400 The American Geologist. June, 1895 
The Univkhsity of Kansas luis recently distributed the fol- 
lowing statement concerning u geological svirvey of the state: 
In conformity with the hiw under whicli tlic Univ(>rsity of Kansas is 
now working, the Board of Regents, at a recent meeting, formally or- 
ganized the University Geological Survey of Kansas, with Chancellor 
F. H. Snow, ex-officio director; professor S. W. Williston, paleontolo- 
gist; professor Erasmus llaworth, geologist and mineralogist, and pro- 
fessor E. H. S. Bailey, chemist. 
In addition to these, other members of the university faculty will be 
engaged upon the work of the survey, as well as the advanced students 
of the departments of geology and i)aleontology. An effort will also be 
made to centralize and unify the energies of different geologists in the 
state who have been doing valuable work along ditferent lines of geo- 
logical investigations. Already a considerable start has been made and 
the co-operation of different geologists of the slate has been secured. 
The policy of the survey will be conservative, with the expectation 
that it will be continued and eventually include all other branches of 
the natural history of the state. The general stratigraphy of the state 
will first be elaborated in order that it may be used in the furtherstudy 
of various questions of economic and scientific importance, all of which 
will be taken up as rapidly as existing conditions from time to time will 
permit. 
Work in the Coal Measures of the state has been in progress for two 
summers, and volume I of the report is now almost ready for publica- 
tion. Other volumes will appear at irregular intervals. Those already 
under preparation are; one on coal, oil and gas; one on the vertebrate 
paleontology of the state; and one on the salt and gypsum deposits of 
Kansas. 
An improved kock cutter and trimmer is described by Mr. 
Edgar Kidwell in the American Journal of Science for May. 
This machine is quite simple in construction and has been 
used by the Michigan Geological Survey during the last j^ear 
with good results. It can be obtained from Merrill Brothers, 
465 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Mr. T. C. Hopkins, formerly of the Arkansas Geological 
Survey, has been appointed assistant geologist in Indiana. He, 
together with Mr. Blatchy, state geologist, expects to spend 
the coming field season working up the building stones of the 
Carboniferous. 
An atlas of the state of New York will be published in a 
few weeks by Julius Bien & Co. Among other features it 
will contain temperature, rainfall, and hypsometric maps of 
the state. 
Dr. J. G. Norwood, Emeritus Professor of Physics in the 
University of Missouri, died May 6th, in his eighty-eighth 
year. He is well known to western geologists through his 
reports which accompany the " Report of a Geological Survey 
of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota," by Dr. D. D. Owen. In 
a future number we expect to present a sketch of Dr. Nor- 
wood's life, written by Prof. G. C. Broadhead. 
