CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. 



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Present and Past Officers of the Academy 2 



Membership of the Academy January 10, 1906 5 



Secretary's Report, 1905 10 



Minutes of Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting v 13 



ADDRESS AND PAPERS. 



I.— President's Address, 1905: 



The Development of the Sciences in Kansas. Lyman C. Wooster, 23 



II.— Chemical Papers: 



The Reaction of Animal Cells to Chemical Stimuli. Frank H. 



Hartman 43 



The Chemical Processes for the Detection of Organic Substances 



and Medicinal Chemicals. L. E. Sayre 50 



A Chemical Study of the Lime and Sulfur Dip. Roscoe H. Shaw, 53 

 On the Durability of Cement Plaster. E. H. S. Bailey and W. 



G. Stromquist 61 



III.— Geological Papers: , 



The University of Kansas Expedition into the John Day Region 

 of Oregon. C. E. McClung 67 



The Loup Fork Miocene of Western Kansas. Charles H. Stern- 

 berg 71 



Additional Observations on the Geology of Kansas. Lyman C. 

 Wooster 75 



IV. —Biological Papers: 



Determinations of some Texas Coleoptera, with Records. El- 

 bert S. Tucker 85 



Additions to the List of Kansas Diptera. F. F. Crevecoeur .... 90 



The Effect of Light on Melilotus alba. R. W. Coppedge 97 



Additions to List of Kansas Coleoptera, 1905. Warren Knaus . . 106 



Collecting Insects at Night. Elbert S. Tucker 108 



Additions to the List of Kansas Arachnida. Theo. H. Scheffer, 121 

 The Red Phalarope— A New Bird for the Kansas List. L. L. 



Dyche 131 



Notes on Some Mosquitoes of Douglas County. Chauncey Over- 

 man 133 



Some Results of the University of Kansas Entomological Ex- 

 peditions to Texas, 1904 and 1905. F. H. Snow 136 



Some Results of the University of Kansas Entomological Ex- 

 peditions to Arizona, 1904 and 1905. F. H. Snow 155 



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