12 Kansas Academy of Science. 



Symposium: Fifty Years of Scientific Development in Kansas, 

 The Academy of Science. W. A. Harshbarger. 

 Botany. L. C. Wooster. 

 Chemistry. E. H. S. Bailey. 

 Geology and Paleontology. Erasmus Haworth. 

 Zoology. W. J. Baumgartner. 

 The Early History of Medicine. J. W. McWharf. 

 The Early History of Pharmaceutical and Medical Chemistry. L. 

 Sayre. 



Lecture: Growth of Science during the Last Half Century. Prof. S. 

 W. Williston, M. D., Ph. D., University of Chicago. 



TITLES OF PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. 

 (In the order received by the Secretary.) 



1. Occurrences of Black Flies in Louisiana during Recent Years. E. S. 



Tucker, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station. 



2. Research Work with Insects Infesting Stored Rice. E. S. Tucker, 



Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station. 



3. Botanical Notes, 1917. Frank U. G. Agrelius, State Normal School, 



Emporia. 



4. The Common Rocks and Gem-stones of Kansas and How to Recognize 



Them. M. M. Schmidt, Home City. 



5. Hunting Dinosaurs on the Red Deer River, Alberta. Charles H. 



Sternberg, Lawrence. 



6. The Moraines of Estes Park, Colorado. Lyman C. Wooster, State 



Normal School, Emporia. 



7. Do Use and Disuse Modify Heredity? Lyman C. Wooster, State 



Normal School, Emporia. 



8. A Probable Case of Superfetation in the Cow. Mary T. Harmon, 



Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan. 



9. Abnormalities in the Central Nervous System of the Chick. Florence 



Alsop, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan. 



10. The Origin of Cyclones. A. A. Graham, Topeka. 



11. The Genus Strategus of America North of Mexico. Warren Knaus, 



McPherson. 



12. The New Kansas-Oklahoma Zinc Field. Arthur C. Terrill, Univer- 



sity of Kansas, Lawrence. 



13. Mineralography of the Comstock Ores. Arthur C. Terrill, University 



of Kansas, Lawrence. 



14. On the Transmission of the Fowl Cestode, Davinea cesticillus 



(Molin). James E. Ackert, Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 Manhattan. 



15. Studies on a Modification of the Gram Stain. Noble P. Sherwood 



and Cora Downs, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



16. War Bread: Corn Starch and High Protein Flour Mixtures for Bak- 



ing. L. E. Sayre, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



17. Corn Oil. L. E. Sayre, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



18. Coffee. L. E. Sayre, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



19. Aqueous Loess. J. E. Todd, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



20. Lacustrine Deposits near Atchison, Kan. J. E. Todd, University of 



Kansas, Lawrence. 



21. Evaporation in Kansas. Charles A. Schull, University of Kansas, 



Lawrence. 



