FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



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research in our State, do hereby invite all persons in the State interested in natural 

 science to meet at Topeka on the first Tuesday of September "next, at 3 P. M., at 

 the college building, for the purpose of organizing a State Natural History 

 Society. 



John Fraser, G. F. Chapin, 



D. H. Robinson, J. H. Carruth, 



B. F. MuDGE, R. D. Parker, 



J. A. Banfield, Jeff. Robinson, 



J. S. HOUGHAM, 



J. D. Parker, 

 R. a. Barker, 

 D. Brockwav, 



Peter McVicar, 

 F. H. Snow, 

 J. S. Whitman, 

 Richard Cordley, 

 J. R. Swallow." 



Pursuant to this call, a meeting of the naturalists of the State 

 was held in Lincoln College, Topeka, Kansas, September 1st, 1868. 

 On mature deliberation and thorough discussion, an organization 

 w'as effected under the name of the Kansas Natural History Society. 



At the third annual meeting of the Society, held in the University 

 building at Lawrence, on the 5th and 6th of September, 1870, Pres- 

 ident John Fraser suggested that the scope of the Society be en- 

 larged to comprehend the whole field of science within the borders 

 of the State. 



On motion, Messrs. John Fraser, F. H. Snow, D. H. Robinson, 

 Frederick VV. Bardwell and John D. Parker, having been appointed 

 a committee on enlargement of the scope of the Society, made the 

 following report, which was adopted : 



Whereas, The unexpected success of this young Society, as at present or- 

 ganized, has awakened in many the desire to have its scope enlarged so as to em- 

 brace in its membership observers and investigators in other lines of scientific 

 inquiry ; and, 



Whereas, It appears to us that such a change in our organization is calcu 

 lated to promote the interests of science, and thereby the higher interests of our 

 State ; therefore, 



Resolved, That the name and scope of our Society be so changed as to include 

 every line of scientific exploration and observation conducted by residents within 

 our State. 



At the fourth annual meeting, held in the rooms of the Board of 

 Education at Leavenworth, on the 25th and 26th of Octob'er, 187 1, 

 the Constitution and By-Laws were so amended as to embrace in the 

 membership of the Society observers and investigators in every line 

 of scientific inquiry; and the name of the Society \vas changed from 

 the Kansas Natural History Society to the Kansas Academy of 

 Science. 



