REPORTS OP COMMITTEES • 17 



REPORT OF PROFESSOR TODD. 



I hereby report on my pleasant duty as delegate of the Iowa Academy 

 of Science to the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Kansas Academy 

 of Science, held at Lawrence, March 15 and 16. 



The weather was auspicious and the exercises were well attended. 

 Those celebrating the Anniversary were mainly on the 15th. The 

 morning was given to President Agrellus's address, A Half Century 

 of Bacteriology, to the greetings and congratulations from sister or- 

 ganizations and to a Symposium, Fifty Years of Scientific Develop- 

 ment in Kansas, according to the program. 



The chief attraction of the afternoon was the Lecture by Dr. S. W. 

 Wllliston of The University of Chicago, on The Growth of Science 

 during the Last Half Century. It was specially enjoyed because of its 

 frequent references to Kansas where the Doctor has spent many fruit- 

 ful years both as a student and as a university professor. 



The evening was devoted to a banquet and post-prandial speeches 

 with Dr. E. H. S. Bailey as toast-master. Many interesting reminis- 

 cences were told of the founders of the Academy, particularly of 

 Professor Mudge, Chancellor Snow and Mr. James Savage, by their 

 former students and relatives. Stories of scientific trips when hostile 

 Indians were abroad, of scientific zeal inspired by a friendly hint of 

 the master, or of ever open hospitality to Government explorers of 

 early days, all these helped to explain why and how Kansas Academy 

 has reached its jubilee so much sooner than those of some older States. 



The home of the Academy has been recently moved from Topeka to 

 Lawrence, where it expects to have commodious quarters in the Ad- 

 ministration Building of the University, which Is now in process of 

 erection. 



All of which is very respectfully submitted, J. E. Todd, 



Delegate. 



THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Your committee would heartily commend the report of the Secretary 

 for its clearness and completeness. 



In the matters of policy brought to the attention of the Academy by 

 the report we would recommend: 



1. That papers by others than members may be presented, as has 

 been the custom of the Academy, on Introduction by a Fellow of the 

 Academy. Papers by others than members are to be published in the 

 Proceedings only on recommendation of the Executive Committee. 



2. (a) That the Secretary be added to the committee on "Annual 

 dues of Corresponding Fellows," that the committee be asked to carry 

 out the instructions of the last meeting of the Academy. 



(b) That Corresponding Fellows will be carried on our list if 

 they so desire; the payment of annual dues to be required of those who 

 are to receive the publications of the Academy. 



3. That members in National Service shall be carried "in good 

 standing" without payment of dues throughout the duration of their 

 National Service. Frank F. Almy, 



2 J. E. Guthrie. 



