PROCEEDINGS. 



The ninth annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science convened at Topeka 

 on the 14th of November, 1876, and closed its session at 10 p. m. on the 15th. Previous 

 to the more public exercises of the Academy, held in the Senate chamber of the capitol, 

 a meeting assembled at the office of Dr. Thompson for the transaction of business. On 

 recommendation of the committee on nominations, the officers of the past year were 

 reelected, viz. : 



President — F. H. Snow. 



Vice Presidents — B. F. Mudge a,nd J. H. Carruth. 



Treasurer — R. J. Brown. 



Secretary — J. Savage. 



Several changes were made in the commissions of the Academy, among which are 

 the following: E. A. Popenoe was appointed to that of Botany, Prof. Dunbar to that of 

 Philology, Dr. Thompson to that of Meteorology, and C. K. Jones to that of Geology. 

 A new commission was added to the former list — that of Ethnology — and J. D. Parker 

 and B. F. Mudge were appointed to it. A new interest has attached itself to this latter 

 branch of study, by the discovery of a large number of mounds on the blufls opposite 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



The following articles were added to the constitution of the Academy : * 



Art. VI. There shall be a meeting held during the summer months for the purpose of hearing sci- 

 entific lectures of a popular character. 



Art. VII. These meetings shall be known as the "popular meetings" of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science, and shall be held in such places as may be selected at the annual meeting. 



Art. VIII. Every member is expected to present some fact for the benefit of science, to be kept as 

 a record, and to appear in the regular proceedings. 



Resolved, That Leavenworth be selected as the place for the first popular meeting, to be held in 

 June, 1877, and that H. M. Alter, W. S. Burke and James Wilson be appointed as committee on local 

 arrangements. 



Resolved, That Professors Mudge, Kedzie and Snow be appointed lecturers for that meeting. 



It was further 



Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to take into consideration the need of additional 

 room for the accommodation of the cabinet of the Society, with power to confer with the Kansas His- 

 torical Society, Topeka, and the State Board of Agriculture. 



B. F. Mudge, Dr. Thompson and E. A. Popenoe were chosen upon this committee. 



A resolution recommending a geological survey of the State was presented, and car- 

 ried with much favor by the Academy. The products of our coal mines have already 

 taken a position in the material prosperity of our State almost beyond computation : a 

 careful survey of these formations would tend to fix more definitely the boundary line 

 between our fertile coal measures and those that are barren. 



Prof. C. V. Riley, of St. Louis, gave the opening lecture of the session, upon "The 

 Locust Problem.'" 



