Kansas University Weekly.
61
Rare Old Bones.
The University expeditions to western Kansas and to the Bad Lands after fossils this summer were very successful. This is true even in a business sense, for the market value of the fossils brought home amounts to several times the cost of the expeditions.
The richest prize unearthed on the Wyoming trip is the skull of a Triceratops, one of the gigantic Ceratopsidae, or horned Dinosaurs. These animals are estimated to have weighed twenty or thirty tons each, and the word gigantic hardly expresses their immense size. The skull alone is over six feet long, four feet broad and three feet thick, and weighed, ready for shipment, twenty-five hundred pounds. When mounted in the museum, it will weigh about fifteen hundred pounds. In shape the skull is broad and flat with immense horns projecting from the forehead. It was found imbedded in limestone with the left side exposed and partially destroyed by the action of the weather. Owing to the hardness of the limestone and the brittleness of the bone, the task of removing the former is a very delicate one, and it will probably take six months to restore and mount the specimen ready for the museum. Only two other specimens have ever been found, and they were discovered a few years ago in the same locality as ours by a party from Yale, which must now share the honor with Kansas.
Some very valuable specimens were also found in western Kansas. Among them were two complete skeletons of an extinct buffalo which was two feet taller than those now living; they are thought to belong to a new species, distinguished from any yet discovered. There was also found a skeleton of the bird with teeth, which is so rare and valuable; it is a very fine specimen—probably the best in the world. Altogether about five tons of fossils were brought in, and Dr. Williston is greatly elated by his success.
Scrubbing Brushes and Paint.
The new superintendent, Mr. T. C. White, has had a number of men at work during the past two months making ready for the opening of school. Besides the usual cleaning up of buildings and grounds, a number of repairs and alterations have been made. The walls in the angles between the wings and the main part of the main building have been repaired and the window frames reset. A stone subway has been constructed for the steam pipes leading to Snow Hall and the main building, so that they may be more easily repaired in case of accident. The furniture and apparatus is nearly all in place in the new Physics Building, and is being kept under lock and key by contractor Holcraft. However, the authorities anticipate little trouble in getting possession of the building whenever it is needed. The rooms in the basement of the main building, made vacant by the removal of the Engineering Department, are being fitted up as laboratories for the Chemistry Department, which is so badly crowded in its own building. The students are also promised one of the rooms as a lunch room. A new showerbath has been erected in the basement of Snow Hall, in the room occupied by the lockers, where it will be very convenient for those using the gymnasium. And, but everyone has seen the finger-marks in that beautiful new paint on the front doors.
University students desiring to get instruction in Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Penmanship, etc., can be accommodated at the Lawrence Business College, without interfering with University work. Charges reasonable A.G.COONROD, Prin.
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