MINUTES. 



Fortieth Annual Meeting, Kansas Academy of Science, 

 November 28, 29 and 30, 1907, at Emporia, Kan. 



A CCORDING to announcement, the Kansas Academy of 

 -^^ Science met at Norton Science Hall of the Normal 

 School, Emporia, and was opened at eight P. m. with the pres- 

 ident, J. A. Yates, in the chair. About twenty members were 

 present. 



The secretary, being called upon for his report, referred 

 to the proceedings of last year, published in the announce- 

 ment, and was excused from reading these minutes. 



He reported at length on the changes made in rooms for 

 the Academy in the state-house, by the Executive Council. 



The rooms now occupied are on the fourth floor, and con- 

 sist of the two northeast rooms and the adjacent corridor. 

 The latter gives abundant space for the museum, only lacking 

 sufficient light, and this deficiency we hope will be supplied. 

 The two rooms on the east make commodious quarters for 

 office and library, and on the whole we are better housed 

 than we were in the basement. The space at our command 

 is larger, and gives a chance for development till a new state 

 building will be erected to accommodate the State Historical 

 Society, the State Horticultural Society, the Goss ornitholog- 

 ical museum, and the Academy of Science. Each of these 

 departments has extensive libraries as well as display collec- 

 tions, and it is a considerable advantage to the public, when 

 it is wished to visit and inspect the museums in the state- 

 house, to have them all on the same floor. 



THE LIBRARY. 



The library continues its groM'th through exchanges, and 

 through distribution of the various publications in Washing- 

 ton. From the latter source forty-four bound volumes have 

 come to us during the year, many of them quartos and the 

 rest octavos. From the same source 614 unbound volumes, 

 pamphlets, bulletins, and circulars have been received. From 

 exchanges, during the same period, we have acquired 923 un- 

 bound volumes and pamphlets. 



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