(; KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



"Meteorological observations at Emporia," by T. H. Dinsmore. 



"A resume of the crop-weather season of 1893 in Kansas," by T. B. Jennings. 



A new aecidium of peculiar habit," by M. A. Carleton. 



"The solvent action of acetic acid as a substitute for alcohol," by L. E. 

 Sayre. 



"On the comparative value of the hypobromite and hypochlorite methods 

 in testing for urea," by L. E. Sayre. 



"Long-continued blooming of Malvastrum coccineum," by Minnie Reed. 



"Our Kansas mosses," by Minnie Reed. 



"A freak in Solanum tuberosum," by D. S. Kelly. 



"Notes on Kansas plants in the herbarium of the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege," by A. S. Hitchcock. (Read by M. A. Carleton.) 



The following papers were read by title: 



"The Kansas river as a source of city water supply," by E. H. S. Bailey. 



"On the composition of mineral water from the vicinity of the Great 

 Spirit Spring," by E. H. S. Bailey and M. A. Rice. 



"Telephonic communications b^Lween anchored vessels," by L. I. Blake. 



"A geologic section along the Neosho river," by Erasmus Haworth. 



■"On the composition of a natural oil from Wilson county," by F. B. Dains. 



■"Coal in Atchison county," by E. B. Knerr. 



"Some experimental telephonic and induction coils," by E. W. Caldwell. 



"A method for producing rain artificially," by L. I. Blake. 



"Inverse of conies and conicoids," by M. E. Rice. 



"Notes on hypnotic suggestions,' jy Prof. Marvin and others. 

 The following new members were elected: Prof. H. S. Harnley, McPherson; 

 Dr. S. Z. Sharp, McPherson; Prof. Erasmus Haworth, Lawrence; Prof. W. V. 

 Ingham, Lecompton. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 President, L. E. Sayre, Lawrence. 

 First Vice-President, I. D. Graham, Manhattan. 

 Second Vice-President, J. D. Hewitt, Emporia. 

 Secretary, E. B. Knerr, Atchison. 

 Treasurer, Dorman S. Kelly, Emporia. 

 Librarian, B. B. Smyth, Topeka. 



Curators: A. H. Thompson, B. B. Smyth, C. S. Prosser, all of Topeka. 

 A resolution was passed extending the thanks of the Academy to Prof. 

 Arthur Winslow for his entertaining and instructive lecture. 



SMALL THINGS. 



Address of the retiring President, Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, Lawrence. 

 The Kansas Academy of Science last year celebrated its twenty-fifth an- 

 niversary. It is not a young nor a new institution in the state, for it has 

 been identified with its growth and development. It has helped to increase 

 that material wealth that Is so important to the prosperity of a state. Its 

 members have been looking into the ground to see what they could find that 

 was of value; they have studied the animals and plants that were above the 

 ground, to see which should be increased for the benefit of man, and which, 

 like the pestiferous chinch-bug and the Canada thistle, should be eliminated 

 and driven from the face of the earth, at least as far as Kansas was con- 



