8 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
17. The prairie-dog on Nantucket island. F. H. Snow. 
The proposed amendment of section 3 of the constitution was dis- 
cussed, with the result that the section was amended to read as fol- 
lows: 
Src. 3. Members of the Academy shall consist of two classes, active and hon- 
orary (including associate). Active members may be annual or life members. 
Annual members may be elected at any meeting of the Academy, and shall sign the 
constitution and pay a fee of one dollar and annual dues of one dollar; but the sec- 
retary, treasurer and librarian shall be exempt from the payment of dues during 
the years of their service. Any person who shall at one time contribute twenty dol- 
lars to the funds of this Academy may be elected a life member of the Academy, 
free of assessment. Any member who has paid dues to the Academy for ten con- 
secutive years, or who has been legally exempt during any portion of that time, 
may be elected a life member on the payment of ten dollars. Any person who 
has been a member of this Academy in good standing for twenty years may be 
elected a life member without the payment of further fees or dues. 
The remainder of the section remains in force. 
It was voted that the Academy adjourn sine die at the close of this 
evening's session, 
Adjourned to meet in the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. at Washburn 
College at eight o’clock Pp. M. 
EIGHT O'CLOCK P. M. 
Academy convened, with President Lantz in the chair. 
The following new members were elected: Mrs. A. H. Merrell, To- 
peka; C. A. Kraus, Lawrence; F. J. Titt, Topeka. 
The following were elected to life membership under the amend- 
ment to section 3 of the constitution, each having been a member of 
the Academy for twenty or more years continuously: F, H. Snow, 
Lawrence; A. H. Thompson, Topeka; J. T. Lovewell, Topeka; J. R. 
Mead, Wichita; E. A. Popenoe, Berryton. 
It was voted, in the cases of Peter McVicar and S. W. Williston, 
who were early members of long standing but who allowed several 
years to lapse before they again became active members, that they be 
elected life members, all fees being remitted. 
Dr. A. H. Thompson and Professor Lovewell favored the Academy 
with reminiscences of early days. 
The committee on resolutions reported as follows: 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Kansas Academy of Science be tendered to ’ 
President Fred. Wellhouse and Secretary W. H. Barnes, of the Kansas Horticul- 
tural Society, for the use of their rooms in the state-house for the meeting of the 
Academy, and to the authorities of Washburn College, for the use of a room in 
which the closing session was held. L. C. Wooster, 
L. L. DycHe, 
J. R. Meap, | 
Committee. 
It was voted that the Academy appropriate funds, not to exceed 
