2 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
the following, who are to serve during the year and use their influ- 
ence in securing desirable members: 
E. B. Knerr, for Atchison. 
D. H. Otis, for Manhattan. 
EK. H.S. Bailey, for Lawrence. 
A, W. Jones, for Salina. 
F. W. Bushong, for Emporia. 
GC. E. Becker, for Ottawa. 
CG. S. Parmenter, for Baldwin. 
G. P. Grimsley, for Topeka. 
An invitation was extended to the Academy to visit the university 
chapel exercises at eight o’clock A.M. next day. 
The following papers were then read and discussed : 
5. Some notes on birds in southern Kansas. J. R. Mead. (Read 
by the Secretary, in the absence of the author. ) 
6. A list of birds taken in Mexico and Central America by Col. N, 
S. Goss, with notes on localities. D. E. Lantz. 
B. B. Smyth presented the report of the Board of Curators, as 
follows: 
Your Board of Curators has the honor to report that a few additions of min- 
erals representing economic products of the state, such as silica from Ford, Sher- 
man, Decatur, and Cheyenne counties, ocher from Cherokee county, and zinc 
from Labette county, have been added to the museum. There has also been 
added a small collection of fossil leaves from the Dakota Cretaceous of Ellsworth 
county, collected this year by J. W. Beede. Your Curators have been given by 
the state executive council the care and custody of the Goss Ornithological Col- 
lection, and have taken steps to have the collection cleaned up and properly 
arranged. For this purpose Prof. D. E. Lantz was recommended to the execu- 
tive council, and he was employed by them during the month of September reno- 
vating and rearranging the collection. On the conclusion of the rearrangement 
of the collection the room was reopened with appropriate ceremonies. The ap- 
pointment of your Curators as curators of the Goss Ornithological Collection 
shows the esteem in which the Academy is held by the administration. 
e B. B. SmyrTu, 
J. W. Breps, 
A. H. THoMmpson, 
; Curators. 
On motion, the report was adopted. ; 
On motion, a committee was appointed for the purpose of securing 
proper legislation to obtain for the Academy the space necessary for 
making a suitable exhibit of the museum and library of the Academy 
in the state-house. By a vote of the Academy, D. E. Lantz, L. E. 
Sayre and 8. W. Williston were made this committee. ; 
The Board of Curators was requested to advise the best manner 
of arranging the library and museum specimens, and make a written 
report to the executive committee before the next annual meeting of 
the Academy. 
