FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. r 



The following public lectures were delivered : 



On the claims of the Natural Sciences, by Frank H. Snow. 



On the Geology of Kansas, by B. Y. Mudge. 



The following officers were elected : 



John Fraser, President ; B. F. Mudge and Robert J. Brown, Vice-Presidents ; 

 John D. Parker, Secretary; F. H. Snow, Treasurer; B. F. Mudge and F. H. Snow, 

 Curators. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Society was held in the Congre- 

 gational church, at Manhattan, on the 8th and 9th of October, 1872.. 



The following papers were read : 



On the Peculiarities of the Cherokee Language, by D. H. Robinson. 



On Ventilation, by Colonel William Tweeddale. 



On the Plants of Kansas, ( continued from last year ) by James H. Carruth. 



On two varieties of Limestone from Junction City, by William H. Saunders. 



On two varieties of Coal from Colorado, by William H. Saunders. 



On the Birds of Kansas, ( continued from last year) by Frank H. Snow. 



On the Geology of the Arkansas Valley, by B. F. Mudge. 



On the Relation of Light to the Quantity of Gas Consumed, by F. E. Stimpson^ 



On the Remoteness of the Final Catastrophe, by John D. Parker. 



On what is Good for an Artist, and what an Art'st is Good for, by Miss Lizzie 

 J. Williams. 



On the Sources of the English Language, by J. H. Lee. 



On the National Park, by Joseph Savage. 



A public lecture was delivered on the Agreement of the Bible 

 with Geological Science, by Rev. Charles Reynolds, D. D. 



The officers of the previous year were re-elected. 



The following commissions were confirmed for the current year: 



B. F. Mudge, Geology ; F. H. Snow and Edwin A Popenoe, Entomology ; 

 D. H. Robinson and J. H. Lee, Language ; F. W. Bardwell, Engineering ; F. E. 

 Stimpson, Physics ; John Fraser, Astronomy ; J. H. Carruth, Botany ; John Wher- 

 rell, Mineralogy ; William H Saunders, Chemistry; John D. Parker, Meteor- 

 ology. . 5 



The next annual meeting of the Society will be held at Lawrence 

 at the call of the Executive Committee. 



