KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Secretary — E. A. Popenoe, of Manhattan. 



Treasurer — R. J. Brown, of Leavenworth. 



The commissions for the ensuing year were filled as follows : 



Geology — O. H. St. John, Joseph Savage, and Robert Gillham. 



Mineralogy — J. C. Cooper, E. H. Chandler, G. E. Patrick, G. H. Failyer, 

 and George S. Chase. 



Chemistry— J. T. Lovewell, G. H. Failyer, H. E. Sadler, G. E. Patrick, 

 and R. J. Brown. 



Physics — J. T. Lovewell, L. A. Thomas, and I. D. Graham. 



Meteorology — F. H. Snow, J. T. Lovewell, G. H. Failyer, H. R. Hilton, 

 and J. D. Parker. 



Astronomy and Mathematics — H. S. S. Smith, J. T. Lovewell, — Miller, 

 and J. Lee Knight. 



Botany— i. H. Carruth, E. N. Plank, and B. B. Smyth. 



Zoology : 



Entomology — E. A. Popenoe, F. H. Snow, and T. B. Ashton. 

 Ornithology — F. H. Snow, N. S. Goss, and C. P. Blachly. 

 Ichthyology — D. B. Long and F. H. Snow. 

 Herpetology — F. W. Cragin, F. H. Snow, and Miss Annie E. Mozley. 



Anthropology— ¥. G. Adams, E. P. West, A. H. Thompson, G. H. Fail- 

 yer, and J. D. Parker. 



Philology — Geo. M. Stearns, D. H. Robinson, and Geo. T. Fairchild. 



Board of Curators — J. T. Lovewell, Orestes H. St. John, F. H. Snow, and 

 E. A. Popenoe. 



Publication Committee — J. T. Lovewell, J. K. Hudson, and E. A. Popenoe. 



RESOLUTIONS. ^ 



The committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions upon the deceased 

 members of the Academy of Science submitted the following: 



Whereas, The following members of this Academy have been removed by death since 

 our last annual meeting: Professor Benjamin F. Mudge, of Manhattan, for many years 

 State Geologist, and our honored President at the time of his death ; Professor William 

 K. Kedzie, formerly occupying the chair of Chemistry at the State Agricultural College, 

 for several years Chemist to the State Board of Agriculture, and an active member of 

 this Academy, even after his removal to Oberlin College, Ohio ; and George P. Cooper^ 

 of Topeka, an enthusiastic and promising young entomologist, well known to Eastern 

 specialists as a successful collector of rare Western coleoptera — therefore. 



Resolved, That, by the death of these members, the Academy has sustained an irre- 

 parable loss. 



Resolved, That the sympathy of the members of this Academy is hereby extended to 

 the families of the deceased in their great bereavement. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be entered upon the minutes of this 

 Academy. (Signed) F. H. Snow, 



J. D. Parker, 

 J. H. Carruth. 



