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John D. Parker, one of the founders of the Society, were guests at the Savage home 

 during the meeting. At that meeting the Society changed its name; it became us: 

 the Kansas Academy of Science. Since then (21 years), Joseph and Mary Savage 

 have given to this Society much service and more of good will. At the eighth annual 

 meeting, Joseph Savage became secretary, and he was reelected next year. At the 

 eleventh meeting, 1879, he was chosen vice president, and to this office he was re- 

 elected the next year, which was the last meeting at which Professor Mudge presided. 

 At the thirteenth meeting, he became first vice president. It fell to his lot to be of 

 the committee to prepare resolutions of respect for the memory of John Fraser, and 

 also that of Professor Bardwell. He was also the principal worker with Prof. I. T. 

 Goodnow in procuring funds with which the Mudge monument was erected, under 

 the auspices of the Academy, at Manhattan. 



Mr. Savage also served the Academy as a member of the geological " commission," 

 when our work was divided among committees so named. 



Besides serving the Academy thus officially, he for many years took a full share 

 in the meetings, preparing and reading numerous papers, which, if not technical, as 

 some of those of his associates, were always full of information, and had a strong 

 human interest. I do not think the following is a complete list, but it will serve to 

 show that he was not an idle friend of the Academy: 



1. An Account of the Journey up the Yellowstone, with photographic illustra- 

 tions, at Manhattan. 



2. On the Bite of a Rattlesnake. 



3. On the Remains of Mastodons in Douglas County. 



4. Mounds in Southern Kansas, 1879. 



5. Sink Holes in Wabaunsee County, 1879. 



6. Concretionary Forms, 1880. 



7. Stone Implements in Trego County, 1880. 



8. The Agate Beds of Trego County, 1881. 



9. The Leavenworth Coal Mines, 1881. 



10. Report of the Committee on the Mudge Monument, then completed, 1882. 



11. Some Lightning Freaks, 1883. 



12. Observations on the Habits of Ants. 



13. The Christening of Amethyst Mountain, 1884. 



14. The Geology of Spanish Peaks, 1884. 



15. A Geological Paper, 1885. 



16. The Pink and White Terraces of New Zealand, 1886. 



17. The Fossil Bone Bed in Garden Park, 1887. 



Besides these descriptive or scientific papers, he made many little speeches at 

 our evening reunions and banquets. He had a singularly happy way of saying some- 

 thing pleasant and serious, and a short, happy laugh, when recognizing something 

 good in the work of other members, as he often did. One of these speeches the 

 writer remembers showing his grateful religious disposition. He said he often 

 thought of the superintending kindness of God in creation, preparing pleasure as 

 well as profit for man in the things of nature, taking it as a personal kindness to 

 himself when digging out some fine fossil, that God had laid up that pleasure for 

 him. If there was any jealousy in him, it was for his favorite science; he was always 

 anxious that attention should be given to it. He was as pleased with the work and 

 enthusiasm of others as with what he had done himself. 



Some years ago his health began to fail, and he was hurt by a fall from his 

 buggy. He missed several of our meetings, but was present in 1890, and at the 

 banquet responded to the toast of the "Old Members." His wife says of that 

 speech: "He spoke in a very touching and beautiful way, and I was very proud of 



