- 

 ial Permanent Secretary of the A. A. A. S., 

 Prof. F. W. Putnam, he has been prevented 

 from activity in arranging the preliminaries 

 for the Saratoga meeting. He therefore del- 

 egated his powers to Prof. H. C. Bolton, of 

 Trinity College, Hartford, and to Prof. D. S. 

 Martin, of Rutger's Female College, New 

 York City, as a committee of two. Dr. Bol- 

 ton's previous experience in these matters will 

 be of the greatest benefit to the Association 

 as well as to the local committee at Saratoga, 

 whose President is Dr. R. C. McEwen, and 

 Secretary Prof. H. A. Wilson. 



The Saratoga meeting begins August 27th, 

 and a very large attendance is expected. The 

 Appalachian Club, the Entomological Club, 

 and the Anthropological Association meet at 

 Saratoga at the same date, and their mem- 

 bers will swell the numbers attending the As- 

 sociation. 



We are indebted to W. A. Lee, Esq., of 

 Winfield, Kansas, for a sketch of a spinal ver- 

 tebra and portion of a rib of a mastodon dis- 

 covered in Sumner county by Dr. Cooper. 

 The bones were found about two feet under 

 ground, but apparently the original surface 

 had been about thirty-three feet higher than 

 at the time the discovery was made. The 

 vertebral bone is about ten inches in vertical 

 height and eleven across from process to pro- 

 cess, and not less than three and one-half 

 inches thick. The rib was traced about eight 

 feet, but as this measurement exceeds any- 

 thing of the kind hitherto described, it is 

 probable that the trace represented two ribs 

 lying together. 



