MINUTES. 



Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting, Kansas Academy of Science, 

 December 1 and 2, 1905. 



Lawrence, Kan., December 1, 1905. 

 TI>UR.SUANT to call of the executive committee, the thirty-eighth 

 -*- meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science was opened in the 

 lecture-room of Snow hall at nine a. m., with the president, L. C. 

 Wooster, in the chair. There was an attendance of about fifty 

 members, and the president announced the following committees : 



On resolutions : Messrs. Mead, Willard, and Miss Meeker. 



On necrology : Messrs. Knaus, Miller, and Cooper. 



On membership : Messrs. Bushong, Tucker, and Harshbarger. 



On nominations: Messrs. Stevens, Scheffer, and Iden. 



On the press : Messrs. Sayre and Knaus. 



The secretary's report was read and accepted. On motion, cer- 

 tain recommendations of this report were referred to a committee, 

 and the chair named Messrs. Willard and Bushong as this committee. 



The Academy next listened to the reading of papers in the fol- 

 lowing order : 



1. A new repetition of the Foucault pendulum experiment, J. 

 T. Lovewell. 



2. The genesis of gold in mineral veins and placers, J. T. Love- 

 well. 



3. Some recent high-efficiency lamps, L. H. Freeman. 



4. Is the rainfall of Kansas increasing '? F. H. Snow. 



5. The University of Kansas expedition into the John Day 

 region of Oregon, C. E. McClung. 



Professor Sayre, on behalf of the local committee, announced 

 that the afternoon meetings of the Academy would be in two sec- 

 tions, which is necessary in order to complete the reading of the 

 papers that are on the program. 



President Wooster ruled that the vice-presidents will be chair- 

 men at these meetings of the sections, which will be designated as 

 section A and section B, respectively. 



Reading of papers resumed. 



-6. The variation of latitude, E. Miller. 



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