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the record of this work carried on for about forty years. Our Transac- 

 tions show, also, much work of a more special character, and also work of 

 a jfeneral educational nature. The following titles illustrate this class of 

 work: 



Black Rot of the Grape. Carpenter, 1887. 

 Blackberry Branch Knot. Kellerman, 1890. 

 Sorghum Smuts. Kellerman, 1891. 



Characteristics of the Sand Hill Flora. Carleton, 1889. 

 Kansas Forest Trees Identified by their Leaves and Fruit. Keller- 

 man, 188(i. 

 Artificial Key to Kansas Grasses. Kellerman, 1888. 

 Evolution of Leaves. Mrs. Kellerman, 1890. 



At the fourth meeting Professor Snow presented his first list of the 

 birds of Kansas, to which he made many later additions. Colonel Goss, 

 Professor Lantz and others also contributed to this list, the contributions 

 by Colonel Goss being very extensive. So we have in our Transactions, 

 not only a very complete list of the birds of the state, but an extensive 

 series of valuable papers on their habits and economic importance. The 

 work of Professors Snow and Dyche, and Colonel Goss, is particularly 

 worthy of note in that it has resulted in two splendid collections of 

 mounted birds, the one in the museum of the State University, and the 

 other donated to the state. 



At the sixth meeting Professor Snow presented a preliminary list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Kansas, and added to it from year to year, until 

 it is a practically complete catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Kansas. 



At the seventh meeting Professor Popenoe presented a preliminary list 

 of the Coleoptera of Kansas, and this has received extensive additions 

 by Professor Snow, Mr. Knaus and others, and as our program shows, is 

 still in progress. 



Professor Popenoe published a preliminary list of Kansas Hemiptera 

 in 1884 and a list of Hymenoptera in 1885, both of which have received 

 large additions. 



Other lists published in our proceedings are: 



Catalogue of Kansas Mammals. Knox. 

 Catalogue of Kansas Fishes. Graham. 



Also, lists of serpents, clams, Orthoptera, and Diptera, which I pass 

 for want of time. Surely this work of classification alone would justify 

 the existence of the Academy, and these published lists render the pro- 

 ceedings very valuable. Yet this is only one of a large number of lines 

 of investigations carried on. 



In meteorology the summaries published by Professor Snow formed for 

 years the only available records on Kansas weather. This line of work 

 was also taken up by Professor Lovewell, at Topeka, and finally culmi- 

 nated in the establishment of a station of the U. S. Weather Bureau. 



In chemistry, that many-sided subject, our Transactions are particu- 

 larly rich. Beginning with the work of Professor Saunders in the fifth 

 and seventh meetings, in which he presented analyses of coals, limestones 

 and various clays, the chemists of the Academy have kept in close touch 

 with the development of every branch of the subject, and nearly every 



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