14 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Friday Morning, November 27, 1903. 



The Academy met at the Physical Science hall at ten a. m., with 

 Doctor Bartow in the chair. 



Additional members at this session : B. F. Eyer, F. H. Snow, M. 

 L. Ward. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



The secretary's report was read, and received by vote, and accepted 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Introduction. — The Kansas Academy of Science is located in comfortable 

 quarters in the state house, at Topeka, as described in the report to the Academy 

 at its last meeting. The present Executive Council of the state appears 

 to be interested in our welfare, and continues the kind favors of the last council, 

 which gave us these rooms. An additional room has this month been given to 

 the Academy for its library and extra books. The legislature at its last session 

 placed the Academy on a permanent basis, appropriating $1000 salary for the 

 secretary and $300 for contingent expenses. This attitude of the state is very 

 encouraging for a successful State Academy. We now have the entire north 

 side of the west wing basement floor in state-house. 



Museum. — The museum of mineral industries has been arranged and much 

 valuable material added, including specimens of glass, tile, salt, Welsbach gas 

 mantles. The secretary has charge of the mineral displays at St. Louis, and ex- 

 pects at the close of that exposition to place the cases and best displays in this 

 room, which will make one of the best economic museums in the West. Eight 

 new show-cases were purchased this past year and are now in museum. 



Library, — A new bookcase, revolving bookcase, dictionary and holder have 

 been added to the library furniture equipment. 



The additions to the library during the present year have been 100 bound 

 volumes and 1000 pamphlets. Missing numbers for forty-five volumes of our 

 journals have been secured and ten new exchanges added. One hundred volumes 

 were bound in the summer and fall of 1902 and added to the library. 



The State Printing Board has recently honored a requisition for 500 volumes 

 of binding, an order equal to our requisitions for the past six years, and this 

 order will enable us to clear up our mass of loose pamphlets, which are difficult 

 to care for. Two hundred and fifty of these volumes are now at the state bindery, 

 and others will be sent near the end of the year. An effort is being made to en- 

 large our library and make it more complete, and the secretary recommends that 

 the Academy set aside a fund of $100 for new books. 



, Photographs. — The secretary has secured fifty photographs of Academy 

 members. These have been secured through repeated letters, sent in some cases 

 three or four times. We have photographs of nearly half the members now and 

 we are going after the other half ; so be prepared for another set of letters'on this 

 subject. 



Dues. — The secretary last year, with the consent and approval of the treas- 

 urer, sent out printed statements of dues unpaid, and the sum of eighty-six dol- 

 lars was collected through this office and probably twenty-five dollars was paid 

 to the treasurer direct in response to these notices. Those who failed to respond 

 to our invitation were warned twice of penalty of being dropped from our roll, 

 and this we unfortunately had to do in a number of cases. Similar notices were 

 sent this year and nineteen dollars have been collected, and the rest we hope will 

 be paid at this meeting. 



