KANSAS SCIENTIFIC SURVEY. 642 
the Agricultural College was a monument worthy of any geologist. All his papers 
read before the Academy were based upon original observation and research and 
were real and substantial contributions to science. Prof. Snow is many-sided, 
and has contributed to our scientific knowledge in several departments. His. 
contributions to botany are valuable; he has given usa nearly complete catalogue 
of the birds of Kansas; he has made large determinations among the insects; he 
has determined the species of fish in the Kansas river at Lawrence, and has kept 
a meteorological journal covering many years, which is recognized and referred to 
by meteorologists everywhere. Prof. Popenoe has been a valuable co-laborer in 
entomology and his labors are full of promise. The Government has placed a 
full set of self-registering meteorological instruments under the charge of Prof. 
Lovewell, of Topeka, who is now keeping a valuable weather journal. 
Prof. O. St. John has, during his leisure time, extending over two years, 
completed a stratigraphical survey of the geological formations from the mouth 
of the Kansas river to Manhattan. This work has been accomplished with all 
the accuracy and perfection characteristic of the United States survey, of which 
Prof. St. John has been the paleontologist. Prof. St. John was with Prof. 
Agassiz in his expedition to South America, and has had a wide and varied 
experience in scientific pursuits. Kansas would be fortunate indeed to secure 
his services as Director of the proposed scientific survey. Prof. Bardwell did 
something in the way of triangulation, and by his death science lost a most valua- 
ble worker. Prof. Kedzie before his death, and Prof. Patrick have both done 
something in the way of determination of soils and minerals. There have been 
other laborers in various departments, valuable auxiliaries in the prosecution of 
the work, whose services have been cheerfully rendered without reward. Aside 
from the two preliminary surveys, all of this work has been accomplished for 
Kansas without asking a dollar from the State, except in the bare publication of 
the results. If there ever was a society that has been abundant in labors, extend- 
ing over more than a decade of years, whose services have been rendered ‘‘with- 
out money and without price,” it is the Kansas Academy of Science. In view 
of all those disinterested services in the cause of science, an appeal from the 
Academy for the State to gather up these results, and carry forward the survey, 
will surely not be unheeded. 
There are cogent reasons why Kansas should resume the State Scientific 
Survey at the present session of the Legislature. Shouldthe survey be put off two. 
years, until the next biennial session of the Legislature, it would seem almost 
like a calamity. Nothing would more powerfully attract immigration than to 
ascertain and make known the vast natural resources of the State. A thorough 
scientific survey appeals to and attracts the more intelligent classes so desirable 
in any State. Kansas has been a leader in many things, and she cannot afford to 
lose her prestige. In our civil war the fires of liberty burned the brightest on 
Kansas soil. She hasadouble land grant for educational purposes, and the 
school fund, when all the lands are sold, will probably aggregate ten millions of 
