18 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, 



The committee on membership recommended the following per- 

 sons for membership, and it was so voted : Miss Edith A. Mclntyre, 

 Manhattan ; H. I. Woods, Topeka ; F. B. Isely, Wichita ; Pierce Lar- 

 kin (not present), Norman, Okla. 



The committee further recommended, and the Academy elected, 

 the following persons as life members, when they complied with the 

 conditions of the constitution : F. O. Marvin, Lawrence ; L. E. Sayre, 

 Lawrence ; Warren Knaus, McPherson. 



Prof. S. W. Williston, of the University of Chicago, was elected an 

 honorary member of the Academy, 



The committee presented memorials on Dr. Geo. T, Fairchild, Col, 

 N, S. Goss, and Davis A. Boyles. 



Moved and voted that the report be accepted, and the memorials be 

 published. 



Committee on secretary's report, through Prof. L. E. Sayre, moved 

 the report be adopted and the same be spread upon the minutes, and 

 it was so voted. 



The committee on portion of secretary's report referring to legisla- 

 tion reported as follows : 



1. That in the opinion of the committee it is inadvisable at the present time 

 to ask for any change in the relation of the Kansas Academy of Science to the 

 state. 



2. That if legal steps, such as a legislative act or action of the Executive 

 Council of the state are found to be needed to place the Goss ornithological col- 

 lections under the control of the Academy of Science, the executive committee 

 of the Academy be instructed to take such steps at once. 



The report w^as adopted. 



The reading of papers was then resumed : 



10. On the action of the acid reagents on the substituted ureas, by 

 F. B. Dains, 



11. Gold in Kansas, by J. T. Lovewell. 



12. The eleven and one-half inch equatorial of the Washburn Col- 

 lege observatory, by H. I. Woods. 



The committee on nominations recommended the following officers 

 for the year : 



President, J. C. Cooper, Topeka. 



Vice-presidents, Edward Bartow, Lawrence ; J. A. Yates, Ottawa. 



Treasurer, Alva J. Smith, Emporia. 



Secretary, G. P. Grimsley, Topeka, 



It was voted that the president cast the vote of the Academy for 

 these officers, and the vote was cast. 



The Academy then adjourned, to meet at eight p. m. 



