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and is replete with information, all interesting and much of which has never 
been put on record before. It will be published in the official report for 1883, 
and will form a valuable portion of that volume. 
Second Day. — On the morning of the 21st the Academy again met in the 
Senate Chamber and was called to order by the president. 
Before the programme was taken up, the following new names for membership 
were proposed, and accepted by the society : Dr. Alice K. Brown, Jerry Fields 
and W. E. Sterne, Topeka; Judge Jas. Humphrey, Junction City; and W. S. 
White, Wichita. The regular programme was then taken up, the first depart- 
ment being that of Geology. 
The first paper announced was "The Southwestern Extension of the Keokuk 
Formation, with Notices of its Fish Remains," by Prof. O. H. St. John, of To- 
peka. Owing to the absence of Prof. St. John on account of ill health, his paper 
was read only by subject, and the next paper, " Bibliography of Kansas Geology," 
by Mr. F. G. Adams, Secretary of ttie State Historical Society, was read. Mr. 
Adams' paper was a sketch of the various books touching upon the geology of 
Kansas, the story being briefly told in each case. The first book to which he 
referred was a History of Louisiana, published about the year 1809 by E. H. 
DuPratz. It contains an account of a visit to Kansas in that early day, and is 
full of valuable information. A number oi other valuable works referring to^the 
geology of Kansas were mentioned, and brief selections from some of them were 
read, as well as extracts from several scientific reports bearing upon the same 
subject. 
At the close of the paper Prof. Savage gave some very interesting reminis- 
cences of Hayden, the naturalist who was mentioned by Prof. Adams as amcKig 
the prominent authorities on Kansas geology. 
Prof. Savage was with Hayden in 1872, during an expedition to the Yellow- 
stone, and became intimately acquainted with him. He related how Hayden, in 
1857, then a young man, began his scientific investigations living among the 
Sioux Ind atis and studying the phenomena of Nature in the wild and unexplored 
regions of the West, and stated that Hayden had often told him that to his first 
winter's severe experience away from civilization, he owed all his later success. 
The next paper was one entitled " Prehminary Report on the Geology of 
Norton County," and was read by Robert Hay, of Junction City. 
This paper was unusually mteresting from the fact that it was the result of 
careful scientific investigation by the author. Mr. Hay spent the summer in 
Norton County, the greater portion of the time engaged in making geological 
researches in that region. While there he discovered and exhumed a number of 
rare fossiliferous specimens, and made a valuable and interesting mineralogical 
collection, all of which he exhibited and explained to the Academy during the 
reading of his paper. 
In treating the geology of Norton County he took up first its potamography 
and gave a full description of its river systems and their bed formations. Under 
this head he stated that he had found a number of formations, the first of which 
