MINUTES OF FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING, 

 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



TOPEKA, December 22, 1914. 



The forty-seventh annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science convened at eleven o'clock a. m. in the supreme court 

 room, at the statehouse in Topeka, and was called to order by 

 the president, W. A. Harshbarger. 



The secretary's report of the forty-sixth annual meeting, at 

 Baldwin, was accepted as printed in the twenty-sixth volume of 

 the Transactions. 



The secretary, in his office as librarian, reported the usual 

 accessions by exchanges, except that from the German states 

 the war had curtailed the number. The Smithsonian and other 

 departments at Washington continue to send us their valuable 

 publications. The bulletins from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture have been especially frequent and valuable. For the past 

 year we have been unable to get any binding done at the state 

 printing plant, so that now we have more than 500 volumes 

 awaiting binding. A few volumes have been obtained by pur- 

 chase, and we continue our subscription to the North American 

 Flora, of which twenty-five parts have now been issued. 



The reports of the secretary-librarian were accepted. 



The president named the following committees : 



Nominations: Todd, Smith, McWharf. 



Resolutions : Kent, Randall, Miss Meeker. 



Procjrcun: Mrs. Smyth, Agrelius, Reiser. 



Necrology : Dains, Willard, Wooster. 



Audit: Knaus, Swenson. 



Membership: Risser, Warfel, Todd. 



Publication: Willard, Bailey, Shirk. 



Press: Sayre, Lovewell. 



Legislature: Bailey, Knaus, Wooster, Sayre, Yates. 



The address of the retiring president being next in order. 

 President Harshbarger gave a very interesting sketch of the 

 past history and future prospects of the Academy. The ad- 

 dress is printed in full in this volume. 



Following is a list of the papers submitted for this meeting: 



1. The Passing of the Orange (second paper). A. A. Graham. 



2. Our Changing Seasons. A. A. Graham. 



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