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ico, and other places in the Southwest, and obtained results 
which have an indirect bearing on Kansas geology. It seems 
they did not actually enter the state of Kansas and therefore 
_¢an hardly be included in the list of Kansas geologists. 
~ Maj. F. Hawn was located at Fort Leavenworth, being at- 
tached to the United States army. He spent a considerable 
portion of his time in a study of the geology of eastern Kansas 
and adjacent areas, played an important part in the recogni- 
tion of Permian fossils in Kansas, which established the fact 
that Permian rocks occur in the Mississippi valley, did a great 
work in the discovery of coal at Leavenworth, and, in fact, or- 
ganized the first company and superintended the sinking of the 
first shaft which discovered coal, and in other ways added 
greatly to our knowledge of Kansas geology in early times. 
He published principally in the Reports of Missouri State 
Geological Survey, Transactions St. Louis Academy of 
Science, Geological Survey Report of Kansas under Professor 
Swallow, and in different governmental reports. In the pref- 
ace to his report as state geologist, published in 1866, Prof. G. 
C. Swallow speaks of Major Hawn as follows: “Maj. F. Hawn 
has given the Survey the full benefit of his intimate and ex- 
tensive knowledge of the state and its resources, and the col- 
lections made during his previous explorations, in connection 
with the lineal surveys of the general government. His re- 
ports are full of scientific and practical information.” 
Prof. F. B. Meek was a veteran of early-day geological work 
in many parts of the Mississippi valley. He worked and pub- 
lished principally with Dr. F. V. Hayden, who was at the head 
of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the 
Territories. Professor Meek made a number of excursions 
through Kansas, the most notable being the one made with Dr. 
F. V. Hayden. Their own description of the route traveled is 
as follows:! 
“The route pursued by us while making these investigations 
was first from Leavenworth city, on the Missouri, across the 
country to Indianola, near the mouth of Soldier creek, on the 
Kansas; thence up the north side of Kansas and Smoky Hill 
rivers to the mouth of Solomon’s Fork. Here we crossed the 
Smoky Hill, and followed it up on the south side to a point near 
the ninety-eighth degree of west longitude, from which point 
we struck across the country in a southeast direction to the 
Santa Fe road, which we followed northeastward to the head 
1. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1859, p. 8. 
