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The work of Professors Snow and Dyche and Colonel Goss is 

 particularly worthy of note, in that it has resulted in two 

 splendid collections of mounted birds, the one in the museum 

 of the State University, and the other donated to the state, and 

 never yet adequately displayed, for want of room. 



At the sixth meeting Professor Snow presented a prelimi- 

 nary list of the Lepidoptera of Kansas, and added to it from 

 year to year until it is a practically complete catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera of Kansas. 



At the seventh meeting Professor Popenoe presented a pre- 

 liminary list of the Coleoptera of Kansas, and this has received 

 extensive additions by Professor Snow, Mr. Knaus and others, 

 and, as our program shows, is still in progress. 



Professor Popenoe published a preliminary list of Kansas 

 Hemiptera in 1884, and a list of Hymenoptera in 1885, both of 

 which have received large additions. 



Other lists published in our proceedings are : Catalogue of 

 Kansas Mammals, by Knox ; Catalogue of Kansas Fishes, by 

 Graham ; also, lists of serpents, clams, Orthoptera and Diptera, 

 which I pass for want of time. Surely this work of classifica- 

 tion alone would justify the existence of the Academy, and 

 these published lists render the Proceedings very valuable; 

 yet this is only one of a large number if lines of investigation 

 carried on. 



In meteorology the summaries published by Professor Snow 

 formed for years the only available records on Kansas weather. 

 This line of work was also taken up by Professor Lovewell at 

 Topeka, and finally culminated in the establishment of a sta- 

 tion of the United States Weather Bureau. 



In chemistry, that many-sided subject, our Transactions are 

 particularly rich. Beginning with the work of Professor 

 Saunders in the fifth and seventh meetings, in which he pre- 

 sented analyses of coals, limestones and various clays, the chem- 

 ists of the Academy have kept in close touch with the develop- 

 ment of every branch of the subject, and nearly every volume 

 of our Transactions contains valuable papers that touch our 

 industrial development at its every point. The names of 

 Kedzie, Patrick, Failyer, Bailey, Sayre, Willard, Franklin, 

 Bartol, Cady, Dains, and many others are very prominent and 

 deserve extended notice. Beginning with his paper, in 1883, 

 on the utilization of mineral waters, Professor Bailey has pre- 



