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All these have been filed away, awaiting the time when volumes will be completed and handed over to the state printer for binding. We have not less than 500 volumes awaiting the binder, and as soon as possible these will be bound and placed on our shelves.

In the cataloguing of books we have, at this date, only been able to arrange our books in sets and by states and countries, and a card catalogue of reference is prepared to facilitate the finding of books. We yet await a much-needed subject card catalogue to which seekers for information may refer. The state-house contains a much larger collection of books than is found in any other place in Kansas. First, there is the state library, originally for law-books only, and so naturally under the management of the supreme court. Subsequently large collections of miscellaneous books have been added to the trust of the same board of directors, with the assistance of subordinate boards. Additions are made by exchanges of the various state publications, and by funds provided for the purchase of books. The Stormont medical library and the "traveling library" are distinct parts of the state library, provided for by statute. These are operated by commissions, of which the state librarian is ex officio chair

man.

Provision is made by law for the State Historical Society to acquire books, and, acting under the statutes, they have accumulated the next largest number in the state-house. For purposes of exchange they may claim "sixty bound copies each of the several publications of the state, and of its societies and institutions, except the reports of the supreme court."

The State Agricultural and Horticultural Societies as well as the Academy of Science have each considerable libraries, obtained by exchange or purchase of books. Of all these the state library is the only one having made any considerable beginning of a card catalogue on the Dewey system. To do this properly requires expert knowledge as well as much labor. For greatest advantage to the state, such a catalogue should include all the libraries in the capitol building, and all of them ought to be brought under one head.

One of the evils of the present lack of system is the accumulation of duplicate copies of many publications, and this is especially true of government works, printed in Washing

While it is true that duplicates may be convenient in some cases, for the greater part it is simply a waste, and the expense of it could supply other much needed wants. If all these libraries were under one management, with a competent head librarian, there could be departments, each covering a certain field, and not including the books belonging to other departments. Thus, the law library would include those publications needed by the courts and lawyers. The scientific department would include all books such as the proceedings of scientific societies, Smithsonian reports, books on geology, natural history, astronomy, mathematics and medicine. Another department would be devoted to literature and history. Each of these would be distinct from the museum collections. The general office would contain encyclopedias, dictionaries and books of reference, as well as the general catalogue of all books found in these libraries. All exchanges would be directed by a single set of officers. Current periodical literature would be kept on file and be accessible for consultation in the department to which it belongs. Our state library would then be of great educational value and a Mecca for all students who come to Topeka.

On motion, the report of the secretary was adopted.

The president announced his appointment of committees as follows:

On nominations: Messrs. Knaus, Bailey, and Miss Meeker.
On resolutions: Messrs. Dyche, J. G. Shirk, and Deere.
On program: Messrs. Bushong, Wooster, and Mead.
On press: Messrs. A. J. Smith, McWarf, and Sayre.

On necrology: Messrs. Lovewell, Thompson, and Mrs. Smyth.

On membership: Messrs. B. B. Smyth, Sternberg, and Hoyt.

On time and place of next meeting: Messrs. C. J. Shirk, Iden, and Scheffner.

On publication: Messrs. Yates, Lovewell, and Dains.

The last committee is composed of the retiring president, the secretary, and one member from Topeka, and was determined by vote of the Academy, according to the rule adopted last year.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

The treasurer was called upon, and reported as follows:

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Referred to A. J. Shirk for audit, who reported that he found it correct. Report of treasurer adopted.

The Academy next proceeded to the reading and discussion of papers, of which the following program was published in the announcement of this meeting, and they will be referred to by the numbers given:

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

1. The Value of the Work of the Scientist to Humanity, James A. Yates.

CHEMICAL PAPERS.

2. Natural Gas Obtained from Trees, F. W. Bushong and D. F. McFarland.

3. Percentage of Extractives in Certain Drugs and Spices, L. E. Sayre.

4. Public Health and the Quality of Medicinal Preparations, L. E. Sayre.

. 5. Progress of the Survey of the Waters of Kansas-
Chemical Work, Professors Bailey and Bushong.

Bacteriological Work, Professor Barber and Mr. Starin.
Engineering Problems, Professor Hoad.

Field-work, H. N. Parker, Asst. Hydrographer, U. S. G. S.

6. Steel-hardening Minerals, J. C. Cooper.

7. Gastric Ferments, Dr. C. F. Menninger.

8. On the Reactions of Formanidines, F. B. Dains and E. W. Brown.

GEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

9. Some Studies in Dakota Fossil Plants, A. W. Jones.

10. Summary of Glacial Literature Relating to Glacial Deposits. 11. Animals, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, Albert B. Reagan.

12. My Expedition to the Kansas Chalk, on my own account, and for the Tubingen University, for 1907, Chas. H. 'Sternberg.

13. A Fossil Tooth and Other Bones from Phillips County, J. T. Lovewell.

BIOLOGICAL PAPERS.

14. Some Observations on the Food Habits of the Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristatus), L. L. Dyche.

