. History of Lafayette county, Mo. , carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and state of Missouri; a military record of volunteers in either army of the great civil war .. . pped the boundariesof the geological formations of Missouri, and their mineral contents, aspublished in his reports, and in Campbells Atlas of Missouri—St. Louis,1873—a work which has been followed by later investigators, in wo
. History of Lafayette county, Mo. , carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and state of Missouri; a military record of volunteers in either army of the great civil war .. . pped the boundariesof the geological formations of Missouri, and their mineral contents, aspublished in his reports, and in Campbells Atlas of Missouri—St. Louis,1873—a work which has been followed by later investigators, in workingout the minor details of Missouris geology. During the war-time, the HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY. 227 business of the State University and the geological survey were so muchbroken up, that, in 1865, Prof. Swallow accepted an appointment as stategeologist of Kansas, and continued in that work two years. He had pre-viously, in 1858, discovered and determined rocks in Kansas, belonging to thePermian group of geological series. This was the first time that rocks ofthis age were shown to exist in America; and this discovery by Prof. Swal-low, together with his reports on the geology of Missouri and Kansas, andpapers read before the American Association, gave him a high rank andhonorable recognition among the learned societies and savans of Americaand GEORGE CLINTON SWALLOW, M. D.,LL. D., Professor of Geology and Agriculture in the State University of Missouri, and Dean of the State Agricultural College. In 1870 the University of Missouri was enlarged, reconstructed andreorganized on the true university plan—with co-ordinate schools or col-leges of literature, science, art, law, medicine, mines and agriculture. was appointed to the chair of natural history and agricultureand made dean of the agricultural college, which position he still holds. 228 HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY. For nearly thirty years past he has been a working and leading memberof the ag
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