18 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Friday Evening, November 27, 1908. 

 The Academy met in Physical Science hall, at 8 : 15 p. m., with 

 Pres. J. 0. Cooper in the chair. 

 The following papers were read : 



26. Notes on the culture of wild flowers, by H. W. Baker. 



27. Well borings at Wamego and Smoky Hill, by J. T. Lovewell. 



28. The results of an entomological collecting expedition to the 

 Arizona desert, by F. H. Snow. 



It was moved and voted the next meeting of the Academy should 

 be held at Topeka ; also voted the time of meeting be left to the ex- 

 ecutive committee. 



Pres. J. C. Cooper then delivered his address on "Oxygen in its 

 Relation to Mineralogy." After the president's address, the mem- 

 bers and friends of the Academy were tendered a most pleasant re- 

 ception, given by the faculty of the Agricultural College in the 

 Women's Gymnasium building. 



Saturday Morning, November 28, 1903. 



The Academy met in Physical Science hall, at 8 : 45 A. m., with 

 Pres. J. C. Cooper in the chair. 



The minutes of the three preceding sessions were read and ap- 

 proved. 



Reading of papers was resumed : 



29. The fauna of the Mentor (outline only given), by A. W. Jones. 



30. Notes on the caves of Cuba, by J. W. Beede. (Read by 

 A. W. Jones.) 



31. Notes on fasciation, by Lumina C. Riddle. 



32. The Buprestidse and Scarabeidse of Kansas, by W. Knaus. 



33. Notes on the mound-building prairie ant, by Geo. A. Dean. 



34. Two new diseases of economic plants, by Leslie F. Paull. 



35. Life-history of Microhembex monodonia, by Lumina C. Riddle. 



36. Notes on collecting Cicindelidse, by D. E. Lantz. 



37. Notes on collecting Cicindelidas, by Eugene Smyth. 



38. The Coleoptera of New Mexico, II, by Warren Knaus. 



A new auditing committee — D. E, Lantz and W. F. Hoyt — was 

 appointed, as Professor Ward, already appointed, was absent. 



39. Progress in production of high-protein corn, by J. T. Willard 

 and R. H. Shaw. 



40. On the action of hydrogen chloride on certain hydrous chlo- 

 rides, by F. M. McClenahan. 



4L Harmonic cubes and other solid forms, by B. B. Smyth. 



42. The salt industry in Kansas, by E. H. S. Bailey. 



43. Atchison coal-mines, by E. B. Knerr. 



44. Life of a fossil hunter, by Chas. H. Sternberg. 



