174 B. F, Mudge on Fossil Footmarks in Kansas. 
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living species; and if found, and not a device of the systematist, 
they may be recognized as a legitimate part of science, notwith- 
standing the above protest. Reasons for the frequent recurrence 
of three, as the number for the higher subdivisions in zoological 
classification, have been given in my former papers, and nee 
not be here repeated. Protests like the above, while always 
exhibiting a large excess of self-confidence, might sound less 
presumptuous were there not many facts in nature yet to be 
learned. 
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ArT. XXII.— Discovery of Fossil Footmarks in the Liassic (?) For- 
mation in Kansas; by B. F. Mupes, late State Geologist. 
mouth. The sandstone here rises e 
river in a bluff over one’ hundred and twenty-five feet. The 
stratification is not very re ; in many cases showing an un- 
are, if possible, even more marked than in the Connecticut sand- 
stone formation. : 
ticut valley, but it varies more in texture, being frequently quite 
sai eer 
