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them prove that the place of death was but a short distance from that of burial. 

 The bones were scattered through sand on a bed of calcareous sandstone. Rhi- 

 noceros bones were the most abundant; Cope calls them Aphelops. They were 

 without horns, and had large sharp canines in the lower jaw, and also in the 

 premaxilla. These were oblong in shape and ground against the lower ones, keep- 

 ing them always sharp. 



In some cases the premaxilla was several inches longer than the nasals, and 

 had doubtless a flexible trunk. They had three toes on each foot, and were 

 about the size of existing species. These beasts lived alone in herds, no other 

 animal, no matter how fierce, would care to attack or associate with them, for in 

 addition to their sharp tusks, their skin was thick and folded. The bones were 

 indiscriminately mixed. It was not uncommon to find camel vertebrae between 

 the branches of the lower jaws. We found several skulls with lower jaws attached 

 and one perfect front foot. All the others were scattered, except the Tibia and 

 Fibula that were anchylosed together. 



A large mastodon lived at this time with inferior tusks. In 1881 I discov- 

 ered a perfect lower jaw, that measured five and a half feet from the point of the 

 tusk to the angle of the jaw; the jaw was four feet long. This season I procured 

 four upper teeth together in fragments of the maxilla. The largest was seven 

 and a half inches long and three inches wide. Turdes were also common; in 1881 

 I procured twenty specimens from a narrow gulch. Some of the shells were 

 beautifully sculptured. They were all land and fresh water turtles. But time 

 will not allow me to go more into details. If I have been ao fortunate as to inter- 

 est some of you enough to go more deeply into the subject than I have to-day, I 

 shall be most happy. 



THE NEW ARTESIAN WELL AT FT. SCOTT, KANSAS.! 



E. H. S. BAILEY AND E. W. WALTER. 



Some months since a company was formed at Ft. Scott to sink a well for the 

 purpose of obtaining gas. The well was bored to a depth of 621 feet, and 

 although gas was not found, an abundant supply of water was struck. 



The well was bored on the first bench on the south side of the Marmaton 

 River, at the foot of the bluff and 550 feet from the channel. Above the mouth 

 of the well is a bluff consisting of limestone, hydraulic cement rock, coal, fire- 

 clay, and bituminous shale. The diameter of the well is eight inches down to 

 335 feet, to which point the well was tubed with iron pipe. Below that point 

 the well was bored dry forty-five feet, at which point a fourteen inch crevice was 

 struck and salt-water rose to within ten feet of the surface. The boring was 

 continued till a depth of 621 feet was reached, and on removing the drill a clear 

 steady flow of over 10,000 gallons of water per day was obtained. There seems 



1 Abstract of a paper read at the Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, 1>.84. 



