280 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



v.— Miscellaneous Papers: 



The Drying-up of Pools and Streams in Central Kansas. S. G. Mead 213 



Origin of Names of Kansas Streams. J. R. Mead 215 



Loss of Teeth as a Disqualification for Military Service. Edward Bumgardner 217 



On Certain Methods of the Geometry of Position. Arnold Emch 220 



The Eleven-and-one-half-inch Equatorial Telescope of Washburn College Observa- 

 tory. H.L.Woods 231 



Review of the Crop Season of 1902. T. B. Jennings 234 



VI.— Necrology : 



Col. N. S. Goss 243 



Dr. Geo. T. Fairchild 244 



Davis A. Boyles 245 



VII. — Appendix. 



Accessions to the Academy Library, 1901 and 1902 249 



General Index to the Academy Transactions, 1872 to 1900 260 



Index to Volume XVIII (1903) 281 



Advertisement of Volumes Issued by the Academy 285 



Announcements by the Secretary 286 



Additions to the List of Members of the Academy 287 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Lincoln College (now Washburn), Topeka, 1865 Frontispiece . 



Kansas Academy of Science Museum of Mineral Industries 8 



OflBce and Library of the Kansas Academy of Science 16 



Shale Pit of the lola Brick Company, at lola, Kan 80 



Field southjof lola, in 1898, where the lola Cement Mill was erected in 1899 and 1900 88 



lola Portland Cement Mill, 1900 96 



Roaring Spring Cliii', Ellsworth county, Kan 112 



Mushroom Rock, Alum Creek, Ellsworth county, Kansas 120 



Shale Bank on the Smoky Hill River 128*' 



Shale Bank near the Smoky Hill River 136' 



Smoky HillfRiver Valley, showing Shale Banks 144 



Washburn College Observatory 21o 



The New Equatorial Telescope in Washburn College Observatory ; 232 



Col. N. 8. Goss 240 



Dr. Geo. T. Fairchild 240 



