CONTENTS. 



Proceedings of twenty-second annual session 3 



Notes on the occurrence of gold in Montana 5 



On the classification of the sensations of smell 7 



Notes on magnetic declination in Kansas 8 



Note on the second setting of cement 10 



A preliminary study of "hot winds" 10 



Some tests of cements manufactured in Kansas 12 



Note on the oviposition of a wood-borer 15 



A study of the albuminoids 16 



A new frame for the pocket microscope 18 



The manufacture of binding-twine 19 



Notes on the analysis of agricultural products 21 



Ammonia and nitric acid in rain-waters collected at the Agricultural College 21 



Additions to list of Kansas birds 24 



Artesian wells in Kansas, and the causes of their flow 24 



Some Kansas mineral waters 25 



Notes on three species of gophers found at Lawrence, Kansas 29 



The mode of respiration of the common salamander 31 



Characteristic sand-hill flora 32 



Experiments for the artificial dissemination of a contagious disease among chinch-bugs 34 



Who sold his wheat for $1.40? — or an examination of the value of Blake's tables 37 



Botanical notes, 1889 43 



The insulation resistance of some electric-light wires 44 



On barite and associated minerals in the concretionary rocks of eastern Kansas 45 



Some notes on the Mallophaga 46 



Meteorological summary for the year 1889 49 



The curve of mean daily temperatures at Lawrence, Kansas, for twenty-one years, 1868-1888 52 



