THIRTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. 3 
The following resolution was passed : 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Academy that steps be taken to arrange 
a series of lectures on scientific topics during the year, by members of the Acad- 
emy and others, in the Academy rooms or Representative hall in the state-house. 
Academy adjourned to meet at nine o’clock in the morning. 
OcTOBER 28. 
Academy assembled at nine o’clock A. M., with President Williston 
in the chair. 
The reading of papers was at once entered upon, and the following 
were heard : 
7. Relativity in science. EH. B. Knerr. 
8. Geological notes on Trego county and vicinity. J. W. Beede. 
9. Bibliography of Kansas ornithology, with a list of birds. D. 
K. Lantz. 
10. Therapeutical notes on Kansas plants. L. EH. Sayre. 
11. Monotropa hypopitys reported as new to Kansas. J. W. 
Bridwell. 
12. A vertebrate fossil from the Dakota group. C.5. Parmenter. 
13. Kansas Mosasauria. 8S. W. Williston. 
14. Some tracks from the Upper Carboniferous. C.S. Parmenter. 
15. A list of the Goss Ornithological Collection, being a first report 
of the Curator. B. B. Smyth. 
Academy adjourned to two o’clock P. M. 
Academy assembled at 2:15 o’clock p. M., with President Williston 
in the chair. 
On motion, the executive committee was made a committee on 
time and place for next meeting, it being understood that the com- 
mittee confer with the Kansas Academy of Language and Literature, 
with a view to holding the meeting for 1898 at the same time and 
place with that organization. 
The committee on necrology reported as follows: 
At the thirtieth annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, at its 
second session, an announcement was made of the death of its faithful and be- 
loved member, R. J. Brown, whose departure from this life so many institutions 
embracing public and philanthrophic work have keenly felt. The following item 
was adopted by the Academy and a copy ordered sent to the family of the de- 
ceased: R. J. Brown was a life member of the Kansas Academy of Science. In 
its early career he was most active and influential in its support. In its history 
his name will be handed down as one whose earnestness and self-sacrifice in sci- 
entific work have done much to stimulate research in the departments for which 
this organization stands preéminent in the state. 
S. W. Wittitston, President, 
E. B. Knerr, Secretary, 
L. E. Sayre, 
Committee. 
