48 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



It would appear that the development within the State either of the Sub-Car- 

 boniferous or of the Tertiary deposits was unknown. In the short notice given to 

 the Cretaceous deposits, which had received very little examination, there is a fore- 

 shadowing of what was eventually discovered many years after, that the Kansas 

 Cretaceous system yields true chalk. 



In 1865 the Legislature passed another act, which did not limit the time for which 

 the State Geologist should be appointed to one year. It was further an improve- 

 ment on the former act, in that it authorized an expenditure of $7,500 for the year. 

 Prof. Swallow became State Geologist. Prof. Mudge was not connected with the 

 Survey; the other members were as before. The report published by John Speer at 

 Lawrence in 1866 is an unbound volume of 192 pages. Drs. Logan and Sinks each 

 have reports in it on their several departments, the former discussing the facts of 

 the climate as related to health and various forms of disease, and the latter showing 

 the rainfall and other elements of meteorology as they could at that time be recog- 

 nized. As the Legislature had prescribed work to be done in each county, this vol- 

 ume has a special report on the geology of Miami county, which gives a section of 

 the formations found therein and investigates questions of petroleum and iron ore 

 as well as coal. Major Hawn contributes to the report notices of eight counties. 

 These are not nearly so full as that of Miami county, which appears to have been 

 pretty thoroughly examined as a typical region of the coal-measure epoch. The 

 counties of which the briefer reports are made are, Brown, Doniphan, Chase, Lyon, 

 Linn, Butler, Osage, and Morris. The Bluff (Loess) is recognized as occurring in the 

 counties of this list which are furthest west, Lyon, Chase, and Morris. It is spoken 

 of also as occurring at the northwest corner of the State, in the Republican valley. The 

 rocks of these three counties are described also as permian, and also the strata of 

 Butler county with a slight exception. 



The main body of the report of Professor Swallow treats of the formations of 

 Kansas in the following order: 



System I. Quateenaky. a. Alluvium, b. Bottom prairie, c. Bluff, d. Drift. 



System II. Tertiary. In western Kansas, but not yet examined. 



System III. Cretaceous. In central Kansas, only partially examined. Brown, 

 ferruginous, yellow and buff sandstone. Generally classed as Cretaceous, "but saw 

 no proof of age." 



System IV. Triassio. Gives these localities: Republican, Smoky Hill and Cot- 

 tonwood rivers; Gypsum, Turkey and Fancy creeks. Distinguishes ten series of 

 strata ( Nos. 2 to 11 ), and gives a thickness of 338 feet. 



System V. Permian. Nos. 12 to 30. Thickness 141 ft. 1 in. Lower Permian, 

 Nos. 31 to 84. Thickness 563 feet. 



System VI. Carboniferous, a. Coal measures, 1,647 feet thick, b. Lower coal 

 measures, 353 feet. c. Lower Carboniferous, 120 feet. 



The "coal measures" (a) are divided into the following groups or "series," viz.: 

 Upper coal measures, Chocolate Limestone series, Stanton Limestone, Cave Rock, 

 Spring Rock, Well Rock, Marais des Cygnes coal. Pawnee limestone. Fort Scott coal, 

 and Fort Scott marble series. 



This report is the last that was issued by State authority. It refers to drawings 

 of sections and lists of fossils that were never published. No further appropriations 

 have been made for this work by the Legislature. We have given some of the de- 

 tails of the work, to indicate what progress had been made, and as a basis of com- 

 parison to show succeeding advancement. It were bootless to discuss the reasons 

 for the discontinuance of the survey, as the appropriations were stopped before the 

 report was distributed. When it was issued the work of Professor Swallow was 



