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volume of our Transactions contains valuable papers that touch our in- 

 dustrial development at its every point. The names of Kedzie, Patrick, 

 Failyer, Bailey, Sayre, Willard, Franklin, Bartol, Cady, Dains, and many 

 others are very promirent and deserve extended notice. Beginning with 

 his paper in 1883, on the utilization of mineral waters, Professor Bailey 

 has presented about fifty papers, on food products, water supply, oils, 

 and so on, but notably on foods. While beginning with Professor Sayre's 

 paper on "Loco Weed," in 1886, he has presented about the same number, 

 for the most part of the chemistry of drugs, spices, tea and coffee. The 

 work of Professors Failyer and Willard is devoted largely to agricul- 

 tural chemistry, in which line they have presented many papers. 



In physics and engineering, our Transactions, beginning with the fifth 

 meeting, contain a series of valuable papers by Tweeddale, Nichols, 

 Blake, Smith, Marvin, Hoad, Murphy, and many others, on a wide variety 

 of subjects, from the theoretical to the most severely practical. Such 

 titles as the following illustrate the character of this work : 



On Ventilation. Tweeddale, 1872. 



The Water Supply of Kansas. Tweeddale, 1874. 



Statistics on Color-blindness in the University of Kansas. Nichols, 



1884. 

 Tests of Cement Manufactured in Kansas. Murphy, 1889. 

 Magnetic Declination in Kansas. Marvin, 1889. 

 Maximum Bending Moments for Moving Loads in a Draw Beam. 



Murphy, 1892. 

 Tests of the Strength of Building Stones. Marvin, 1893. 

 Collection and Storage of Water in Kansas. Murphy, 1894. 

 Water Supply from a Sanitary Standpoint. Marvin, 1901. 

 Effect of Clay and Loam on Portland Cement. Hoad, 1904. 

 On Improved Water Supply for the City of Emporia. Smith, 1910. 



Finally, in the forty-seven years of its existence the Academy has 

 accumulated a library of at least six thousand bound volumes, and fully 

 as many pamphlets. These represent the work of scientific investigators 

 in all the leading countries, as weH as our own, and form a very valuable 

 addition to libraries of the state. This library has been secured almost 

 entirely by exchange for the Transactions of the Academy. 



I have thus sketched the growth and work of the Academy in an en- 

 deavor to emphasize the fact that from the beginning, when the state 

 was new, and scientific knowledge of its resources, of the composition 

 of its plant and animal life, was sadly needed, the members have at- 

 tacked the problems at hand and carried them through the succeeding 

 years, accumulating and recording knowledge of priceless value to the 

 state. Much of the work has been classification, taking an inventory, 

 as it were, but such work is imperative. I have also attempted to show 

 that the Kansas Academy of Science has been the means of unifying 

 the work of the investigators, a central organization from which radi- 

 ated the varied lines of investigation, and that in our Transactions we 

 have in a body records that, without some such clearing house, would be 

 widely scattered, and probably many of them lost. Also, without the 

 stimulus of some such organization many of the records of work would 

 never have been published. Having thus reviewed the past, let us turn to 

 the future. Has the need for such an organization ceased? The character 



