KANSAS CITY FOSSILS. 113 
was about seven or eight inches in diameter ; another ten or twelve inches long, 
and four broad. Both gave evidence of considerable use, as the cutting edges 
were finely polished. We have no doubt that if the proper search and investiga- 
tions were made, a large and more valuable collection of relics could be obtained 
in this region that would be of great interest to the archaeologist, and do much 
toward filling the blank as to the history of the former inhabitants of this country. 
— Cor. Globe- Democrat. 
KANSAS CITY FOSSILS. 
The Upper Coal Measures of Kansas City and vicinity have proved a rich 
field for the collector of its characteristic fossils. For variety, size and general 
perfection, these fossils will compare with those of any other locality in the same 
formation. Many of them are evidently new and have never been described. 
This is especially the case in regard to the Cephalapoda (Nautili, Goniatites, 
Orthocerates) of which there are a great variety, some of new and rare forms. 
Some of the collectors of this city have exerted themselves to make good local 
collections, and there is nowhere a wealth of material waiting to be worked up 
■by some good palaeontologist. As we have not got the books of reference and 
specimens for comparison, to make a study of these fossils ourselves, we are anx- 
ious to place our treasures at the disposal of some one who has the ability, time 
and facilities to make a complete monograph of them, believing that it will not 
only be of value to us but to the interest of science in general. The writer has 
in preparation a list of the fossils of this locality, so far as we have been able to 
identify them with our limited sources of reference and comparison, to be pub- 
lished in some future number of the Review. It will necessarily be incomplete 
and somewhat imperfect, but we hope it will lead to a more complete and perfect 
list, and also show the abundance and variety of our material. 
Mr. A. C. Austin, of this city, has just acquired a very fine fossil from the 
coal mines at Williamsburgh, Franklin County, Kansas. It is a lower jaw, twelve 
or thirteen inches in length, embedded in the upper surface of a block of coal, 
the teeth in place and well preserved. From the structure of the teeth it evi- 
dently belongs to a class of large Batrachians found in the coal measures of Ohio 
and other States, some specimens of which are figured and described in Vol. II 
Geological Survey of Ohio, 1875, but rarely found v/est of the Mississippi. The 
owner would like very much to have it identified and named, and would be 
pleased to have any one familiar with this class of fossils call and examine it at 
his residence, southeast corner 8th and Oak Sts., Kansas City, Mo. 
W. H. R. L. 
