TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



I.— Introductory: page. 



1. Present and Past Officers of the Academy iv 



2. Membership of the Academy, January 1, 1913 iv 



3. Secretary's Report of Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 1 



4. Address of Retiring President at Forty-fourth Annual 



Meeting 6 



5. Address of Retiring President at Forty-fifth Annual Meet- 



ing 16 



II. —Chemical and Physical Papers: 



1. On the Powdered Sugar of Commerce 27 



2. Nostrums 29 



3. On the Reactions of the Formamidines 35 



4. Standardization of Insecticides and Disinfectants 37 



III.— Geological Paper: 



1. Notes on the Moraine of the Kansas Glacier, Southwest of 



Topeka 43 



2. Expeditions to the Niocene of Wyoming and the Chalk 



Beds of Kansas 45 



IV. — Biological Paper: 



1. Formaldehyde Gas Not Effective Upon Flies 53 



2. Further Records of Insects Personally Collected in Kansas 



and Colorado 54 



3. Provisional Catalogue of the Flora of Kansas 63 



4. A Partial Kej' to the Genera of North American Jassoidea, 129 



5. Insecticides 138 



6. A System of Notation Applied to Entomological Accessions, 142 



7. Biotropism 146 



V. — Miscellaneous Papers : 



1. On the Immunity of the Kansas Bottom Groundwaters to 



Changes in the Composition of the Kansas River Water, 153 



2. The Common Mole. —Runway Studies 160 



3. The. Longevity of Yale Graduates as Shown by the Pub- 



lication of "Living Graduates of Yale University in 

 1912" 164 



4. Has the Quality of Drugs Improved Since the Enactment 



of the Foods and Drugs Law ? 167 



5. A Further Discussison of Municipal Ownership of Water 



and Light Plants 170 



VI.— Necrology: 



1. Robert J. Brown 177 



2. James C. Cooper , 179 



3. John J, Jewett 178 



4. Mary Burgess Savage 182 



5. Bernard Bryan Smyth 184 



VII.— List OF Publications. —Index 187 



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