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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVIII. 



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Present and Past OflRcers of the Academy 2 



Membership of the Academy January 6, 1903 3 



Additions to Membership List 287 



Historical Sketch of the Academy 6 



Constitution of the Academy 7 



By-laws of the Academy 8 



Minutes of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, at lola, 1901 9 



Minutes of Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting, at Topeka, 1902 14 



Announcements by the Secretary 286 



Advertisement of previous Volumes 285 



ADDRESSES DELIVERED AND PAPERS READ AT THE lOLA AND TOPEKA 



MEETINGS. 

 I.— Presidential Addresses: 



Science and the Nineteenth Century. Ephraim Miller 2T 



The Mission and Limitations of Science. J. T. Willard 36 



II.— Chemical and Physical Papers: 



A Study of Dietaries at Lawrence, Kan. E. H. S. Bailey 49 



Crystalline Liquids. Fred B.Porter 54 



Some Kansas Petroleum. Edward Bartow and Elmer V. McCollum 57 



The Composition and Digestibility of Prairie Hay and of Buffalo-grass Hay. J. T. 



Willard and R. W. Clothier 59 



Distinguishing Red and White Oak Lumber by Chemical Analysis of their Ash. E. 



B. Knerr 61 



On the Alkyl Sulphates. F. W. Bushong 62 



Some Sandstone Waters of Great Purity. E. H. S. Bailey 68 



III.— Geological Papers: 



The Spanish Peaks. J. J. Jewett 73 



Economic Geology of lola and Vicinity. G. P. Grimsley 78 



Notes on the Geology of the Antelope Hills. R. S. Sherwin 83 



Notes on the Theories of Origin of Gypsum Deposits. R. 8. Sherwin 85 



Experiences with Early Man in America. Charles H. Sternberg 89 



The Permian Life of Texas. Charles H. Sternberg 94 



Geology of Lyon County, Kansas. Alva J. Smith 99 



Further Studies in the Mentor Beds. Alfred W. Jones 104 



The Ottawa Gas-wells. J. A. Yates 106 



Physiographic Divisions of Kansas. Geo. I. Adams 109 



List of Fossil Plants Collected in Vicinity of Onaga, Kan. F. F. Crevecoeur 124 



Gold in Kansas Shales. J. T. Lovewell 129 



Gold in Kansas. J. T. Lovewell 134 



IV.— Biological Papers: 



Loco Weed. L. E. Sayre 1*1 



Notes on the Trees, Shrubs and Vines in the Southern Part of the Cherokee Nation. 



C. N. Gould 145 



A Provisional List of the Uredinese of Bourbon County, Kansas. A. O. Garrett 147 



Statistics about Kansas Birds. D. E. Lantz 151 



Notes on the Birds of Kansas, and a Revised Catalogue. F. H. Snow 1.54 



A New Species of Fish. F. F. Crevecoeur 177 



Notes on the Food Habits of California Sea-lions. L. L. Dyche 179 



Food Habits of the Common Garden Mole. L. L. Dyche 183 



Additions to the List of Kansas Coleoptera for 1901 and 1902. Warren Knaus 187 



Preliminary List of Medicinal and Economic Plants in Kansas. B. B. Smyth 191 



