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obligation to do certain things which perhaps my knowledge of the situ- 

 ation here will enable me to do better than an entirely new person, and, 

 therefore, if that continuation of office should be granted to me, I should 

 wish to present at this time my resignation of the office of secretary, to 

 take effect at the end of the fiscal year — that is, the 1st of July — and I 

 hereby make that request. Of course I realize that only by your election 

 could I be considered an officer of the Academy, since your officers are 

 elected annually; but I wish to be relieved from' the burdens of this 

 office not later than the 1st of July. I hereby turn to you this provisional 

 resignation of the office of secretary. 



Professor Wooster then made the report of the Committee 

 on Nominations, as follows : 



The committee has felt a very great weight of responsibility. It has 

 passed the most critical point in the history of the Academy. If we were 

 wholly dependent upon ourselves, we could be guided wholly by our own 

 feelings, and as one of the old men of the Academy — I can hardly realize 

 that I am, but it cannot be denied — and one who has known our secretary 

 for over thirty years — met him, I believe, the first time he attended the 

 Academy^ — I am touchingly moved by the present question. Those of us 

 who have known Doctor Lovewell during this time have had the highest 

 esteem for his qualifications as a teacher and student, as a worker in the 

 Academy, and as a friend. We have held him in high position in our 

 affection, as well as in esteem for the work he did as a teacher and in 

 public scientific work. In the early days he organized the Kansas 

 Weather Service. He was one of the noted scientific men of the state, 

 and it is with the greatest regret that we realize that time has laid its 

 burden upon him; that he is no longer able to bear the heavy work of 

 administration, and of meeting the members of the legislature and the 

 men within the state. We feel that there should be some recognition of 

 the relation which he has held to the Academy for so long. While feeling, 

 from a sense of responsibility, that it is necessary for a younger man to 

 take up the burden of carrying constantly the Academy in its public rela- 

 tions, the Committee on Nominations, a fraction of the committee on the 

 welfare of the Academy, which was appointed yesterday, has thought of 

 little else during the last twenty-four hours. We believe that it is pos- 

 sible for the Academy to be a much greater power in the state than it 

 has ever been before. We believe that it is possible for this Academy to 

 stand for the relation of science, on all questions, to the welfare and 

 development of the state in the same way as the State Board of Agri- 

 culture represents the great agricultural interests. To do this requires 

 the enlistment of the scientific forces throughout the state; not merely 

 those in the state institutions, not those in colleges supported through the 

 efforts of the churches, but men in private life and in the high schools 

 and professions who appreciate the importance and value of science 

 should be united in this Academy and enabled through its organization 

 to make scientific knowledge and its application what it should be for the 

 interests of the entire state. 



Now I did not think of making a speech so long as this, but I have 



