MINUTES. 



Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting, Kansas Academy of Science, 

 December 31, 1902, and January 1 and 2, 1903. 



ToPEKA, Kan., December 31, 1902. 

 T^HE Kansas Academy of Science met for the thirty-fifth annual 

 -^ meeting at Topeka. The sessions were held in the new museum 

 room of the Academy, in the state-house. 



The Academy was called to order by President Willard at 7:30 

 p. M., December 31, 1902. 



The following members were present at the opening session : E. 

 H. S. Bailey, Edw. Bartow, Edw. Bumgardner, F. W. Bushong, J. C. 

 Cooper, L. L. Dyche, G. P. Grimsley, A. W. Jones, D. E. Lantz, J. 

 T. Lovewell, J. R. Mead, L. E. Sayre, B. B. Smyth, E. G. Smyth, L. 

 H. Shattuck, A, J. Smith, C. H. Sternberg, J. T. Willard, L. C. 

 Wooster, and J. A. Yates. 



The secretary's report was read and accepted. It was as follows : 

 secretary's report. 



The secretary announces with pleasure that the Executive Council of the 

 state-house has assigned permanent quarters to the Academy. These consist of 

 a tile-floor museum room sixty-five by thirty feet, an office-room adjoining, in 

 which the library is located. These rooms have been newly frescoed and painted, 

 and cases have been provided for the library and collections. 



A resolution of the Academy was adopted December 29, 1900, which urged- 

 "at as early a period as possible, the establishment and maintenance by the 

 Academy of an economic museum of the industrial products of the state for 

 popular instruction," . . . and held that "the collection for the museum of 

 specimens other than those having a distinct industrial value should be for the 

 present discouraged." 



In accordance with this resolution, the secretary has installed in the new 

 museum collections representing the mineral industries of Kansas. This has 

 been made as complete as possible in the short time since the museum room was 

 assigned to the Academy. This will be increased during the coming year, and 

 promises have been made by a number of our mining companies to place fine 

 and representative exhibits in our room. 



The birds and animals formerly stored in this room have been placed, by order 

 of the executive council, in the east wing of the building, in a room adjoining 

 the Gos3 ornithological collection, all under the care of B. B. Smyth. 



Library. — The Academy library is a valuable reference library for the state, 

 and probably represents one of our best scientific libraries. We have on our ex- 

 change list a number of societies and individuals to whom we send our Transac- 

 tions and receive nothing in return, and this, too, with societies which publish 

 journals and reports. From some of our exchanges these reports come very ir- 



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