TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Additions to the Catalogue of Kansas Birds 28, 77 



Additions for 1885 and 1886 to tlie list of Kansas coleoptera 86 



Atlantic vs. Pacific elevations in Kansas 53 



Black and white 37 



Catalogue of the library of the Kansas Academy of Science 145 



Coal measures of Lyon county 45 



Destruction of the passivity of iron in nitric acid by magnetization, The 13 



Discovery of a fossil bird-track in the Dakota sandstone 3 



Eighteenth annual meeting 3 



Effects of oxygen upon animal life, Preliminary report concerning 72 



Families of diptera, Table of the 122 



Formation of sugar crystals in the juice of Sorghum saceharaium, Observation of the 26 



Geological section in Wilson county, Kansas, A 6 



Habit of the red ants, Note on 27 



Historical sketch of geological work in Kansas 45 



Kansas parasitic fungi, together with their host-plants, Second list of. 88 



Kansas forest trees identified by leaves and fruit, The 99 



Loco weed 65 



Meteorological summary for 1885 31 



Meteorological summary for 1886 142 



Miscellaneous chemical notes : 



L On the presence of Barium Strontium and Lithium in the mineral waters of Kansas 62 



II. Mineral oil from Fort Scott 62 



III. Ellsworth county mineral waters 63 



Mounds in Davis county 72 



Natural gas in eastern Kansas 57 



New apparatus for the continuous extraction of solids by a volatile solvent 20 



New variety of a sonoran serpent from Kansas, Note on 85 



Nineteenth annual meeting .37 



North American tabanidae, Notes and description of 129 



Occurrence of bromides and iodides in the water of an artesian well at Independence, Kansas 22 



Oviposition of the Buflfalo Tree-Hopper, Notes on 84 



Pueblo ruins in New Mexico 73 



Red Cedar Saw-Fly, Noteson 80 



Relative bitterness of different bitter substances. The 23 



Relation of a State geological survey to the work of the National Survey, The 9 



Remarkable fossil, Note on a 128 



Report on geology 21 



Sky, The Ill 



Some Kansas mineral waters 63 



Sweetness of invert sugar, with some notes on its preparation 24 



Variations in the sugar-content ot Sorghum vulgare 70 



