CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME.

Present and Past Officers of the Academy.

Membership of the Academy January 1, 1908.

Secretary's Report, 1907.

Minutes of Fortieth Annual Meeting..

Historical Sketch and Constitution....

ADDRESS AND PAPERS.

I.-PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS, 1906:

The Value of the Work of the Scientist to Humanity. James

A. Yates....

II. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PAPERS:

Gastric Ferments. C. F. Menninger....

49

Composition of the Gas from Cottonwood Trees. F. W. Bushong, 53

The Relation of Public Health to the Quality of Medicines. L.

E. Sayre .....

54

Percentage of an Extractive as a Means of Identification and

Analysis of Drugs and Spices. L. E. Sayre.....

Fireless Cooking. J. T. Lovewell.

Neon and Argon in Natural Gas. H. P. Cady and D. F. McFar-

land......

Sanitary Water Analysis. E. H. S. Bailey.

III. GEOLOGICAL PAPERS:

The Nomenclature of Kansas Coal Measures Employed by the

Kansas State Geological Survey. E. Haworth and J. Bennett, 71

Summary of Glacial Literature Relating to Glacial Deposits.

A. B. Reagan .....

86

My Expedition to the Kansas Chalk for 1907. C. H. Sternberg.. 111

A Fossil Tusk Found in the Equus Beds of McPherson County.

E. O. Deere..

IV. — BIOLOGICAL PAPERS:

115

Antiquity of Man's Body-building Instincts. L. C. Wooster... 121

Some Observations on the Food Habits of the Blue Jay.

(Cyanocitta cristatus.) L. L. Dyche.

Habits of Lysiphlebus sp. C. H. Withington.

130

138

Animals, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Rosebud Indian

Reservation, South Dakota. A. B. Reagan

A Kansas Beaver. L. L. Dyche

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Some Sea Shells from La Push Wash. A. B. Reagan...
Occurrence of Podagrion Mantis in the Eggs of the Common

168

Mantis. L. R. C. Smyth....

178

Notes on Collecting Cicindelidæ. E. G. Smyth....

180

V. - MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS:

Man Abnormal. J. M. McWharf....

Anthropology as a Science. A. H. Thompson

Sketches of Indian Life and Character. A. B. Reagan..

1. Chief Noskelzohn's Stove.

2. A Day in Jemez Pueblo, N. M.

3. The Apache and the Wagon.

4. The Election of the Indian Governor at Jemez, N. M.
5. The Apache and the Camera.

Collecting in Arkansas. F. A. Hartman
The Buried City of the Panhandle. T. L. Eyerly..
Scientific Falacies and Frauds. W. F. Hoyt...
Harmonic Forms (second paper). B. B. Smyth..
Preliminary Studies on the Moon. F. A. Marlatt..
Heredity in Stock Breeding. I. D. Graham

VI. NECROLOGY:

D. M. Valentine, LL. D.

VII. APPENDIX:

Announcements.

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