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MINUTES OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING, 

 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



TOPEKA, January 12, 1917. 



The forty-ninth annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science convened in the assembly room of Memorial Hall, 

 Topeka. The session was called to order at 10 a. m, by the 

 president, J. E. Todd. 



The minutes of the forty-eighth annual meeting were read 

 and approved. 



The secretary then read the following report, which was 

 accepted and placed on file : 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Mr. President and Metnbers of the Kansas Academy of Science: The 

 present secretary assumed office July 1, 1916, relieving Dr. J. T. Love- 

 well, secretary for the past ten years. Upon assuming the office the 

 secretary began at once to carry out certain instructions I'eceived from 

 the Executive Committee. These instructions for handling the office 

 and the line of work which the Academy was to follow for the ensuing 

 year were, I understand, decided upon at the last annual meeting of the 

 Academy. These instructions have been faithfully followed by the 

 secretary as far as possible. The following is a brief statement of the 

 suggestions made to me and the results obtained in following them out. 



1. It was suggested that I have Mr. Connelley, of the Historical 

 Society, start his assistants at work cataloguing our library. This was 

 promised by Mr. Connelley two years ago, but for various reasons he has 

 not seen fit to begin the work. At the suggestion of Mr. Connelley, the 

 secretary deposited with the Library of Congress, from the contingent 

 fund of the Academy, $16 for index cards to be used in the work of 

 cataloguing our library. I still hold the receipt, as the cards were never 

 used. 



As the matter now stands, four thousand of our books are shelved, 

 labeled and classified, but not catalogued, and hence useless for reference 

 purposes. Half of the work towards putting our library in shape is com- 

 pleted; half remains undone. 



At present the secretary piles on the floor all the new books and pam- 

 phlets that are received by the Academy, as there is no other place to put 

 them. The Historical Society has placed many of our books and peri- 

 odicals with their library, in order to complete broken files. The secre- 

 tary, however, has a list of these books upon their shelves. 



2. Upon assuming the office of secretary I attempted to carry out a 

 second suggestion made to me by the committee, namely, to build up an 

 economic museum representing all the natural resources of the state, 

 such as coal, salt, oils, lead and zinc, building stone, etc. After having 



