KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



A resolution was presented, and adopted, as follows : 



"Resolved, That the Kansas Academy of Science have heard with profound sorrow of 

 the sudden death of Linnaeus A. Thomas, a member of this Academy, well known and 

 honored throughout the State as an earnest student of science, and a successful teacher of 

 youth. We can only bow in humility at this visitation of Divine Providence, by which 

 our beloved fellow-worker has been cut down in the midst of his usefulness, and we ex- 

 tend our sympathy to his stricken family." 



THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



The fifteenth annual meeting was opened at Topeka, in the Senate Cham- 

 ber, on the afternoon and evening of the 16th of November, 1882, and con- 

 tinued over the 17th and 18th. 



In pursuance of a departure from precedent adopted at the fourteenth 

 meeting of the Academy, one of the evenings was devoted to a social re- 

 union. The second evening was occupied by Prof. H. S. S. Smith, of the 

 State University, in a popular lecture upon "Comets, with especial reference 

 to Comet 'B,' of 1882." 



During the remainder of the session, in addition to the transaction of 

 business hereinafter noted, the Academy listened to the presentation and dis- 

 cussion of the papers in the following programme: "The Coal Fields of 

 Cherokee County, Kansas," E. Haworth. "Notes on the Golden Turkey," 

 Prof Geo. F. Gaumer. " Differences of Temperature due to Local Causes," 

 Prof. J. T. Lovewell. " Fossil Wood," Robert Hay. " Two Rare Minerals," 

 Prof. G. E. Patrick. "Report on the Work in Kansas Botany for 1882," 

 Rev. J. H. Carruth. "Kansas Ethnography — I. Preliminary Notice," Dr. 

 A. H. Thompson. "Additions to the List of Kansas Coleoptera," Prof. F. 

 H. Snow. "Are there Igneous Rocks in Cherokee County, Kansas?" E. 

 Haworth. "Notes on the Helodernia suspedum (Cope)," Prof. F. H. Snow. 

 "List of Coleoptera taken in Galliuas Canon, N. M., in 1882," Prof F. H. 

 Snow. "List of Lepidoptera taken in Gallinas Canon, N. M., in 1882," 

 Prof. F. H. Snow. "The Pictured Rocks of Pipe Creek," Silas C. Mason. 

 "On some American Species of Cyclops," Prof F. W. Cragin. "Observa- 

 tions on Comet 'B,' 1882," Prof H. S. S. Smith. "Observations on the 

 Nesting Habits of the Guillemots at Bird Rock," Col. N. S. Goss. "Proto- 

 zoan Remains in Kansas Chalk," Prof G. E. Patrick. "Las Vegas Min- 

 eral Waters," Prof J. T. Lovewell. " Standard Time," Prof. H. S. S. Smith. 

 "A Plea for our Little Birds," Col. N. S. Goss. "Pleistocene Foot-Prints," 

 Col. Henry luraan. " Cremation," Dr. W. S. Newlon. 



The following proceedings of the Academy are deemed of general interest: 

 It was voted that each year hereafter it shall be the duty of the chairman of 

 each commission to present a brief report upon the progress of his depart- 

 ment of science during the year; and that the President shall deliver a public 

 address on the evening of one of the days of the meeting at the expiration 

 of his term of office. 



