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wind, rain, and hail struck the camp, scattering the camp equipment, perforating the stove pipes, and battering the stoves. The members of the party were severely pelted, and the teamster was knocked unconscious by a heavy hailstone.
Nothing daunted by this unpropitious beginning, the party at once set to work to obtain what they had come to find. It took them about a week to learn where to look and what to look for. The first week was spent on the Titanotherium beds. Enough bones of the Titan were found to form a complete skull.
The collections that were made which are of particular value are: A complete skull of the Ilotherium; a nearly complete skeleton of a Saber-tooth tiger—the only specimen of the kind that has ever been found, the species before this being known only by a foot; and the larger part of the skeleton of a very peculiar animal—a ruminant with claws. Portions only of this ruminant have yet been found, and there is much discussion concerning it.
Besides these specimens—which are of great value—many other finds were made including the complete skull of a Mosasaur from the Cretaceous beds; four different kinds of reptiles from the lower Miocene beds; and twenty-four different genera of Mammals, ranging in size from the mouse to the elephant. There are enough of those specimens to fill entirely another case in the museum.
Many fine photographs were taken in the Bad Lands. About forty of them will be made into lantern slides.
The party returned to Lawrence about the first of August, having accomplished as much as has ever been accomplished by any one expedition to the fossil beds of the Cheyenne.
The work done in the Chinch Bug Department is somewhat heavier this season than last. Last year six thousand farmers were supplied with infected bugs from the main station and the sub-stations. This year that
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number of farmers has been supplied from the University station alone, and the forty sub-stations have supplied an average of five hundred farmers each, making a total of twenty thousand for the sub-stations. This, added to the six thousand from the University laboratory, makes a total of twenty-six thousand, and this number includes only those applications filled up to the first of August. It is possible that the total number will be raised to thirty thousand by the end of the season.
Among the University students in charge of sub-stations, we find the names of Geo. I. Adams at Emporia, Theo. H. Sheffer at Minneapolis, J. A. Simpson at Mankato, Logan at Beloit, E. C. Hickey at Abilene, and John Hall at Fulton.
Applications for infected bugs have been received from nine States: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Virginia, Texas, Arkansas California, and Illinois.
The work in the Department has been crippled considerably by the smallness of the appropriation. Practically all field work has been dispensed with. All interested in the work are greatly in hopes that the appropriation will be raised to a sum sufficient to carry on the work next year in a manner worthy of the State of Kansas.
THE ENGINEERS AT CAMP MORAL.
There was another party of students and professors that made an expedition this Summer. They did not go far from the University, but they did good work and had a fine time. The Civil Engineers, led by Professors Marvin and Murphy, established Camp Moral six miles northwest of Mount Oread. Camp Moral was spelled all the way from Morrill to More 'ell, but we are informed that Moral was correct, being taken from the name given the leader of the party in "A College Comedy." For the surveying work, the party was divided into gangs of three each; H. H. Johnson, C. C. Crew, and T. B. Sears; H. J. Withington, Otis Allen, and Alfred Wise; J. A. Lahmer, G. J. Graves,