THE 



WESTERN REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



• Science, Mechanic Arts and Agriculture. 

 VOL. 1. JUNE, 1877. NO. 4. 



ARCHy^OLOGY. 



Age of '^Prehistoric" Remains Found at Kansas City, and of the 

 Races of Men Associated AArith Them. 



BY JUDGE E. P, WEST. 

 [Read before the Kansas City Academy of Science, September, 1876.*] 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I have the pleasure of pre- 

 senting before you this evening several fragments of the handiwork of 

 our "old settlers," which will possess great interest, no doubt, to those who 

 are fond of contemplating relics of the past. Unlike the annual reunions of 

 our modern " old settlers," the reunions of the " prehistoric old settlers," of 

 whom I have the pleasure to speak this evening, long since have been buried 

 in the mysterious vistas of the past, or have been transferred from scenes 

 of earth to those of their happy hunting grounds in the poetic realms of the 

 Grreat Spirit. 



I invite your attention first to a fragment of chert, which I had the 

 good fortune to find the latter part of the past spring, imbedded in the Loess 

 or Eluff formation. It was found at a depth of about three feet beneath 



*Tliis paper should have preceded the one read by Judge West before the Academy of Science, which 

 was published in the first number of this Magazine. 



