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has been provided. The University has completed arrangements for the inauguration of a geological survey of the state. It is expected that each student doing advanced work will spend one or more summers in the field. Students of geology will confine their labors to Kansas, but those pursuing mineralogy and petrography may go anywhere desirable in order to secure proper territory for prosecuting their studies. The field class the past summer made a satisfactory beginning, so that it has already been demonstrated that such an undertaking is both practical and profitable. The graduate department has already brought graduate students from other states to be enrolled in our University in order to receive the benefit of the superior advantages we offer.
The department is well equipped with the necessary apparatus for doing good work in petrography and physical mineralogy. It has by far the most extensive collection of crystalline rocks in the West, and about one thousand thin microscopic sections made from the same. The mineralogical museum is very superior in every way. Those contemplating an extended course in any of the branches included in this department will do well to enroll in the University of Kansas.
THE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS.
In the geological museum a number of very valuable additions have been made during the past year. The most important of these is a skeleton of an extinct rhinoceros from the Loup Fork Tertiary of Phillips county, Kansas, which is, so far as is known, the only mounted specimen of the kind in existence. The skeleton is complete, and is mounted after the manner of a recent skeleton, standing about four and one-half feet in height by twelve feet in length. The work of mounting has been skillfully done by Mr. Overton, assistant in the geological museum.
Another specimen of scarcely less value and interest is a large slab, twenty feet in length by three and one-half feet in width, upon which is shown two very complete specimens of a Mosaaur (Liodon), mounted in the position in
which they were found in the Cretaceous deposits of western Kansas. The slab is fixed to the west wall of the museum. Other collections for the museum, made during the past summer by Mr. E.C. Case, represent an excellent series of Loup Fork Tertiary leaves from No Man's Land.
Arrangements have been made for an extensive series of excellent casts of some of the most important European fossils, both vertebrates and invertebrates, which it is expected will be placed on exhibition before the close of the year. Restorations of some of the more rare vertebrate fossils of the museum have been published by the curator during the present year, attracting much attention from scientific men, and calling attention to the excellent collections now the property of the University. The two most famous vertebrate paleontologists of this country have visited the University recently to examine the collections.
ENGINEERING.
The School of Engineering is divided into two departments. A part of the work is the same in both departments, but only a small part. The work in general in the departments differs so widely that it is necessary that they be treated separately.
The Civil Engineering Department has entire possession of the third floor of the south half of the Main building. Here are the drafting rooms in which students of the department spend from two to three afternoons a week. In this department are studied practical astronomy, location of railroads, roads and pavements, roofs and bridges, and kindred subjects. Complete and extended work in mathematics is carried on.
The department is well equipped with various transits, levels, and other instruments. In the mechanical course use is made of a very valuable rock and cement testing machine. The department also owns various photographs of celebrated engineering works.
At the last meeting of the Board of Regents the instructors in civil engineering were empowered to give all students in their depart-