138 Kansas Acadeniij of Science. 



LIBRARY AND MUSEUM REPORT. 



The library of the Academy is now associated with that of 

 the Historical Society as a separate department, and will be 

 placed in the book stacks and be indexed and catalogued by 

 the best modern and approved methods. It has been the policy 

 of the Academy in late years to apply the funds arising from 

 membership dues to building up this library, especially by pur- 

 chase of books of great value and not likely to be found in other 

 state collections. The library is constantly growing through 

 its domestic and foreign exchange list, and now contains more 

 than 7000 volumes, including those now waiting to be bound 

 by the state printer. The combined libraries in the New 

 Memorial Building will number more than 100,000 volumes, 

 and with the state library will furnish by far the largest book 

 collection in Kansas. Our museum has been greatly enriched 

 by a gift to the Academy of the state mineral display erected 

 at the St. Louis Exposition, and given suitable cases to hold 

 this large amount of material. It thus has the finest economic 

 collection of the Kansas mineral industries in the state — an 

 exhibit which received two gold medals, twenty-two silver 

 medals, and fourteen bronze medals. We fondly cherish the 

 hope that this museum may continue to grow till it furnishes 

 to Kansas advantages similar to those given to Pennsylvania 

 by the Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



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