Sixteenth Annual Meeting. 15 



The attention of the Academy was called to the need of a geological survey, which 

 was discussed, and resolutions adopted urging it. 



Prof. Snow was continued as President, and Prof. Mudge as Vice President; Prof 

 Ked/.ie was elected Treasurer, and Mr. Joseph Savage Secretary. 



The meeting was very successful, and well attended. 



The ninth annual meeting was held November 14, L876. The feature of this meet- 

 ing was the lecture of Prof. < . Y. Riley, upon "The Rocky Mountain Locust." The 

 officers were reelected. It was resolved to hold semi-annual popular meetings of the 

 Academy. 



The evening of the second day Prof. Bardwell delivered a lecture upon ''Our Neigh- 

 hor, the Moon." 



The first semi-annual meeting was held in Leavenworth, in June, 1S77. and was ad- 

 dressed by Profs. Snow. Mudge, and others. 



The tenth annual meeting was held at Topeka. October 11, 1877, and was also char- 

 acterized by an extensive array of valuable papers. Prof. Mudge delivered a lecture 

 upon the "Value of Science," and Prof. G. E. Patrick one on the "Chemistry of the 

 Sun." 



The second semi-annual meeting was held at Kansas City, June (i. L878, as the guests 

 of the Kansas City Academy. The events of the meeting, which were exceedingly en- 

 joyable, were a lecture upon "Pocky Mountain Geology," by Prof. Mudge, and upon 

 "Steam Navigation," by Prof. Bardwell, and an excursion to and examination of mounds 

 in Platte county, Missouri. 



The eleventh annual meeting opened at Topeka, October Sth, 1878. The first even- 

 ing's lecture was by Prof. B. F. Mudge, upon "The Rocky Mountains and their Fossils," 

 and that on the second evening by Prof. D. H. Robinson, upon "The Historical Value of 

 Linguistic Study." These were given in the Baptist church. Twenty-five papers were 

 read at this meeting. Appropriate resolutions were passed upon the deaths of Profs. 

 John Fraser and F. \Y. Bardwell, which had occurred since the last meeting. Two val- 

 uable and active members were lost to the Academy. 



The twelfth annual meeting was held November 6th, 187!), at which a good pro- 

 gramme was presented, and a numerous attendance had, both of members and of the pub- 

 lic. Prof. Mudge, who had been President for a year, was reelected. He delivered an 

 interesting lecture in the evening, upon the "Mound Builders of North America." 



On t lie second day Prof. J. H. Canfield gave a lecture upon "The Relation of the 

 State to Higher Education." 



This meeting was eventful as being the last at which Prof. Mudge was present. He 

 died while in office, as its President. This lamentable event transpired upon the 21st of 

 the same month of the meeting, November, 1879, exactly four years ago this very evening, 

 making this fche anniversary of the sad event. His funeral was largely attended by the 

 members of the Academy, and none knew better than they the irreparable loss the people 

 of the State had sustained. His death was the greatest calamity the cause of science in 

 Kansas has ever experienced, for he did more for its advancement than any other person, 

 or, perhaps, all others combined. And that he was appreciated abroad as well as at home, 

 the following significant incident will illustrate. Shortly after his death, Mrs. Mudge, 

 received from Dr. C. A. White, of the United States National Museum at Washington, 

 advance sheets of their proceedings for 1879, containing descriptions of two new cretaceous 

 fossils discovered by Prof. Mudge, Gervillia Mudgeana, sp. nov., (plate 5, figs. 3 and 4,) 

 and Pteria salinensis, sp. nov., (plate •">, figs. 1 and 2.) Page 292 of tin' proceedings has this 

 foot-note : 



"While these pagesaxe passing through the press, the sad intelligence comes thai Prof. B. F. Mudge 



