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impairing the vigor of his Jarge and well-balanced powers of mind. His 
friends have watched its rogress with alternate hopes and fears, and 
have only recently yielded to the sad conviction that his allotted work 
sorrowful, personal bereavement. He leaves a devoted wife, who has been 
many years literally the sharer of his labors, to mourn her irreparable loss 
and bear the burden of solitude in the midst of society. A.C. 
; pr.—Mr. Burkhardt, long associated with Prof. Agassiz as 
his artist, died on the 20th of February last, from the effects of a disease 
consequent on exposure in the course of the late Brazilian expedition. 
VI, MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. First Annual Report on the Geology of Kansas ; by B. F. Muver, 
A.M., Prof. of Geology and Nat. Hist. in the Kansas State Agricult. Col- 
lege, and State Geologist for 1864. Lawrence, 1866. 56 pp., 8vo. 
—especially in regard to the saline springs, and the manufacture of salt, 
but nothing new to science. 
The second Report is a more important work. It contains the results 
of an examination of Eastern and Central Kansas, made in 1865, and in- 
cludes the separate Reports of Dr. C. A. Logan on the sanitary relations 
of the State, that of Dr. T. Sinks on its Climatology, and the Report of 
the Assistant Geologist, Major F. Hawn. : 
A detailed section of the rocks of Eastern Kansas is first given, in which 
the classification of the Permian proposed by Swallow and Hawn is essen- 
tially retained. This makes the formation in that region about 700 feet 
in thickness, or nearly three times that admitted by Meek and Hayden 
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low. In this Report these strata are considered as d 
claimed by Prof. Swallow that a want of conformability may 
very important one, and deserves further investigation. ie 
_ , According to this Report the oldest rocks in the State are Lower Car- 
boniferous. The Coal-measures oceupy the surface of Eastern Kansas 
over an area of 17,000 square miles, and dip beneath the Permian to 
