THE PROBLEM OF OUR SOILS AND SOIL MOISTURE. The soil survey of the state, which was begun by the author in November of 1892, has progressed to the point where it might be considered finished. That is, one or more samples of soils have been taken from every distinct soil region in the state-in fact, most of the separate counties are represented, and...
In the summer of 1896, at the suggestion of Professor Erwin H. Barbour, Director of the Nebraska Geological Survey, the writer began a study of the fossil bryozoa of the state.
About ten miles north of Omaha, or three miles north of Florence, Nebraska, on a hill weathered out of the Loess formation, a circular burial mound was recently observed and explored by Mr. Robert F. Gilder.
Unconsciously or otherwise an investigator is often influenced to see that which seems confirmatory rather than that which is contradictory to his conceptions and beliefs. But in conducting the search for evidence of human remains in the Pleistocene the writer has striven against this psychological tendency and has aimed to be severely critical and...
The Nebraska Geological Survey as now constituted has been in operation since 1891, but it has enjoyed state aid during the past four years only. Considering the size of the commonwealth and the limited appropriations for geological work, unusual progress has been made. Since no report covering the work of the first biennium was prepared it will be...
The opening of Indian country has continued from Colonial days to the present. Usually it has resulted from force and treaty, the strong dispossessing the weak. As a result, the Red man has, in general, moved frontierward, ahead of industrial waves, remaining for a longer time only on reservations set aside for tribes. The Indian's struggle even on...
