CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. 



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Present Officers and Past Presidents of the Academy 1 



Membership of the Academy January 1, 1909 3 



Secretary's Report, 1908 7 



Minutes of the Forty-first Annual meeting 7 



Memorial Tributes to Doctors Snow and Kellerman 17-47 



ADDRESS AND PAPERS. 



I. —President's Address : 



The Life History of a River. Erasmus Haworth 51 



II. ^Chemical AND Physical Papers: 



The Importance of Physiological Assay in the Standardization 



of some Drugs. Adolph Ziefle 73 



, The Manufacture of Enameled Ware. R. D. Landrum 76 



Economy of Heat in Cooking. J. T. Lovewell 81 



Discussion of a Pelton Water-wheel Test Made at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. Chas. I. Corp g4 



Preliminary Report of an Investigation of Coal-mine Explo- 

 sions. E. Haworth and C. M. Young gg 



Some Fluctuations in the Mineral Contents of the Kaw River. 



F. W. Bushong and Archie J. Weith 95 



Analysis of Spices. L. E. Sayre 9g 



Report on Analyses of Preparations Under the Pure Food and 



Drugs Law. L. E. Sayre 100 



The Lactose Bile Test for the Colon Bacillus. W. B. Wilson. 101 

 III.— Geological Papers: 



Drainage of the Kansas Ice-sheet. J. E. Todd IO7 



Expedition to the Laramie Beds of Converse county, Wyoming. 



Chas. H. Sternberg Ug 



Study of Certain Features of the Lawrence Shales. J. A. Yates 117 



The Skull and Extremities of Diplocaulus. S. W. Williston 122 



Notes on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. A. B. Reagan 131 

 The Carboniferous Quadrupeds of Kansas, Ohio, Illinois and 

 Pennsylvania, in their relation to the Classification of the 



so-called Amphibia and Stegocephala. Roy L. Moodie 239 



Formations of the Marion Stage of the Kansas Permian. J. W. 



Beede 248 



An Armored Dinosaur from the Kansas Chalk. Chas. H. Stern- 

 berg 257 



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