74 Kansas Academy of science. 



by intelligence and spirituality: we enjoy the contemplation of it for what it repre- 

 sents, and it lifts us above our sordid selves. The ethical effect of this spiritualized 

 beauty in man or woman has a powerful influence for good, and it is felt by all men 

 more or less consciously. A good face does good by its mere presence among men, 

 and the influence of such a person cannot be estimated. But facial beauty is so 

 varied, and standards vary so much, that, taking all classes and tastes, perhaps 

 there may, after all, be very few healthy faces that are not attractive and more or 

 less beautiful in some eyes — dull and commonplace as the majority of them 

 appear. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF MAMMOTH REMAINS IN FRANKLIN 

 COUNTY, KANSAS. 



BY O. C. OHAELTON, OTTAWA. 



Through Franklin county from west to east runs the Marais des Cygnes river, 

 which is the upper course of the Osage river. The mammoth remains which I first 

 mention were obtained from the N.E.] of the N.E.i of sec. 17, town 17 S., range 



21 E. 



Nineteen years ago De Witt C. Estes, who then owned the land, found at the base 

 of the low bluff skirting the river on the north, a. part of a tusk and a large bone. 

 The piece of tusk was 18 inches long; and apparently composed of ivory, which was 

 easily separated into thin, concentric scales. In 1880 W. P. Estes found, washed out 

 in the river-bed at the same place, a vertebra having a spinous process nearly 18 

 inches long. Other loose parts of large bones have been found in the river-bed 

 below this point, near Rantoul. 



In May, 1889, a part of a j?«w and one tooth were found. The tooth weighs 9 

 pounds. Last November W. P. Estes found, in same bluff, a shoulder-blade over 3 

 feet long, which was broken in removing it, and soon thereafter mostly crumbled to 

 fragments. The firmer articulating end, now in the museum of Ottawa University, 

 has a maximum diameter of 11 inches. 



At this bluff the river runs in a curve convex to the northeast. The bluff is com- 

 posed of 12 feet of soil and brittle clay, under wliich is 9 feet of whitish friable clay, 

 underlaid by one foot of gravel resting on shale, which latter forms the river-bed. 

 Just over the gravel the bones were found. Since 1860 the river has washed away 

 perhaps 35 feet of this bank. Within fifteen years it has here transferred its chan- 

 nel from the west to the east side of a small island. Besides, the overlying clay is 

 quite irregularly stratified, just where the bones were removed. Hence my conclu- 

 sion that the bones of the skeleton were widely scattered. 



Other mammoth remains have been found, in the city of Ottawa. About twelve 

 years ago, when digging a well at No. 418 Main street, the workman, at a depth of 



22 feet, came upon a mammoth skeleton, about 300 lbs. of which were removed. 

 It was embedded in mixed clay and gravel. A part of one tooth, recently presented 

 to our museum by Dr. H. B. Paramore, weighs 22 lbs. Part of another weighs 

 17 lbs. 



It may be well to add that wood, not badly decayed, has been obtained at a 

 depth of 22 feet, in Forest Park, and fragments of bones have been taken out of 

 the river bank above Ottawa, 18 feet below the surface. 



