TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
Homo sapiens. 
Mastodon americanus. 
Elephas primigenius. 
Elephas imperator (?) ( Cragin). 
Bison americarus. 
Bison antiquus. 
Bison crampianus. 
Bison alleni. 
Alces, species indet. 
Equus major. 
Equus excelsus. 
Equus complicatus (Cragin). 
Equus curvidens ( Cragin). 
Platygonus compressus. 
Camelops Kansanus. 
Auchenia huerfanensis. 
Camelids, species indet. 
Megalonyx leidyi. 
Mylodon (?), species indet. 
Canis lupus. 
Canis, species indet. 
Geomys bursarius. 
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Equus occidentalis. 
Homo Saprens: The contemporaneity of man with the Equus fauna is, I 
think, assured by the discovery of arrow-heads associated with the remains of 
Bison antiquus, in Gove county, by Mr. H. T. Martin. 
MasTopon AMERICANUS: This species is rather rare in Kansas. An excellent 
pair of jaws was discovered some years ago in the alluvium of the Wakarusa val- 
ley, near Lawrence, and I have further knowledge of the same species from Man- 
hattan and Jewell county. Reputed discoveries of this mastodon are not always 
to be trusted, since it is commonly confounded with Hlephas primigenius. 
ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS: This species has been found in nearly all parts of the 
state, but occurs most frequently in the western and southern parts, and yet 
more frequently in the Indian Territory south of Kansas. Three years ago an 
extraordinary deposit was discovered in Lane county, in the valley of the Smoky 
Hill, by Mr. Chas. Sternberg, the veteran collector of Kansas. From a small 
area, not more than two or three rods in diameter, portions of a score or more of 
these animals were obtained, together with others of /quus excelsus and of a 
small dog. Some seventy or more of the teeth are now in the University collec- 
tion. The deposit was in a basin in a small ravine that had been hollowed out 
of the Niobrara chalk, and considerably below the Loup Fork beds, which here 
yielded teeth of Protohippus placidus. In the vicinity, and from a higher 
horizon, were obtained teeth of Protohippus lenticularis, a typical Goodnight 
beds species. There can be no question of the local character of the Elephas de- 
posit. Everything indicates that the spot was the site of some old spring to 
which the different animals had come and died. 
A large series of Hlephas primigenius bones were obtained from the reddish 
alluvium of Clark county. 
BISON AMERICANUS: Teeth agreeing quite with this species were obtained some 
years ago from 8 or 10 feet below the surface in the alluvium of the Wakarusa 
valley. There is also a jaw of this species in the collection from the southern 
part of the state bearing this label: ‘Found on strip pit (coal),on S. L. Cherry’s 
place, in blue-muck clay and on top of the coal, six or seven feet from the sur- 
face.’’ A while ago, Professor Hay sent to me for examination a part of a skele- 
ton from the western part of the state, partly fossilized, and which Hay thought 
to have been contemporary with extinct species. 
Bison antTiQuus: The only known occurrence of this species is in Gove county, 
in the valley of the Smoky Hill, where Mr. H. T. Martin obtained for our mu- 
seum a complete skeleton, which will be mounted. The material in which the 
skeleton was found was quite like that of the Elephas and Platygonus deposits 
not far distant. As already stated, with these specimens was found an arrow-head, 
well fashioned, but small. 
