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[[image-pencil sketch of rock strata]][image captions]] Loess veneer. Loveland 4 ft. Slump stuff Mostly calcareous, with few pebbles, and small boulders, Source iron tubes [[& Q.?]] 12 ft Blue Kansan Chocolate colored Kansan. Sandy silt (whitish) Aftonian - 2 ft. Slump. MnO[[subscript]]2[[/subscript]] 6 ft | Oxidized, cross-bedded sand 5 ft| gravel [[end page]] [[start page]] 161 The line between the Loveland & Kansan is sharp, and slightly irregular. The lower line of the Kansan is about horizontal. At base of bed of Aftonian there is a layer of boulders - not a continuous deposit, but more or less scattered. Mr. Whitham's house. He has a few buffalo & deer bones, & a buffalo horn - from. slumpy material - quite modern. Also heavy hard Aftonian bones. Horse - bones. Also several horse teeth, etc. [[line]] Also examined material in Atchison County Mail office. Two pieces - 1 a buffalo femur, - not Aftonian The other is a part of Elephas tooth.