18 Kansas Academy of Science. 



27. Changes in the Cottonwood Limestone South of Cottonwood Falls, 



J. A. Yates. 



28. On the Coloring Matter in Fruits, E. H. S. Bailey, and E. L. Tague. 



29. On the Occurrence of Manganese in Waters, C. C. Young. 



30. A Comparison of Some Methods of Making Thymine, D. F. 



McFarland. 



31. On Food Adulterations, H. L. Jackson. 



32. The Prairie Dog Situation in Kansas, T. H. Scheffer. 



33. Investigating the Mole, T. H. Scheffer. 



34. Catalytic Tests and Treatment of Systematic Phtysis, W. P. 



McCartney. 



35. Mid-continent Petroleum, F. W. Bushong. 



36. Some Difficulties of Arsenic Tests, F. B. Dains. 



37. In the Niobrara and Laramie Cretaceous, C. H. Sternberg. 



38. Notes and Observations on Equisetum, I. D. Cardiff. 



Doctor Wooster read paper No. 1, and it was discussed by 

 Dains, Sayre, Cardiff and Wilson. 



Prof. C. C. Young read paper No. 29. This was discussed 

 by Dains, Sayre, Lovewell, Smith and Sternberg. 



Prof. T. H. Scheffer read No. 33, and it was discussed by 

 Sayre, Lovewell and Young. The latter said he had kept a 

 mole in captivity for three months, feeding it on bread and 

 milk. 



Doctor Cardiff read No. 21. Discussed by Scheffer. 



Doctor Dains read No. 36. Discussed by Bailey. 



Session adjourned for lunch. 



1:30 P. M. 



The committee appointed to consider the matter of an ex- 

 ecutive council reported their conclusion that such a council 

 is advisable, and recommended that it consist of the present 

 executive committee and four others to be appointed by the 

 Academy. Report adopted. 



It was moved and carried that this committee bring in four 

 additional names for the executive council and report them at 

 the evening session. 



Professor Sayre read No. 6. Discussed by Willard, Stern- 

 berg and Bailey. 



Prof. H. L. Jackson next read paper No. 31. Discussed by 

 Dains, Scheffer and Wooster. Professor Sayre said the 

 chemist cannot always decide whether or not certain food 

 preparations are injurious. There is much self-deception, as 

 when a woman thought she made six pounds of butter out of 



