MINUTES. 



Forty-first Annual Meeting, Kansas Academy of Science, 



December 31, 1908, January 1, 2, 1909, at Topeka, Kan. 



\ BOUT fifty members met in the supreme court room in the 

 -^-^ state-house at 7:30 p. m., and were called to order by the 

 president, E. Haworth. The secretary being called on for his re- 

 port, referred to the minutes of the last meeting, already published 

 in the Transactions (volume XXI, pt. 1 ), making the reading here 

 unnecessary, and continuing, reported as follows: 



We are getting used to our new quarters, and perceive certain 

 advantages which they have over our old rooms in the basement. 

 It is not pleasant to remember the uncertain tenure of our present 

 rooms, since this edifice was not constructed primarily to make a 

 home for the Academy, and any quarters assigned to us now must 

 be regarded as a makeshift, and the Academy awaits permanent 

 quarters in a new building, to be erected, as we hope, in the not 

 distant future. The state officials thus far have given very respect- 

 ful recognition to our claims, and the best has been done which 

 the conditions permitted. 



The annual publication of our Transactions is a great advance 

 over the old plan of making it an appendix to the biennial report 

 of the State Board of Agriculture. The Academy should repre- 

 sent the scientific enterprise and progress of the state, and should 

 include in its membership a much larger number of those who are 

 able to contribute to this end. In a year like this there is need of 

 a legislative committee, who will keep duly informed of the meas- 

 ures before our legislature, and be prepared to advance the inter- 

 ests of the Academy in all proper ways. If we do not go forward 

 we must retrograde, and that is a thing not to be allowed in Kan- 

 sas. The papers submitted in our program this year will certainly 

 give us a very valuable volume of Transactions, and the discussions 

 should prove interesting and stimulating. 



A part of the program herewith gives a list of the papers, num- 

 bered so as to make reference convenient. 



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