350 Kansas Academy of Science. 



The effect of electric currents upon growing trees. 



The effect of insecticides and other chemicals when introduced into 



the circulation by injection into the vascular system of the plant 



direct. (Experiments mostly confined to trees.) 



By Prof. L. T. Reser, with aid of students, Baker University. 



Work to be begun during 1917 : 



A study of the root development of fall-planted trees to determine the 

 advantages of fall planting from this standpoint, if any exists. 



Prof. Chas. A. Scott, K. S. A. C. 

 GEOLOGY. 



Work under way : 



The study of geology in its relation to the production of oil and gas. 



By Alva J. Smith, Emporia. 



Preparation of volume of geology of midcontinental oilfields. 

 Manuscript on general resume of Kansas coal fields. 

 Manuscript on general resume of Kansas gypsum beds. 

 Introduction to report on Cretaceous clays of Kansas. 

 Introduction to report on geology of good-roads material, clays, stone 

 and cement. 



By Prof. E. Haworth, University of Kansas. 



Stratigraphy of the Kinderhook rocks of Missouri (to be published by 



Missouri Geological Survey.) 

 Lower Mississipian geology of Missouri and western Illinois. 

 Contributions to the paleontology of the Mississipian of the Central 



States. 



By Dr. Raymond C. Moore, University of Kansas. 



Contribution to the geology of Bermuda Islands. 

 Petrography of crystalline rocks of Kansas. 



By Dr. Winhtrop P. Haynes, University of Kansas. 



Glacial deposits of Kansas. 



By Prof. J. E. Todd, University of Kansas. 

 MATHEMATICS. 



Work under way : 



Modern Geometry; a new line of material being developed into a text- 

 book. 



By Profs. John N. Van der Vries and E. B. Stouflfer, University of 

 Kansas. 



Revision of textbook material in analytic geometry and calculus. 



By Prof. C. H. Ashton, University of Kansas. 



Notes on the n-dimensional cycles of an algebraic n-dimensional 



variety. (Published in Rendiconti of Palermo, Italy.) 

 Geometry on ruled surfaces. (Published in Aynerican Journal of 



Mathematics.) 

 The equation of Picaid-Fuchs for an algebraic surface with arbitrary 



singularities. (Published in Bulletin of American Mathematical 



Society.) 

 Cubic surfaces and their nodes. (Published in University of Kansas 



Science Bulletin.) 



By Prof. S. Lefschetz, University of Kansas. 



