10 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Tuesday Morning, December 31, 1901. 



The Academy was called to order at 9:30 o'clock. 



Minutes of the Monday evening session were read and approved. 



President Miller appointed the following additional committees : 



On nominations : J. T. Lovewell, Edw. Bartow, and A. J. Smith. 



On necrology : Warren Knaus and B. B. Smyth. 



On resolutions: M. L. Ward, L. L. Dyche, and J. R. Mead. 



On place of meeting : J. T. Willard, G. H. Failyer, and Edw. Bartow. 



Notice of an additional amendment to the constitution was given 

 by Warren Knaus. The word "librarian" was to be stricken out of 

 section 3. 



The reading of papers was then continued : 



5. Additions to the list of Kansas Coleoptera for 1901, by Warren 

 Knaus. 



(5. Collecting Coleoptera in Utah and Wyoming, by Warren Knaus. 



7. Additions to the list of the Hemipterous fauna of Kansas, by 

 F. F. Crevecoeur. 



8. Remarks on habits of Cynomys ludovicianus, by D. E. Lantz. 



9. On the still used for the purpose of obtaining distilled water 

 for the University of Kansas, with some tests on the quality of the 

 product, by E. H. S. Bailey. (Read by Edw. Bartow, in the absence 

 of the author.) 



10. Gold in Kansas shales, by J. T. Lovewell. 



11. The nutritive value pf bufPalo-grass, by J. T. Willard.. 



12. On the use of a solution of alum as a standard acid in aci- 

 dimetry, by H. P. Cady. (Read by title.) 



13. Reactions between basic and acid amides in liquid ammonia, 

 by E, C. Franklin and O. F. Stafford. ( Read by title.) 



14. Some pure sandstone waters, by E. H. S. Bailey. (Read by 

 D. F. McFarland, in the absence of the author.) 



On motion, the Academy adjourned, to meet at four p. m. 



Tuesday Afternoon, December 31, 1901. 



At 1: 15 o'clock, through the courtesy of the lola Commercial Club, 

 the members of the Academy enjoyed a trip to Gas City, Lanyonville, 

 and La Harpe, on the new electric railway. Upon their return to 

 Tola they were shown through the water- works and the large smelter 

 of the Lanyon Zinc Company. Two trips were also conducted to the 

 lola Cement Works near the city. 



The Academy was called to order at 4:30 o'clock. 



The committee on membership recommended the following persons 

 for active membershij) : Jesse B. Norton, Manhattan ; Herbert F. 

 Roberts, Manhattan ; R. S. Sherwin, Norman, Okla. The committee 

 also recommended for life membership the following persons, after 



