CONTENTS. 5 



VI. Necrology: 



Dr. Peter McVicar 435 



S. A. Baldwin 437 



Mrs. Mary E. Mudge 439 



VII. Appendix: 



Accessions to the Academy Library, 1903 and 1904 443 



Advertisement of Volumes issued by the Academy 454 



Announcements by the Secretary 455 



Index to Volume XIX ( 1905) 457 



LIST OF PLATES. 



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I. — Frontispiece — State Capitol, at Topeka. 



^'^II. — Kansas Academy of Science Office and Library 16 



III. — Kansas Academy of Science Museum, 1903 24 



> IV. — Kansas Academy of Science Museum, 1905 32 



"'^V. — Kansas Academy of Science Mueeum, 1905 40 



VI. — An Autographic Recording Instrument for Tension Tests 80 



VII. — An Autographic Recording Instrument for Tension Tests 88 



VIII. — First Camp in Patagonia of University of Kansas Expedition 104 



IX. — Cliffs on Atlantic Coast of Patagonia 104 



''X.— Bluffs of Rio Gallegos, Patagonia, at Low Tide 112 



"^XI. — Bluffs of Rio Gallegos, Patagonia, at High Tide 112 



XII.— Petrified Tree Trunkin Jackson County 120 



^ XIII. — Entrance to Gypsum Mine at Grand Rapids, Mich 128 



■ XIV.— Alabastine Plaster Company's Gypsum Quarry 136 



■ XV. — Mentor Yo^%\\^ — TurrlteUa helvederei Cragin 144 



XVI. — Mentor ¥oBs,i\B — Trigonia emoryl Conrad 152 



XVII. — Mentor ¥oBe\\B—Protocardia salinaensis Meek 152 



XVIII. — Protostega gigas Cope 160 



■ XIX. — Protostega gigas Cope 160 



' XX. — Entrance to Mines and Metallurgy Palace, St. Louis, 1904 168 



"" XXI.— Kansas Mineral Exhibit at St. Louis, 1904 176 



^ XXII.— Kansas Mineral Exhibit at St. Louie, 1904 184 



" XXIII.— Map showing Area of Reading Blue Limestone 154 



• XXIV.— Map of Alfalfa Field, showing Location of Ant Mounds 192 



•" XXV.— Ant Mound (No. 7 of table), Wallace, Kan 200 



^' XXVI.— Vertical Section of Ant Mound (No. 7 of table), Wallace, Kan. . . 208 



•XXVII.— Ant Mound (No. 1 of table), Wallace, Kan 216 



XXVIII.— Vertical Section of Ant Mound at Hays City, Kan 324 



" XXIX.— Kansas Spiders 328 



* XXX.— Peate Telescope, at Kansas Wesleyan University 360 



^ XXXI.— Dr. Peter McVicar 432 



• XXXIL— S. A. Baldwin 436 



^XXXIII.— Mrs. Mary E. Mudge 440 



