Correspondence. 131 
Glacial Stri.*: in Kansas. I have just measured (July 8, 1892) the 
direction of undoubted glacial strite in northern Kansas. The striated 
rock is a limestone covered with a stiff boulder-clay. The boulders are 
largely red quartzite, syenite, diorite, slate, and porphyry, the first pre- 
dominating. 
A fair moraine crosses the southern part of Nemaha countj-, where 
the drift is over 100 feet thick. Some of the deeper wells pass through 
a forest bed at the depth of 80 feet. Sticks and carbonaceous earth are 
])rought up from about that depth in several localities. 
The stria' run to the south, southwestward. More exactly they run in: 
Quarry Xo 1, Tn. 3, S., Sec. 17, K. 12, E., S. 24% 36' W. Quarry No. 2, 
30 rods south of Xo. 1, S. 21 , 08' W., both corrected for magnetic 
declination. 
I think that I am right in saying that these are the only stria that 
were formed during the first glacial epoch that have thus far been dis- 
covered in this state. La'ge slabs of the striated limestone have been 
taken from quarries in Nemaha county, and very many of the drift 
boulders are likewise beautifully grooved. L. C. "Wooster. 
Eureka, Kunscs, July S, 1892. 
In the Texas Panhandle. I have had a ride on a gray stallion of 
250 miles (from Big Spring, on the Texas Pacific railroad, almost due 
south of here) and am much the better for it in health. We have had all 
kinds of weather except rain, and this is a dry season even for this dry 
country. The weather has been alternately cold nnd hot, often pi-esent- 
ing a difference between day and night of thirty to forty degrees. Wind 
is almost constant, sometimes amounting to a gale or more, and the 
tendency is of course to keep us cool — sometimes too cool — when the 
wind has been from the north. On the other hand a temperature of 90- 
100 Fah. does not feel hotter here than 7.") -80' in Philadelphia. 
Our greatest difficulty has been bad water; in the last 60 miles before 
reaching here we had only one decent spring, and we had to dig to get 
that free from the pollution of cattle. The other waters were either 
rain-holes or strongly alkaline. 
Our party is in charge of W. F. Cummins of the state survey. Scien- 
tifically we have had a successful trip. Our line has been, along the 
eastern escarpment of the staked plains, with an occasional excursion on 
the plains and across its spurs. We have accessible Permian, Trias, 
Loup Fork, and Blanco beds. Lower down the country we had Creta- 
ceous-marine: all the beds here are lacustrine or estuary. The Blanco 
beds are above the Loup Fork, and contain a new vertebrate fauna, 
mostly mammals. We have so far fourteen species, of Avhich ten are 
new to science, two of of them mastodons. The Loup Fork beds we 
have just discovered here, and the fossils are very numerous. We found 
a grave-yard of horses (three species), camels (two species) and masto- 
dons (one or two species). The ground was covered for acres with tlieir 
bones, and in the bank we got out in a few hours six nearly perfect 
