To Members of the Academy. 



The present volume, delayed by pressure of work at the State 

 Printing Plant, will be found quite equal to its predecessors as a 

 contribution to science. By these published Transactions we are 

 making returns to the state which so largely meets our expenses, 

 and by our exchanges are building up a scientific library. This is 

 a part of the great collection of books at the state-house which lacks 

 now an administrative head, thorough organization and cataloguing. 

 When these wants are met there will be no library in the state 

 equal to it in size and value. 



Our museum also is the nucleus of what may become of great 

 economic importance to the commercial interests of the state, and 

 our members should impress upon the legislature the needs of its 

 enlargement. We need more members, and more unanimity and 

 enthusiasm in scientific investigation. \\ hen we have quarters in 

 the proposed new building we should make a new departure in the 

 line of progress. Our Academy ought to be an important part of 

 the educational machinery of the commonwealth, and we should 

 have more frequent meetings and definite plans for cooperative 

 work. The faculties of our colleges and others interested in 

 science should meet here to discuss the questions in science con- 

 stantly arising, and the Academy thus become a "clearing-house" 

 and center of scientific activity for the state. 



J. T. LOVEWELL, 



Secretary Kansas Academy of Science. 



