ORGANIZATION AND OBJECTS. 
In organizing a University Geological Survey of Kansas a full 
and complete geological survey of the state was contemplated. 
The work will necessarily have to be done with relative slowness, 
which may not prove to be a disadvantage. It is expected that it 
wil be done by the members of the University faculty, their ad- 
vanced students, and other individuals, citizens of the state or 
otherwise, who are willing to give their time and energies to the 
state a few months of the year in assisting to carry out investi- 
gations interesting and scientific in character, and valuable in 
many ways in their results, the compensation for which is to be 
an increase in the knowledge of nature, an opportunity to study 
geology in the field, a medium of publication by means of which: 
they may have their labors brought before the world, and the con-. 
sciousness of having added a mite to the “increase and dissemina-- 
tion of knowledge among men.” Since the University has opened. 
a graduate department in geology and paleontology it may not be ai 
vain hope that the survey will help to build up these departments,. 
and thereby produce a reactionary good in addition to those above 
named. 
It is contemplated by the Board of Regents that the interested 
departments in the University will severally be responsible, not 
only for the work accomplished under the departments, but for the 
degree of energy and zeal with which it is prosecuted. Each will 
therefore be expected to issue reports from time to time on the 
work done, reports covering greater or lesser subjects, or natural 
divisions, of the great science of geology. At the outset it was 
agreed by all that the investigations in general stratigraphy, areal 
boundaries, and allied subjects should be taken up first, after which 
other divisions should follow in natural order. 
The present volume, Volume II of the series, is prepared prin- 
