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scription of the plan of the monument, its form, its various kinds of stone, and 

 their colors and combinations. 



It is composed of seven pieces. The lowest base is Dunlap, Morris county, 

 light-colored limestone, representing his adopted State — the home of his riper 

 years The next base is red beach granite, from Maine — the State of his birth. 

 The third base is gray granite from Barre, in the Green Mountain State. The 

 fourth base is a beautiful dark Quincy granite, from Massachusetts — the State 

 where he was educated and grew up to manhood, his parents moving there in his 

 infancy. The fifth stone, the die, is a beautiful variegated, light-colored marble, 

 with pinkish tinge, and narrow, dark zigzag lines running through it. The sixth 

 stone is a dark-colored La Panto marble with dark red spots, a rare stone from 

 Rutland, Vermont. The seventh stone or shaft is marble from Knoxville, Ten- 

 nessee — the same as the die — in all making the whole monument fifteen feet eight 

 inches in height. The monument in form and color has elicited almost universal 

 approval, with little if any adverse criticism. 



Mr. Goodnow was followed by Rev. R. D. Parker, of Manhattan, who said 

 that it was within the circle of these hills, that the deceased in company with his 

 brother, J. D. Parker, now at Kansas City, Mo., first conceived the idea of 

 forming the Kansas Academy of Science, which, for the last fourteen years, has 

 been an accomplished fact. 



Rev. E. Gale, of Manhattan, followed in some interesting remarks, contrast- 

 ing the scenes which must have occurred in the "long ago," around a burial 

 mound upon yonder hill-top, (Bluemont, probable burial place of mound-builders, 

 and scene of Prof. Mudge's last geological labors,) with the exercises of the pres- 

 ent time. Prof. Gale was for many years an associate teacher with Prof. Mudge 

 in the Agricultural College. 



Prof. Robt. Hay, of Junction City, claimed the right of being a lover of 

 geological science, and as a co-worker in this great field of discovery and explor- 

 ation, he would offer his tribute of love and praise to the memory of our departed 

 friend. He also offered a resolution of thanks to Mr. W. S. Reed, of Lawrence, 

 Kas., the builder of the monument, for his fidelity and faithfulness in performing 

 his part of the contract so well. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. 

 Reed is rapidly rising in his vocation, and the monument demonstrates his skill. 



Mr. Savage, upon request, gave a short explanation of the quotation put 

 upon the monument, viz: "'There is a Land that is Fairer Than Day." He 

 spoke of the intense pleasure scientists all feel in finding something new in nature 

 — a pleasure almost akin to a new creation. His own heart had throbbed in 

 unison with Prof. Mudge's on many occasions of this kind, and he readily re- 

 called to mind the unvarying habit of Prof. Mudge, upon finding anything new 

 or old, of breaking forth into this song while unearthing his new found treasure. 

 Therefore, the committee had thought it fitting to inscribe this couplet upon his 

 tombstone: "There is a Land that is Fairer Than Day." Prof. Piatt then sug- 

 gested the singing of this hymn by the audience, which was done with evident 

 feeling by all present. 



