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seven members and that it be called the executive council. 

 Prof. A. J. Smith thought the legislature is apt to be sus- 

 picious of lobbying committees. 



Several others participated in the discussion, and finally a 

 motion prevailed to refer the matter to a committee of five, to 

 be appointed by the chair, who should consider the matter 

 of nominating the executive council and report later. 



The president appointed Wooster, Cardiff, Bushong, Smith, 

 and Havenhill as this committee. 



The Academy next listened to the reading of papers from 

 the following list, in the order as announced by program com- 

 mittee : 



1. A Suggested Revision of the Terminology of Agriculture, L. C. 



Wooster. 



2. An Esker near Mason, Mich., L. C. Wooster. 



3. A Rare Mexican Cycad, W. B. Wilson. 



4. Recent Methods in Organic Analysis, E. R. Groner. 



5. Successful Termination of the Loco Weed Investigation, L. E. Sayre. 



6. Analysis of Food Accessories under the Food and Drugs Law, L. E. 



Sayre. 



7. Physical Culture in Schools, J. H. Klopfer. 



8. The Dance and Shamaic Performances of the Quileute Indians, A. 



B. Reagan. 



9. Sketches of Indian Life and Character, A. B. Reagan. 



10. Maxwell's Method of Comparing Electrostatic Capacity with Self- 



inductance, J. A. Shirk. 



11. A New Geometrical Figure and its Possible Application, E. C. 



Warfel. 



12. Preliminary Note on Measuring the Speed of Photographic Shutters, 



H. I. Woods. 



13. Pollution of Domestic Ground Water Supply, S. J. Crumbine. 



14. Tools and Toys, B. B. Smyth. 



15. Milk Sickness in Kansas, L. C. R. Smyth. 



16. The Flora of Minima Hill, L. C. R. Smyth. 



17. An Embryonic Plesiosaur Propodial, R. L. Moodie. 



18. Provisional List of the Flora of Kansas, B. B. Smyth, John H. 



Schaffner, and Lumina C. Riddle Smyth. 



19. Is the Dakota Formation Upper or Lower Cretaceous? J. E. Todd. 



20. Further Notes on Pleistocene Drainage, J. E. Todd. 



21. An Unusual Walnut (?) I. D- Cardiff. 



22. Fifty Years of Evolution, A. H. Thompson. 



23. Additions to the List of Kansas Coleoptera for 1909, W. Knaus. 



24. Note on the Food of Bothrotes Knausii Caley, W. Knaus. 



25. Notes on Kansas Coleoptera, W. Knaus. 



26. Kansas Coleoptera — the Families Throscidae, Lampyridae, Malachidae, 



Clevid«, Cupescidae, Cioidse, Melandoyidae, CEdemeridae, Anthicidae, 

 Pyrochroidae and Rhipiphoride (five minutes), W. Knaus. 

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