15. A Curious "Impatiens," Grace R. Meeker.

ENTOMOLOGY.

16. Additions to the List of Kansas Coleoptera, W. Knaus.

17. Notes on Coleoptera, W. Knaus.

18. List of Coleoptera Collected in New Mexico in 1907, W. Knaus. 19. Some Photographs of Balsam Mounts of Phengodes fusciceps Secured from McPherson, Kan., W. Knaus.

20. List of Noctuidæ, Geometrida and Microlepidoptera, taken at McPherson, Kan., July and August, 1907, W. Knaus.

21. The Staphylinidæ, Scaphidiidæ, Phalancridæ, Corylophidæ, Coccinellida, Endomychidæ and Erotylidæ of Kansas, W. Knaus.

22. A Parasite on Eggs of Mantis, Mrs. Lumina C. R. Smyth.

23. Notes on Protozoa found in Central Park Lake, Topeka, Mrs. Lumina C. R. Smyth.

24. A New Species of Campostoma, F. F. Crevecœur.

25. Observations on Ants of Arizona and Their Auxiliary Captive Beetles, Eugene G. Smyth.

GENERAL BIOLOGY.

26. Antiquity of Man's Body-building Instincts, L. C. Wooster.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS.

27. Tuberculosis, B. R. Rogers.

28. Man Abnormal, J. M. McWharf.

29. Anthropology as a Science, A. H. Thompson.

30. Some Scientific Frauds and Fallacies, W. F. Hoyt.

31. The Buried City of the Panhandle, T. L. Eyerly.

32. Climatology in Kansas (second paper), T. P. Jennings.

33. Heredity in Stock-breeding, I. D. Graham.

34. The Election of the Indian Governor at Jemez, New Mexico, December 29, 1900, Albert B. Reagan.

35. Perfect, Zigzag, and Tesselated Squares, and Harmonics and Magic Hexagons, Bernard B. Smyth.

36. Energia as Seen in Bacillaria, A. M. Edwards.

37. An Adequate Cause for Extremes of Climatic Mutations in Geological Ages, J. J. Jewett.

38. Habits of Lysiphlebus sp., C. H. Withington.

39. "Fireless Cooking," J. T. Lovewell.

40. Notes on a Kansas Beaver, taken near Lawrence, November 12, 1907, L. L. Dyche.

41. Chief Noskelzohn's Stove, Albert B. Reagan.

42. The Apache and the Wagon, Albert B. Reagan.

43. A Day in Jemez Pueblo in Harvest Time, Albert B. Reagan.

44. The Birds of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, Albert B. Reagan.

45. Notes on the Habits and Distribution of the Pocket-gopher (Geomys busarius), George A. Dean.

46. Coccidæ of Kansas, with a Short Bibliography and Food Plants, George A. Dean.

47. Concerning Some Insects Collected and Bred from Dying Elms, E. S. Tucker.

48. On the Presence of Neon in Natural Gas, H. P. Cady.

49. Quantity of Water Found in Oysters as they are Marketed, J. T. Willard.

50. Occurrence of Copper in Oysters, J. T. Willard.

51. Apparatus for Projections, A. J. Stout.

52. The Nomenclature of the Carboniferous in Kansas, E. Haworth and J. Bennett.

53. A Fossil Tusk Found in the McPherson Equus Beds, E. O. Deere. 54. The Use of a Score-card for Natural Waters, E. H. S. Bailey. 55. Preliminary Studies on the Moon, F. A. Marlatt.

56. Collecting in Arkansas, F. A. Hartman.

After the report of the treasurer the Academy listened to the reading and discussion of papers, and the first read was No. 19, by Mr. Knaus-discussed by Mr. Wooster. This paper was illustrated by photographs.

The committee on membership reported applications of the following-named persons, and recommended that they be admitted to membership:

John Bennett, geologist, State University, Lawrence.

L. A. Lowther, superintendent of schools, Emporia.

A. M. Edwards, M. D., physician, Newark, N. J.

F. A. Marlatt, machinist, Agricultural College, Manhattan.

J. E. Todd, professor geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Vance Applebaugh, student, Wesleyan University, Salina.

Edgar Thomas, teacher of biology, Emporia.

W. A. Van Varis, teacher of physics, Emporia.

H. H. Braucher, teacher, Emporia.

C. A. Nash, teacher, Emporia.

David Train, student, Lindsborg.
Julius Brandt, student, Lindsborg.

W. C. Cooke, teacher, Salina.

O. S. Groner, teacher of chemistry, Ottawa.

John Lofty, superintendent of schools, Salina.

Dr. Burton R. Rogers, veterinarian, Agricultural College, Manhattan. Howard N. Moses, M. D., physician, Salina.

J. O. Short, electrician, Salina.

Roy W. Gragg, laundryman, Bartlesville, I. T.

T. J. Headlee, professor of entomology, Manhattan.

On motion, the rules were suspended and the secretary requested to cast the ballot of the Academy for the persons above named, which was done, and they were declared duly elected and to be enrolled on payment of the usual fee.

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