Mining and Geology Edition.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PTERODACTYL WAS FIRST MONOPLANE IN KANSAS
Almost Limited to State—Has Wing-Spread of Twenty- Two Feet
THE WRIGHTS STUDIED IT
Many Other Vertebrate Fossils Are Found In Kansas Rocks
Kansas and many paleontologists, is famed for its vertebrate fossils. The Cretaceous strata of the western part of the state are especially prolific in fossils of ancient vertebrates, many of which are extremely rare in other parts of the world, or by no means so well prepared. Their ancient reptiles, mammals and birds are on display in the Dyke Museum.
BV SHERWIN F. KELLY
The best exposures for finding fossils are in the Smoky Hill and Solomon River valleys, and in the counties of Trego, Logan, Gove, and Graham. The richest ground is from about the center of the exposures west to the state line. The width of the outcrops must be one hundred and eighty miles.
A great many of the specimens were collected in the western part of this state by H. T. Martin, curator of the museum. He is well-known as a collector of fossils, and has thirty years experience at the work, in which time he has obtained many rare and valuable specimens.
In the shale exposures of Trego Country are found areas rich in fossil fishes, quite unlike those of today. The latter consist of various types of various sorts found in Gove County. In the higher yellow shales farther west, however, are the flying reptiles and the strange birds with teeth for which Kansas' fossils are so
OUEER ANIMALS OF PAST
One of the most interesting of these fossils is Hesperornis, a giant, toothed bird standing four feet high, something like the modern penguin, apparently an excellent diver, but a poor hand at flying. One of the best specimens of Hesperornis in existence is that collected by Mr. Martin, in the south room of the third floor of the Dvehe Museum.
Next in value, although possibly more interesting to the layman is the Pterodactyl. This was a flying reptile of weird appearance. He was shaped like a bat, but had a long beak, and was much bigger than the beast of the Pterodactyl in the museum, but there are many parts and limbs from which one may get a good idea of what the beast looked like. There is one front leg on the west wall of the south room that is about eight feet long. One specimen has a body about two inches wide, and spread of eight feet, but the bones were so thin and fragile that it weighed but five pounds.
One specimen found by Harry Martin in Logan County, a complete specimen with a nine-foot spread of wing, is now in Calton. Another in Inverness, a ninety-foot spread of wing spread of nearly twenty-two feet. Mr. Martin characterizes the pterodactyl as the "first monoplane." The specimen in Chicago was studied by the Wright brothers, in trying to get hints "how to fly," in the preface to *Maryland Reports* to Kalighani although a few imperfect specimens have been found in Europe.
A fine specimen of an ancient buf
PROOF OF ANCIENT HUNTERS falo was found and mounted by Mr. Martin. It is now in the museum. Beneath its shoulder blade an Indian arrow head was embedded. The find was far enough underground to exclude the position of that implement, gotten there accidentally, and it is taken as proof of the exist-ence of man on this continent ages ago.
Another complete and interesting specimen in the museum is a Pleisoaurs, a marine reptile, collected by Mr. Steinberg, and mounted by Mr. Martin after months of labor. It is the only complete specimen of its kind. Mr. Martin claims that it is the original "submarine."
A less rare but more spectacular exhibit is that of the skull of Triceratops in the south room. It is an enormous head, with two horns on the snout, and great sunken horns. The skull has five eyes and flat at least three. This beast had so little room. for brains that he has been dubbed the "Original Bonehead."
RARE STONE LILIES
in the north room on the third floor of the museum is a big rock slab bearing on its surface what appears to be a lot of stone illies. They are not illies, however, but Crinoids. Crinoids were animals that lived in the distant past, growing on stems, attached to the sea bottoms, and their bodies resemble the calyx of a flower. This slab consists of a species called Untacrinus socialis. Before Mr. Martin found a bed of these fossils three hundred feet square the species was known from only three or four specimens. He discovered this bed of Uintauce accidentally one day on his boat.
