Fortij-,^i.vth Ainnial Meeting. 19 



Membership Committee reports two names. Motion made 

 to accept report and that the secretary- be instructed to cast 

 a ballot for the new members. The secretary reported ballot 

 cast and new members duly elected. 



L. C. Wooster raises a question as to those who do not pay 

 their membership dues. 



Secretary Lovewell: All those who have not paid tlieii' dues have 

 been and will be notified. Some pay and some do not pay. In regard to 

 that matter I will say that the dues are payable in advance at the begin- 

 ning of each year, but it has been the custom recently for a good many to 

 postpone payment of dues until the end of the year. I think that is the 

 practice of the majority at this time. There is a ruling under which I 

 do not send out the Transactions to those who have not paid. The mem- 

 bers of the Academy not paying their dues will not receive a copy of the 

 repoi'ts. The paper-covered reports were sent to all members, but the 

 cloth-covered volumes will not be sent to those who have not paid their 

 ilues. There is another ruling in regard to the proceedings of the annual 

 meeting, and that is that abstracts be presented of all papers, but that 

 rule has not been followed. 



L. E. Sayre moved that the action of the secretary be ap- 

 proved. 



Seconded. Carried. 



Paper 23, Vocational Education in Kansas, by P. F. Walker, 

 School of Engineering, University of Kansas. 



Discussion omitted because of lack of time. 



Paper 38, The Preservation of the Rocky Mountain Sheep, 

 by Mr. Walworth. 



Paper 21, Progress in Power Development in the Last Dec- 

 ade, by F. E. Sibley, Lawrence. 



Mr. Sibley concluded his paper by stating: "It is not a 

 question of what shall we do for power, but will we have brains 

 enough to develop the power we have. 



Paper 19, "Witching" for Water and Other Substances, by 

 •I. T. Lovewell, Topeka. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Lovewell: There has been considerable investigation made and 

 t'.e conclusion has been that when the experiments were properly con- 

 ducted there was nothing to warrant us to believe that there was any 

 '.ivination to locate water. The experiment shows that people are pre- 

 disposed to accept things as proved which are not proved, which are 

 really mere chance. Some claim that the method will not answer unless 

 there is a stream of water, not merely the water in the strata. If the 

 water has an affinity for the twig, how about snow? It is claimed that 

 it applies just as well then as at any time. But the question is, does it 



