684 : General Notes. [ September, 
= thing. These were found inabout 
Sea the fifth or sixth layer below 
| the alluvial deposit referred to, 
| and have a dip perhaps of about 
| six degrees to southwards. But 
| found, in this vicinity, imbedded 
in the recent rocks such as that 
Footprints of Dinornis (Moa). footprints in relief. i 
The original is now in the museum of the University of Cali- 
fornia, Berkeley.—C. D. Voy. 
gether with all its right and left hand branches. After that I 
went to the Big Wichita, and traveled over all that region for 
about one hundred miles, from the mouth of the river and along 
its branches on both sides. 
The time which I consumed in these regions amounted to over 
six months. The result of my investigations surpassed in scien- 
tific aspects all my expectations. I found not only many oo 
plants and animals, consisting of petrified ferns, fishes and reptiles, 
but discovered a new extinct vegetable and animal world, hitherto 
wholly unknown in America. According to these petrifica- 
tions, the whole region spoken of belongs to the transition period, 
and especially to the permian formation; both the lower and the 
upper are therein apparent. 
In a mineralogical view I found there the following: 
A. Rocks—sandstone as well as limestone is abundantly 
