278 KANSAS AQADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Gives geology of the western plains, particularly northwestern Kansas, 

 by S. F. Emmons, Robert Hay, and R. T. Hill, pp. 443-448. 

 Geologie. Asie et Amerique, par Emm. de Margerie. Extrait de 1' Annuaire 

 Geologique Universel. Tome VI, p. 575. ' Le Mans (France), 1890. 



Gives Trinity beds in southern Kansas, and ascribes their discovery 

 to "M. Cragin," pp. 32, 33. 



REPORT OF THE EOARD OF CURATORS. 



Your board of curators have the honor to report: That the office room 

 of the Academy of Science at the state house has finally been cleared of the 

 Labor Bureau, the State Historical Society, and all their paraphernalia, leav- 

 ing the Academy in full possession of the rooms. 



During January and February, 1894, Prof. Robert Hay was employed sev- 

 dtal days in overhauling, cleaning, and relabeling the specimens. The pale- 

 ontological cases were moved from the vestibule into the west room and the 

 specimens rearranged in them. 



There have been added to the museum during the past year 28 specimens 

 of reptiles and fishes of the state, from various counties (all are labeled); 500 

 specimens of coleoptera from Reno county, labeled; a number of specimens 

 of rocks and geodes from Barber, Butler, Cherokee, JackSon, Norton, Shawnee 

 and Sumner counties; rock salt from Rice county; silica from McPherson, 

 Ellsworth, Lincoln and Jewell counties; two large specimens of petrified 

 wood from the Dakota sandstone in northwest Kansas; and a large fossil, 35 

 feet in length, from the Niobrara, in Mitchell county. This last, which was 

 supposed to be a petrified reptile, proves to be vegetable. 



A. H. THOMPSON, 



B. B. SMYTH, 

 ROBERT HAY, 



. Curators. 



