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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Missouri Ornithology,' in the January 

 number of the Kansas City Review, in which 

 I notice one little mistake. The ' Brant ' is 

 not the 'laughing goose,' but a different bird 

 altogether; the former being much smaller 

 than the latter. The peculiarity of the lead- 

 ing-goose or gander making a precipitate 

 tumbling-down movement on deciding to 

 alight, when flying at a great height, is not 

 peculiar to the 'Brant.' I have seen the 

 snow-geese, on their arrival from the North, 

 or the shores of Hudson's Bay, do the same 

 thing scores of times." 



The committee on the proposed monument 

 to the memory of the late Prof. B. F. Mudge, 

 have issued a circular in which they say : 



" It is proposed to raise one thousand dol- 

 lars for the erection of this monument, and 

 the many friends of our beloved leader and 

 associate are cordially invited to render all 

 possible assistance. Local committees will be 

 authorized to receive subscriptions in the chief 

 towns of the State. Individuals not thus so- 

 licited are hereby invited to send their con- 

 tributions to the Treasurer, Dr. R. J. Brown, 

 Leavenworth, Kansas." 



The people of Kansas City should subscribe 

 at least one hundred dollars toward this fund. 

 Photographs of Prof. Mudge been placed in 

 the hands of Mr. T. S. Case, of this city, who 

 will piesent one to each subscriber of one 

 dollar towards this object. 



The Daily Netv York Graphic, in addition 

 to the many features that have rendered it so 

 popular among the best classes throughout 

 the country, furnishes full financial and min- 

 ing reports from all sections of the country. 



Prof. Maskelyne has decided that the 

 diamonds, supposed to have been manufact- 

 ured by Mr. McTear, are in reality only 

 silicates. At the same time he publishes his 

 belief that those manufactured by Mr. Han- 

 nay are genuine, and the only instances of 

 artificially crystallized carbon ever brought to 

 his notice. Prof. Roscoe, of Owens College, 

 Manchester, says he regards the evidence thus 

 far submitted by J. Ballantyne Hannay as in- 



sufficient to establish the conclusion. Dr. R. 

 S. Marsden, of Sheffield, England, by a differ- 

 ent process from any thing known heretofore, 

 has also obtained a crystalline body, believed 

 to be crystallized carbon, or diamond. 



According to a Boston Journal of Commerce 

 correspondent, the Lowe water-gas is a per- 

 fect success, and can be furnished ready for 

 use, including fixtures for lighting, heating, 

 and cooking, at an expense to the consumer, 

 of not over fifteen cents per thousand feet and 

 at the same time give the manufacturers a 

 profit of three hundred per cent. 



A friend sends the following extract from 

 a recent letter from Capt. Kennedy, of St. 

 Andrews, Manitoba : "I have again very cor- 

 dially to thank you for now a third number 

 of that exceedingly well gotten up, and very 

 interesting publication, The Kansas City 

 Review. When I met my old friend, J. N. 

 McTavish, of the Hudson's Bay Company, the 

 other day, his first remark was, ' Have you 

 seen the Kansas City Review? I never 

 thought they could have gotten up so able a 

 paper way down in Missouri ! ' " 



The Atlantic Monthly has always numbered 

 the ablest and best American writers among 

 its contributors. The April number will give 

 the first chapters of Mr. Aldrich's new story. 

 It will also contain short stories by Mrs. Rose 

 Terry Cooke and Mr. W. H. Bishop; and the 

 fourth installment of Mr. Howell's serial. 

 Among its literary attractions will be a paper 

 on "A Woman of Genius," by Miss H. W. 

 Preston ; and a study of Coleridge, by Mr. G. 

 P. Lathrop ; there will be a very valuable and 

 interesting article giving reminiscenses and 

 and couversations of the late Wm. M. Hunt ; 

 and the third number of Reminiscences of 

 Washington. It is hoped that a paper by the 

 author of " Certain Dangerous Tendencies in 

 Ame ican Life," equal to that remarkable ar- 

 ticle in value and interest, will appear in the 

 same issue. 



The Topeka Scientific and Literary Club 

 was organized about one year ago, by a num- 



