CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. 



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Present and Past Officers of the Academy 2 



Membership of the Academy January 1, 1908 5 



Secretary's Report, 1907 10 



Minutes of Fortieth Annual Meeting 13 



Historical Sketch and Constitution 22 



ADDRESS AND PAPERS. 



I.— President's Address, 1906: 



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

 A. Yates 31 



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 57 



Fireless Cooking. J. T. Lovewell 60 



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



land 64 



Sanitary Water Analysis. E. H. S. Bailey 66 



III.— Geological Papers: 



The Nomenclature of Kansas Coal Measures Employed by the 



Kansas State Geological Survey. E. Havs^orth 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. . Ill 

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



E. O. Deere 115 



IV. — Biological Papers : 



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 130 



Habits of Lysiphlebus sp. C. H. Withington 138 



Tuberculosis. B. F. Rogers 141 



Coleoptera of New Mexico. W. Knaus 152 



A New Species of Campostoma. F. F: Crevecoeur 155 



Concerning Some Insects Collected and Bred from Dead and 



Dying Elm. E. S. Tucker 158 



Animals, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Rosebud Indian 



Reservation, South Dakota. A. B. Reagan 163 



A Kansas Beaver. L. L. Dyche 165 



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