Fossil collecting is a job requiring much skill and experience. In getting fossils out of the rocks it is often necessary to dig them, or dig down considerable distance. After the specimens have been exposed, they are trenched on all sides, and a slab of desired thickness is undercut. The fossils exposed are cow-shaped, with some protruding in burlap soaked with flour paste which hardens and protects them from breaking in shipment. The wrapped pieces are then boxed and placed in a display at the museum the fossil is taken out of its box, cleaned, and mounted.
To Prof. S. W. Williston, now on the University of Chicago, formerly professor of geology, zoology and paleontology at the University of Kansas, one of the best known paleontologists, has earned a credit for the unusual completeness and perfection of this museum of vertebrate paleontology.
BASEBALL PRACTICES BRIGHTEN PROSPECTS
Incessant Volley of Loud Reports Indicate Increasing Battery Ability
Seventeen candidates for the battery positions on the 1917 Jayhawker nine have reported to Coach McCarty for the preliminary spring practices, held in the Robinson gymnasium afternoon from two until four o'clock.
The first clash on the Jayhawker schedule is only a month away and will be played on McCook Field, April 5, with the Kansas Normal nine. There have been practice but the coach is anxious to start out-of-door practice and will take his men to McCook just as soon as the weather permits. The rest of the candidates for the team practice is staged.
The prospects are bright for a nine that will take the Missouri Valley Conference championship this year according to both Coach McCarty and Captain George Smee. The material for the squad this year is more serious than in previous several years. Seven K. men are back to make places on the team again.
The Cornhuskers, Tigers, and Argies, the Missouri Valley Conference nines that will meet the Jayhawkers who compete in these practice, and advance dope indicates they will have strong teams. The Cornhuskers will have to develop an entirely new team but Manager Reed Anderson has no candidates for all the positions.
Captain George Smee had charge o the Jayhawker battery squad practice Saturday afternoon in the gymnasium. Coach McCarthy and Hamilton and Posty Clark were with the Jayhawker track men at Urbana and Coach McCarty had charge of the track men who entered the Kansas Athletic Club meet at Kansas City.
The candidates who have reported for the pitching position are: Captim斯 George Smee, Halleck Craig, Constant Poirier, Wint Smith, Claude Voorhout, Robbie Garner, Bradley Wilbur Fischer, Kenneth Boddyridge, and Alexander Bell.
The candidates for the catching positions are: Walter Smith, Marion Sawyer, Sarah Island, Ubert Walters, Leslie Crowder, Ubert Walters, and George Marquis.
K. U. TESTS CLAY FOR STATE
Small Model Brick Plant Produces Brick Equal to Com-
The clay laboratory of the University is one of the most interesting and essential additions to the school. The heavy machinery room is made up of hardened ceramic material sent to the University from all over the state. These tests consist of making all kinds of tilling, paving brick, and pottery to determine whether the soil is suitable for excavation specifically. The clay proper burning of these products are two kilns.
mercial Plant
All the more scientific tests are made in a separate room equipped with delicate apparatus with which detailed information may be obtained concerning the physical and chemical properties of the sample. Tests performed in these laboratory rooms are made on materials from all over the state. The study of Kansas is being used by research manufacturers, to both the quality and the quantity of the products made, is another object of our laboratory, which is well equipped and adapted to the work above outlined. Its chief purpose is to build up greater efficiency in the ceramic industry of Kansas.
A Corner in the Mining Museum
"About me? Oh, just look in "Who's
Who?" and you'll find all you want to
know. All I have ever done is there
in print."
So a Who's who was found and then the "H" section was questioned instead of the owner of the name beginning with "H."
Men You Know—and Don't
Haworth, Erasmus; geologist; b.iowa farm April 17, 1855; grad. K. U.B.S. 1881, M.s. M.184, Ph.D. John Hopkins 1888, m. Ida E. Huntsman in Iowa, March 26, 1890, prof. geo. and mineralogy K. u. Since 1822; organometer K. u. Since 1822; Surveys work in Kas, Tex, Ola, Mo, Neb, et al. Has devoted much time to economic geology. Address: Lawrence, Kansas.
