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Mentions Kansas lead, p. 312. Zinc, p. 368. Coal and other minerals, 

 p. 682. 



Mineral Resources for 1883-4, by Albert Williams, Jr. (A H S). 



Mineral Resources for 1885, by David T. Day. (A H). 



Mineral Resources for 1886, by David T. Day. (A H). 



Mineral Resources for 1887, by David T. Day. (A H). 



Mineral Resources for 1888, by David T. Day. (A H S). 



Mineral Resources for 1889, by David T. Day. (A S). 



Mineral Resources for 1890, by David T. Day. (A S). 



Mineral Resources for 1891, by David T. Day. (A H). 



Mineral Resources for 1892, by David T. Day. (A). 



All these have some notice of Kansas minerals and the volume for 1892 

 has Kansas minerals under these heads: Cement, Clay, Coal, Coke, Gyp- 

 sum, Lead, Limestone, Mineral Waters, Salt, Sandstone, and Zinc. 



Coal, by Chas. A. Ashburner. Washington, 1888, is a separate of the 

 Report on Mineral Resources for 1887. 



Gives coal in Kansas, pp. 253-256. 

 Smithsonian Institution reports and papers: 



Proceedings of U. S. National Museum for 1879, Vol. II. (S. M. C. 

 Vol. XIX.) Washington, 1880, p. 292 et seq. (A H S). 



Description of new Cretaceous invertebrate fossils from Kansas and 

 Texas, by C. A. White. Says "Two aviculids were discovered by Prof. B. 

 F. Mudge in strata of the Dakota group. Saline Co., Kansas, and sent by 

 him to the National Museum." Refers to others from the same locality, 

 described in Vol. IX of the U. S. G. Survey of the Territories. One is 

 named Gervillia Mudgeana (p. 290). Says the discoveries of Prof. Mudge 

 have done more than all the others to show the molluscan fauna of the 

 Dakota group. 



An account of the Progress in Geology in the years 1887-88, by W. J. 

 McGee. Washington, 1890. Extract from the Smithsonian Report for 

 1888. (AH). 



Refers to work of Kansas Academy of Science and Washburn Col- 

 lege. 



Preliminary Handbook of the Department of Geology in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, by Geo. P. Merrill, from Report Nat. Mus., 1889. (A H). 



Appendix E states (p. 34) Kansas has 63 specimens of building stones, 

 and (p, 38) 21 specimens of zinc and lead ores, marcasite, rock salt, and 

 pumice dust, in the Museum. 

 Report Smithsonian Institution, 1885-6, Part II. Collection of Building and 

 Ornamental stones in the U. S. National Museum: A Handbook and Cata- 

 logue, by Geo. P. Merrill. 



Describes more fully the stones in the Museum. 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture: 



Artesian Wells of the Great Plains. Report of Commissioners C. A. 



White and Samuel Aughey. Washington, 1882. (A H). 



Gives some cretaceous geology near the Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska 

 line. 



Letter from Secretary of Agriculture (.1. M. Rusk) transmitting a report 

 on location of artesian wells west of the 97th meridian to the eastern foot- 

 hills of the Rocky Mountains. Washington, 1850. Pp. 37-47, Sen. Ex. Doc. 

 No. 222, 1st Sess., 51 Cong. 



Gives tertiary and cretaceous geology of western Kansas in report of 

 R. Hay. 



