PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES. 33 
I have watched the workmen, during the past year, as they have put the fin- 
ishing decorations upon the walls of the new library room, on the third floor of 
the north wing of this building. What amagnifigent library room that will make, 
if properly furnished. Three tiers of steel library stacks, each seven feet high, on 
each side of that room, will accommodate 250,000 volumes and leave ample room 
for the reading public, by using the two connecting rooms. Here is room for all 
these libraries for many years to come. 
Members of the Kansas Academy of Science, if we can secure the favor of the 
legislature at its coming session, so as to pass some measure like the one I have 
outlined, we will have conferred a favor not only upon ourselves as recipients, but 
upon the great institutions of the state and upon allour people. But whether we 
succeed or fail, the Academy itself will be benefited by the interest aroused by 
our efforts, and they will bear fruit in due season. 
