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the list of members of the Academy, appending to each name its academic 

 title and the special line of work in which each member is engaged, and 

 also the latest post-office address. 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Academy are extended to its local 

 members for their general good-fellowship and their royal entertainment at 

 Washburn College. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Academy are extended to the local pa- 

 pers for their liberal reports of the meetings of the Academy. 



J. M. McWharf, 



J. E. Welin, Committee. 



It was moved and carried that a committee of five be appointed 

 to seek the assistance of the Board of Health in trying to procure 

 legislation to prevent the use of mineral poisons in embalming 

 fluids. Voted that retiring and incoming presidents be members 

 of this committee. The other members, named by the chair, were 

 Dr. C. F. Menninger and Dr. S. J. Crumbine. 



At the suggestion of Mr. Withington, the secretary was directed 

 to subscribe for the Entomological News for the Academy. 



Moved and carried that the Executive Committee be authorized 

 to buy, with the Academy^s funds, such books and journals as they 

 deem important for the library, when the same cannot be obtained 

 by exchanges. 



The Auditing Committee reported that they had found the 

 treasurer's report correct. Adopted. 



The Necrology Committee reported the death of a life member, 

 Hon. J. R. Mead, of Wichita. Obituary notice to be prepared by 

 secretary. 



The reading of papers was then resumed. 



In No. 36 Doctor Sayre discussed "Some Problems in the Drug 

 End of Food-and-Drugs Law Administration." 



Prof. J. E. Todd read "Notes on the Preglacial Channel of the 

 Kansas River," No. 14. 



No. 23 was a paper by Bernard B. Smyth, "America During the 

 Bronze Age " Professor Smyth also read No. 24, "Harmonic Forms 

 III — Paladin Squares." 



No. 34, "The Trend of Pure-food Legislation," was given in ab- 

 stract by Professor Bailey. 



J. T. Lovewell read No. 33, "The Future Library of the Kansas 

 Academy Book Collections in the State House." 



In No. 7 Rev. B. F. Stauber gave in Miltonic verse a rhapsody 

 entitled "Song of the Stars — Part I," which implied a promise that 

 in some future session we shall have the pleasure of listening, in 

 this pleasant way, to the author's speculations on cosmogony. 



