KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



THE THIETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Academy was held at Topeka, No- 

 vember 11th, 12th, and the forenoon of November 13th, 1880. 



The popular lecture of the evening of the 11th was delivered by President 

 George T. Fairchild, of the State Agricultural College, whose subject was, 

 " Science in Every-day Life." 



The lecture of the following evening was by Prof J. T. Lovewell, of Wash- 

 burn College, Topeka, upon "Science in Schools." This lecture was followed 

 by a paper by Col. T. L. Case, of Kansas City, describing the "Ruins of the 

 City of Pecos, New Mexico." 



The sessions of Friday, and the forenoon of Saturday, were devoted to the 

 programme given below : 



The Fossils of the Judith River Group — Chas. Sternberg, 



Description of the North American Species of Conops — Dr. S. W. Williston. 



Glacial Scratches — Dr. W. S. Newlon. 



Tornadoes of May 30, 1879— Prof. J. D. Parker. 



Fragments of Pottery from the Upper Solomon — Prof. D. C. Tillotson. 



Artificial Propagation of Food Fishes — Hon. D. B. Long. 



Notes on the Botany of Central Kansas — B. B. Smyth. 



Douglas County Additions to the List of Kansas Coleoptera — Prof. F. H. Snow. 



Preliminary List of the Reptiles of Kansas — Frank W. Cragin. 



Traces of the Aborigines in Riley County — Prof. G. H. Failyer. 



The Burlington Gravel Beds — Robert Gillham. 



Additions to the List of Kansas Lepidoptera — Prof F. H. Snow. 



Memorial of Prof. B. F. Mudge — Prof. J. D. Parker. 



Concretionary Forms — Joseph Savage. 



Weather Observations in Kansas — Prof. J. T. Lovewell. 



The Feldspar Group of Minerals — E. H. Chandler. 



The Last New Kansas Bird — Prof. F. H. Snow. 



The Igneous Rocks of Kansas — Prof. Robert Hay. 



Color-Blindness — Dr. John Fee. 



Irrigation — Hon. F. G. Adams. 



The Ornithology of Riley County — Dr. C. P. Blachly. 



The Rainfall in its Relations to Kansas Farming — H. E. Hilton. 



Some New Experiments Lately Exhibited in Boston — Prof. J. T. Lovewell. 



Preliminary List of Kansas Hymenoptera — Prof. F. H. Snow. 



Stone Implements Found in Trego County — Joseph Savage. 



On the Skeleton of an Elephant Found Near Manhattan — Prof. Geo. H. Failyer. 



Science Teaching in Common Schools — Hon. F. G. Adams. 



A New Form of Pinch-cock — Prof. H. E. Sadler. 



Recent Addition to the List of Kansas Plants — Prof. J. H. Carruth. 



Mining in New Mexico and Colorado — J. C. Cooper, Esq. 



The Coleoptera Collected in Santa F^ Caiion, August, 1880, with Descriptions of New 

 Species by Drs. LeConte and Horn — Prof. F. H. Snow. 



Officers for the year 1881 were elected as follows: 



President — J. T. Lovewell, of Topeka. 



Vice Presidents — Joseph Savage and James H. Carruth, of Lawrence. 



