MINUTES, 



Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, Kansas Academy of Science, 

 December 30 and 31, 1901, and January 1, 1902. 



loLA, Kan., December 30, 1901. 

 npHE Kansas Academy of Science assembled in thirty-fourth an- 

 ^ nual meeting, at lola, in the high-school auditorium, and was 

 called to order at 7:30 o'clock p. m., by the president, Ephraim Miller. 



The minutes of the adjourned session of January 25, 1901, held in 

 Representative hall, Topeka, were read by the secretary and declared 

 approved. 



The following members were present at the opening session : Ed- 

 ward Bartow, F. F. Crevecoeur, L. L. Dyche, Warren Knaus, D. E. 

 Lantz, J. T. Lovewell, D. F. McFarland, J. R. Mead, Grace Meeker, 

 Ephraim Miller, L. N. Morscher, L. E. Sayre, A. J. Smith, B. B. 

 Smyth, M. L. Ward, J. T. Willard. 



The president appointed the following committees : 



On program : D. E. Lantz, Warren Knaus, and B. B. Smyth. 



On membership : L, E. Sayre, J. T. Willard, and J. R. Mead. 



Baxter McClain, Esq., of the city of lola, welcomed the Academy 

 to the city in a short address, and President Miller responded infor- 

 mally for the Academy. 



The committee on membership recommended the following persons 

 for membership in the Academy : Elmer P. Monahan, Baldwin ; F. 

 D. Barker, Ottawa ; Miss Teresa Stevenson, Ottawa ; A. O. Garrett, 

 Fort Scott: Willis E. Henderson, lola; Samuel L. Sargent, Wichita; 

 Leon W. Hartman, Manhattan. Also, for reinstatement: Geo. H. 

 Failyer, Manhattan ; Chas. H. Sternberg, Lawrence. 



On motion, the secretary was instructed to cast the ballot of the 

 Academy for these persons, and they were duly declared elected 

 members. 



The committee on program reported, and the reading of papers 

 was then taken up. 



1. Wild animals I have known in Sedgwick county, by J. R. Mead. 



2. The black squirrej in Kansas, by Elmer P. Monahan. 



3. Notes on the trees, shrubs and vines in the southern part of the 

 Cherokee Nation, by Chas. N. Goidd. (Read by the secretary.) 



4. The material versus the immaterial in medicine, by L. E. Sayre. 

 After announcements by President Miller, the Academy adjourned, 



to meet at nine a. m., December 31. 



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