Then for further evidence that his name really is in the "Who's Who" he displayed a copy of "American Men of Science," a book dealing with the nature and importance of Daddy's name is there also and he is starred. A star means that his work in his particular line has been most important in the world of science. Of the thousand scientists starred there many geologists. Daddy is one of them.
Then politics was suggested.
Besides being a star in his line, he is a strong fraternity man. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is his social brotherhood and Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi made him a member way back in the eighties. Daddy is a felicitation to his family. Society of America and a life member of the Kansas Academy of Science. He is also an honorary member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon.
"Nix," said Dad (or words something like that). "A K. U. professor should not mix his teaching with off-road driving, even if he's never time." Don’t even go to movies.
"But I would take the presidency—when this war is over. But not before. Further than that, my aspirations for office do not extend."
A person doesn't hear much of Erasmus Haworth. He goes about his work in a nice, quiet way. But in his twenty-five years at the University of Kansas, he spent most of surveys of Kansas and has helped on four others. He knows Kansas topography and Kansas geology. In this oil-well time Prof. Haworth has been of great help to the men who find the wells. His own students are artists in the oil fields. But he hasn't bought any oil wells of his own.
That Daddy is the name of respect substituted by his students for Prof. It comes from the feeling his students have from all ways will have for Daddy Haworth.
"Erasmus is to be found in the story of the Reformation. My grand-father's father liked the name. My grandfather was named that. Then I came along and was named Erasmus," explained Professor Haworth.
His real name is Erasmus. It reminds one of the Latin conjugation, "Eram, Eras, Erat, Eramus," that is taught in high school.
If Daddy were a youngster, it is to be feared that he would have another name, also. The "gang" might call Jim Fatty.
But it is his fatness that is his personality. "Everybody loves n—" And you will like Professor Haworth. Everybody does.
"I if I had to do it all over again, I would be a geologist," said Mr. Haworth. "It is the greatest occupation going. A man either can use it for his purposes or he may study it for the love of the thing. That's why I like it."
Clay drain tile production in Kansas is very slight, in spite of the promise of some of the clays and the high market price of tile. Only one of the Poole Brick and Tile Plant, is regularly producing such products.
And Daddy smiled.
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-Adv.
To class of young men: "Students who expectate on the floor cannot expect to rate high in their classes."
TEACH GEOLOGY BY MAIL
Mining Courses Are Also Given by the Extension Division
The brick manufacturing industry in Kansas has decreased surprisingly, in spite of the advance in the price of brick. At last report, only fourteen or fifteen plants were in operation.
The plant of the American Rock Salt Company at Lyons, Kas., which was burned last May, has been rebuilt and remodeled. The mine will shortly produce from 50 to 60 carloads of salt per day.
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Home study combined with correspondence instruction in mining engineering is not an experiment but a tried and proved success, according to Harold G. Ingham, of the Extension Division of the University.
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Kansas has enough clay, limestone, gypsum, and fuel to supply cement for many generations. And this is a cement age.
that are in a class by themselves, so far as Lawrence is concerned.
Last July Governor Capper appointed Professor Terrill as delegate to the Governmental Labor Officials Convention of the United States and Canada at Buffalo, N. Y. He stayed at Kansas until the Officials Conference which immediately followed. Many questions of interest to Kansas were discussed.
Where twelve or more are enrolled in a class in any community, the Extension Division will send an instructor from the department of mining to conduct classes and hold conferences with the students. The fee is $10 a year for residents of Kansas and $15 for non-residents.
Courses are offered in general mining, ore dressing, ventilation of mines, explosions, and coal mining. There is a separate coal mining course which carries five hours' credit. Young men looking forward to the position of pit boss are especially interested in the general mining courses.
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