EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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for them a clear and attractive history and explanation of what it really is — the 

 Queen of the Sciences. In these points he has succeeded admirably, and the 

 essay will be read with interest by all who undertake it unappalled by the title. 



The Cotton Worm. By Chas. V. Riley, M.A., Ph.D. Washington, D. C, 



Government Printing Office, 1879. 



In this, as in almost everything he touches, Prof. Riley has given us an ex- 

 haustive account of the whole subject, including a summary of the natural history 

 of the pest, an account of its enemies, and the best means of controlling it, with 

 numerous illustrations in each of these branches of the subject. It would seem to 

 be of immense advantage to the planters of the cotton States. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Proceedings of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Science, October 1, 1878, 

 to July 1, 1879. — No. 5 of the Publications of the Cincinnati Observatory, being 

 a record of micrometrical measurements of ,1,054 double stars, observed from 

 July 1, 1878, to September 1, 1879, under the superintendence of Ormond Stone, 

 A.M., Director. — Report on Magnetic Observations in Missouri during the Sum- 

 mer of 1879, by Francis E. Nipher, Professor of Physics in Washington Univer- 

 sity, St. Louis, Missouri. — Catalogue of Marietta College, Ohio, 1879-80. — Cata- 

 logue of Washington University, St. Louis, 1879-80. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The regular meeting of the Kansas City 

 Academy of Science for February, was post- 

 poned on account of the lecture of Rev. S. B. 

 Bell, on the same evening, he being a promi- 

 nent member of the Academy, and many of 

 the members desirous of hearing him. 



The lecture of Prof. F. E. Nipher, of Wash- 

 ington University, in the extra course of the 

 Academy of Science, was delivered on the 

 17th of February. A full house was present 

 and the lecture was received with every evi- 

 dence of appreciative approbation. It will be 

 published in full in the next issue of the Re- 

 view. 



On March 26th, Professor R. A. Proctor 



will deliver a lecture under the auspices of 

 the Academy of Science, at the Opera House. 

 Subject : " The Birth and Death of Worlds," 

 one of the most brilliant and interesting of 

 his series. The largest audiences ever con- 

 gregated in New York, Boston and other large 

 cities of this country, have listened to this 

 lecture and gazed upon the splendid sciopti- 

 con illustrations with enthusiasm and profit. 

 The people of Kansas City are to be congrat- 

 ulated upon having this opportunity offered 

 them, as Prof. Proctor goes from here to the 

 Pacific Coast. 



Dr. John Rae writes as follows, from Lon- 

 don, England: "I have read with interest 

 and pleasure the paper, « Peculiarities of 



