652 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



TERTIARY IN HARPER COUNTY, KANSAS. 



F. W. CRAGIN. 



Editor Review : — If you have space for it yet in this issue of the Review^ 

 I show like to record the fact that the tertiary in Kansas south of the Arkansas 

 River can at last be definitely asserted to occur as far east as Harper County. 

 A fossil presented to me from that county by Mr. C. D. Moore, and which was 

 found at a depth of fifteen or twenty feet in digging a well, proves to be the large 

 metatarsal of a Tertiary (probably Pliocene) horse. The fossil has been submit- 

 ted to Prof. Cope, of Philadelphia, who states that it belongs to a type of horse 

 different from any hitherto known, in having the lateral metatarsals (splints) more 

 closely approximated than usual and extremely unusual. 



I now refer to the Tertiary, also the conglomerate bed resting upon the 

 Dakota sandstone near the east line of Barbour County. It is from this con- 

 glomerate and its former continuation eastward that the streams in that vicinity 

 derive their beautiful array of colored quartz pebbles, and which, owing to its 

 position — lower, as regards actual elevation, than are certain Dakota and all the 

 Niobrara formations in Barbour and Comanche Counties — I formerly referred to 

 the Cretaceous. 



The pebble and gravel beds (largely white quartz) of Kingman County and 

 southern Reno, are doubtless to be referred to the Tertiary also. 



These developments indicate not only the absence of the Benton and Nio- 

 brara in Harper County, but also that the Tertiary is, in Harper County, brought 

 down to within an unusually short distance of the Permian, following and imme- 

 diately overlying the Dakota nearly to its eastern limit. 



ASTRONOMY. 



SUN AND PLANETS FOR MARCH, 1885. 



W. DAWSON, SPICELAND, IND. 



The Sun moves eastward about two hours, or 30°, every month. On March 

 ist its R. A. will be 22h. 51m.; declination 7° 19' S. And on the 19th it com- 

 pletes the whole round of 24h., or 360**; passing the Vernal Equinox about 7:00 

 P. M--, Kansas City time, that day. It also crosses the Ecliptic to the north,, 

 and by noon, March 31st, has a northern declination of 4° 25', and R. A. oh. 

 41m. March is often called a Spring month but, astronomically, Spring season. 



