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up the hill injurious, and two complained, not about the hill, but the stairs at the 

 University. Only three or four take systematic exercise. Thirteen assist in making 

 their own wardrobe, and 30 take care of their own rooms. 



The same list of questions was sent to the graduates. The State University of 

 Kansas has graduated 101 women in all from the regular collegiate courses. Three 

 of the graduates have died, while the addresses of three others could not be obtained; 

 therefore, 95 communications were sent; 55 replies have been received; 32 of the 55 

 report health in college the same as before entering; 8 report health worse while in 

 the University — 2 of the 8, however, for a portion of one year only; 11 report health 

 while at the University much better than before entrance. All those who reported 

 (and many did so report) "If there was any change, it was for the better," were in- 

 cluded in the list "health the same." Forty-one report health since leaving school 

 "good," or "the same;" 6 report health "better since graduation," and 6 "health 

 not so good;" 35 consider that University life has no effect upon health at all; 4 be- 

 lieve that health is injured by University work, and 9 state that their health was 

 much improved by their college experience; 3 report "climbing the hill" injurious, 

 and 44 not injurious; on the other hand, many consider the hill "a blessing." The 

 alumnae spent, on an average, 9i hours per day in study and recitation. Twenty- 

 one of these 51 who have reported are married. 



I wish I could tell you all the valuable suggestions sent to me in reply to the 

 question, "What suggestions would you make in regard to improving the physical 

 health of Kansas State University women?" Space, however, will forbid the inclu- 

 sion of but one or two of these replies. Many of the graduates suggest that the girls 

 should avoid too much social recreation of one character — dancing; but urge that 

 more frequent formal receptions and social gatherings, at which the girls could meet 

 and talk with cultured people, would be a lasting pleasure and benefit to them. All 

 are unanimous in the wish for a gymnasium, in which the girls could receive sys- 

 tematic physical training. 



NOTES ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF FOSSIL CEPHALOPODS. 



BY EOBEET HAY, F. G. S. A. 



Five years ago the writer obtained, from strata that he has been calling permo- 

 carboniferous, near Junction City, a fragment of a large nautiloid cephalopod. 

 Having the impression that the fossils of the region had been exhaustively exam- 

 ined, he kept it without special note, not seeking then to have its species identified. 

 Three years ago a fine cephalopod of a distinct type was given to me by Capt. Geo. 

 E. Pond, quartermaster of Fort Riley, who had obtained it from the quarries worked 

 on the military reservation. I obtained others about the same time from nearly the 

 same horizon, further to the southwest. Captain Pond was also making a collection 

 to go to the museum at West Point, and I undertook to have them named for him. 

 The result was, I sent his collection and my own to Prof. Alphseus Hyatt, of Boston, 

 our best authority on cephalopods. This was early in 1890. About the same time 

 Professor Hyatt received a collection from the geological survey of Texas, from 

 about the same horizon, and he also examined a number of specimens in the Na- 

 tional Museum, at Washington, that had been sent from Kansas by Doctor Newlon, 

 of Oswego. 



Among the Texas specimens were some of the same species as those from Geary 



