THIRTY- SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. 17 



life for publication in the Transactions ; also Dr. Peter Mc Vicar, and 

 recommended that the secretary, G. P. Grimsley, prepare a sketch of 

 his life for the Academy Transactions. 



Moved and voted the report be accepted and the recommendations 

 be adopted. 



Committee on membership reported the following names : L. O. 

 Adams, Lawrence; F. H. Ayres, Kansas City, Mo.; J. O. Hamilton,* 

 Manhattan ; J. Lofty, Salina ; Walter E. Matthewson,* Manhattan ; E. 

 C. McClung, Lawrence ; D. F. McFarland,* Lawrence ; Chas. H. Pope- 

 noe, Manhattan ; H. F. Roberts,* Manhattan ; Roscoe H. Shaw,* Man- 

 hattan — ten, or thirty-nine in all. 



Moved and voted report be accepted, and that the secretary cast the 

 ballot for these persons. 



The reading of papers was resumed : 



12. Recent advances in astronomy, by W. F. Hoyt. 



13. The preparation of lithological slides, by A. J. Smith. 



14. Additions to the list of Kansas Coleoptera for 1903, by War- 

 ren Knaus. 



15. Some miscellaneous notes on geology of Kansas, by L. C. 

 Wooster. 



16. What rights have educational institutions for duty-free im- 

 portations? by E. H. S. Bailey. 



17. Preliminary list of Kansas spiders, by Theo. H. Scheffer, 



18. Observations on mirages, by B, B. Smyth. 



19. Notes on the birds of Kansas, by F. H. Snow. 



20. The action of ethyl-chlorosulfonate upon aniline, by F. W. 

 Bushong. 



21. Analysis of salt water from Atchison coal-mine, by E. B. Knerr. 



22. Geological effects of Kansas river flood of 1903, by Erasmus 

 Haworth. 



23. Notes on the archaeology of Butler county, b}^ J. R. Mead. 

 21. July 1 flora of Grayback, Colo., by H. J. Harnly. 



Moved and voted that, in absence of the authors and the papers, 

 the last five papers above be read by title and referred to committee 

 on publication when the papers should be presented. 



25. Protostega gigas and other Cretaceous reptiles and fishes of 

 the Kansas chalk, by Chas. H. Sternberg. 



The Academy adjourned at six p. m., to meet at eight p. m. 



* Present at meeting. 

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