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The Academy is now installed in the east wing of the capitol 

 building, at Topeka, in rooms on the fourth floor. It has two 

 connecting rooms, used for the office and library, and in the 

 adjacent corridor a museum. 



The museum has been greatly increased by the gift of the 

 state mineral display erected at the St. Louis Exposition, and 

 given suitable cases to hold this large amount of material. It 

 thus has the finest economic collection of the Kansas mineral 

 industries in the state — an exhibit which received two gold 

 medals, twenty-two silver medals, and fourteen bronze medals. 



This sketch shows that Kansas was early to recognize the 

 importance of science in building up a state, and the Academy 

 has long since justified the expectations of its early founders. 

 It has contributed as a body and through individual members 

 to the discovery and development of our resources. The state 

 coal mines at Leavenworth is an instance of one of the con- 

 tributions of the late Professor Mudge, one of our Academy's 

 founders. We do not often think of the wonderful mineral 

 resources of Kansas, but our clays and shales, no less than 

 coal, oil and gas, are assets that must be counted. Science 

 must be coupled with toil and these natural resources will 

 bring no less profit than corn, wheat, and alfalfa now furnish. 

 It has come- to be seen that farming is applied science, and 

 there is no department of industry in the shop or on the farm 

 where the teaching of the schools fails to bring good returns. 

 The Academy is a bond of union between scientific workers 

 whether in or out of the schools. Such institutions as our 

 Academy are recognized as indispensable in all our progressive 

 states. They fill a place in correlating and binding together 

 our other educational agencies. The leading scientific publica- 

 tions of the world are on our list of exchanges and are con- 

 stantly increasing the valuable resources of our state library. 



