TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAG3 



Address of retiring President 4 



Absorption spectra, A new method of studying 98 



Age of Kansas, The 129 



A new Kansas mineral, Note on 25 



Archaeological notes 30 



Birds new to the fauna of Kansas, and rare in the State 26 



Botanical addenda for 1883-84 142 



Breeding habits of the American eared Grebes, Observations of the 31 



Christening Amethyst Mountain 105 



Class-room experiment on ebullition, A 27 



Coal-oil legislation 30 



Coleoptera, Additions to Kansas list of, in 1883 and 1S84 57 



Color-blindness, Statistics on, in the University of Kansas 95 



Composition of some culinary utensils 29 



Contribution to the flora of Kansas, A 115 



Contributions to a knowledge of the Hemiptera-fauna of Kansas 62 



Dacotah, In the 109 



Delicacy of the sense of smell, Some special tests in regard to the 100 



Distribution of saccharine substances in the stem of Sorghum vulgare 34 



Experiments upon super-heated liquids and upon the super-saturation of vapors 91 



Fossil jaw of bison from the Pliocene of Norton county, Notes on 98 



Geology of Norton county, Preliminary report on 17 



Geology of the Spanish Peaks, Notes on the 113 



Herpetology of Kansas, Second contribution to the, with observations on the Kansas fauna 136 



Is a geological survey of the State a necessity? i:i 



Is the rainfall of Kansas increasing? 101 



Kansas fishes, Preliminary list of. 69 



Kansas mineral waters, Notes on some 114 



Kansas parasitic fungi, together with their host-plants, A partial list of 79 



Last submersion and emergence of southeastern Kansas from the Carboniferous seas 106 



Lepidoptera and < loleoptera collected in New Mexico, Lists of 65 



Meteorological summary for 1883 43 



Meteorological summary for 1884 124 



Nesting habits of the Yellow-throated Vireo 33 



November meteors, Observations of 103 



< Ictahedral Union ite 25 



c Origin and maturation of the ovum in Porcellio, Preliminary note on the l4o 



Phosphorescence of chlorophane from 1 'ike's Peak 104 



Preparatory stages of Hyperchiria zephyria < rrote 61 



Report of the < om mission on i hemistry, upon the year's progress 87 



Salt-marsh Coleoptera Ci4 



Sixteenth annual meeting :; 



Seventeenth annual meeting 4;i 



Some lightning freaks in 1883 41 



Tea analysis, Notes on 42 



Testing of burning-fluids 39 



Unionidae collected in Kansas rivers, List of. 7s 



Ctilization of mineral waters, The 28 



Water of the Fort Scott artesian well, The 96 



