Prof. Bciijaiiiifi F. Mudgc. — Williston. 343 
he suddenly became famous. His extensive collections of min- 
eralogy and paleontology were presented to the Agricultural 
College, but, unfortunately, from lack of appreciation by the 
l)olitical head of that institution a large part of the "bones and 
stones" that he had so painfully collected were destroyed or 
thrown out into the yard after his resignation. 
And yet, professor Mudge published not a few important 
contributions to the geology of Kansas, especially in his later 
years, which will be found chiefly in the Transactions of the 
Kansas Academy of Science the Kansas State Board of Agri- 
culture, and the Bulletins of the United States (jeological Sur- 
vey of the Territories, together with numerous articles in the 
more popular periodicals. Mudge made the first geological 
map of the state, which is fairly correct in its main features, 
save for the Lower Cretaceous, which he did not recognize. 
He mapped and described with tolerable accuracy and fullness 
the physical structures of the dififerent Cretaceous and Tertiarv 
horizons, and gave at length general descriptions of their 
stratigraphic features. Much if not most of the information 
thus given was based upon his patient researches in wagon 
and on foot. In general it may be truthfully said that his 
pioneer work in Kansas geology was important and extensive, 
though now largely superseded by more detailed and accurate 
studies. He saved the people of his adopted state many thous- 
ands of dollars by his skilled advice, so freely given that he 
died a comparatively poor man. 
His work in life, however, has chiefly borne fruit as a teach- 
er. He was widely known as an enthusiastic and able lecturer, 
and his courses were always in demand by the teachers and 
scientific men of the state. His quiet modesty and unselfish- 
ness disarmed all envy and jealousy. Of most charming person- 
ality, of wide culture and unbounded enthusiasm his teachings 
made an unusual impression u])on all with whoiu he came in 
contact. In his later years, the kindly faced, plain old gen- 
tleman, as ready to talk with the uncouth farmer as with the 
aristocrat, interested in everything that affected human happi- 
ness or human morals, was known from one end of the state to 
the other, a welcome guest everywhere; and while his enthu- 
siastic eagerness in the discovery of a new fossil or a new fact 
in geology might occasionally bring a snule to the unscientific. 
