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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



A recent visit to the Kansas University 

 gave us additional reason to believe that it is 

 one of the best managed, and most completely 

 equipped institutions in the country and that 

 its professors are able, zealous and competent 

 gentlemen, while its students are unusually 

 enthusiastic and ardent in their devotion to 

 the branches of education in which they are 

 respectively engaged. 



The proposition of Mr. Eads, to construct 

 a ship railway across the American Isthmus, 

 is now before Congress in the form of a bill 

 authorizing him and his associates to organ- 

 ize a company for the purpose of securing the 

 necessary concession from one of the Central 

 American States, and to locate and construct 

 the necessary works. 



We hope that Mr. Eads will obtain the 

 careful and liberal consideration of Congress. 

 He has given such evidence of ability, cour- 

 age and indomitable energy in great engineer- 

 ing works during the last twenty years, in 

 the construction of the gun-boats, the St. 

 Louis bridge, and the jetties at the mouth of 

 the Mississippi River, that the country will 

 feel assured that the solution of this difficult 

 and deeply interesting question is near at 

 hand if it be intrusted to him. 



By a decree of December 14, 1874, His 

 Majesty the King of the Belgians offered an 

 annual prize of twenty-five thousand francs 

 for the encouragement of intellectual effort. 

 The prize fot- the year i88i,for which authors 

 of all nations may compete, will be awarded 

 to "The best work on the means of improving 

 ports established on low and sandy coasts like 

 those of Belgium." Foreigners desiring to 

 compete for this prize will be required to send 

 their works, either printed or in manuscript, 

 to the Minister of the Interior, at Brussels, 

 before the 1st day of January, 1881. 



We notice that, at the State Convention 

 soon to be held in the interest of Immigra- 

 tion, among other distinguished writers and 

 essayists, "Geo. M. Shelley, mayor of Kan- 

 sas City, is to furnish an article upon Kansas 



City, its Wealth and Industries : its Progress 

 and Prospects." 



The Engineering and Mining Journal, with 

 which have been incorporated the Coal and 

 Iron Record, the Mining Review, and the 

 Polytechnic Review, continues to be, as we 

 have heretofore stated, a most reliable record 

 of progress in metallurgy, engineering, min- 

 ing and general science. Its editors are 

 practical experts in their respective depart- 

 ments, and endeavor to give strictly accurate 

 and just accounts of what is going on in the 

 country. We are led to make these comments 

 just at this time because our friend Professor 

 C. E. Robins, late of Summit, Colorado, an 

 experienced mining engineer, has recently 

 been added to its staff, which must necessarily 

 increase its popularity wherever he is known. 



The Popular Science Monthly for March is- 

 rich in the variety of its contributions, but is 

 especially strong in the direction of education. 

 In this field it is doing a most important pub- 

 lic work, its educational papers being abler 

 and more advanced in their treatment of 

 principles than those contained in journals 

 professedly devoted to the subject. The con- 

 tents for March are : The Association of 

 Ideas (illustrated), by William James, M.D. ; 

 Dolmens in Japan (illustrated), by Professor 

 Edward S. Morse ; The Study of Political 

 Economy, by Henry George ; Ward's Natural 

 Science Establishment, by Professor Joseph 

 Leidy ; The Force Behind Nature, by Will- 

 iam B. Carpenter, F.R.S.; New Viewsof An- 

 imal Transformations (illustrated), by Ed- 

 mond Perrier; The Duty of Enjoyment; In- 

 temperance in Study, by D. Hack Tuke, 

 F.R.C.P.; Water as Fuel, by William C. 

 Conant ; The Early Free Schools of Amer- 

 ica, by Alice H. Rhine; Prehistoric Rums in 

 Southern Colorado, by Henry Gannett ; The 

 Convent of the Capuchins, by Arthur Searle ; 

 Athletics in Schools ; The Matamata (illus- 

 trated), by E. Sauvage; Frost Phenomena in 

 Southern Russia; Sketch of CarlRitter (with 

 portrait) ; Correspondence, Editor's Table, 

 Literary Notices, Popular Miscellany, and 

 Notes. 



