372 PROCEEDINGS OF WASHINGTON MEETING. 



report as geologist in charge of the special artesian and underflow in- 

 vestigation, conducted under the auspices of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, were ready to be placed in his hands in Washington he was called 

 to his Kansas home to attend the last illness of his wife, and that report 

 went to press full of typographical errors and without his final revision. 

 It is a singular coincidence that his own death prevented his seeing the 

 proofs of the paper on the geology of the Fort Riley Military Reservation, 

 which has only recently appeared. 



In personal appearance and deportment Professor Hay was plain, 

 modest, and unassuming ; in character gentle, religious, and irreproach- 

 able. I had the pleasure of being intimately associated with him and 

 of knowing him in the office, at his home, and in the field, and I am 

 glad of this opportunity to testify to these qualities. He was void of 

 guile or vindicativeness, and while keenly feeling the force of certain 

 anonymous attacks upon some of his writings, he displayed no feelings 

 of revenge, but pursued the even tenor of his way, calm and content in 

 the knowledge that he had worked for the right, that he had intentionally 

 injured no one, and that time would vindicate him, as it has done. 



For many years of his life he had a helpful companion in his wife, a 

 lady of unusual literary and artistic merit, who was deeply interested in 

 and associated with her husband's labors. She died about four years 

 ago. Most of his papers were illustrated by her hands. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY.* 



Artesian wells in relation to irrigation in western Kansas : 1880, 11 pages (prepared 



for Report of Kansas State Board of Agriculture for August-September, 1880). 

 The igneous rocks of Kansas : Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 8, 1882, pp. 14-18. 

 In the " Dakota: " Proc. Seventeenth Annual Meeting Kansas Acad. Sci., 1884. 

 Notes on the fossil jaw of bison from the Pliocene of Norton county : Ibid. (Paper 



read November 26. ) 

 Preliminary report on the geology of Norton county, Kansas : Trans. Kansas Acad. 



Sci., vol. 9, 1885, pp. 17-24, pi. 

 A geological section in Wilson county, Kansas: Ibid., vol. 10, 1888, pp. 6-8, pi. 

 Report on geology : Ibid., pp. 21, 22. 

 Natural gas in eastern Kansas: Ibid., pp. 57-62, pis. Abstract from Fifth Report of 



Kansas State Board of Agriculture. 

 Note on a remarkable fossil: Ibid., pp. 128, 129 (f p.), pi. 

 Historical sketch of geological rocks in the state of Kansas, Robert Hay and A. H. 



Thompson: Ibid., pp. 45-52. 

 Horizon of the Dakota lignite: Ibid., vol. 11, 1889, pp. 5-8. Abstract in Am. 



Geologist, vol. 5, 1889, pp. 249, 250 (5 lines). 

 The geology of Kansas [lecture] : Ibid., pp. 35-37. 



* Prepared by Miss Jean M. Hay, of Junction City, Kansas, the surviving daughter of Professor 

 Hay. 



