TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
The Kansas Academy of Science convened for the opening session 
of its twenty-ninth annual meeting in the Y. M. C. A. room of Wash- 
burn College, Topeka, at 2:30 Pp. M., December 31, 1896. President 
D.S. Kelly in the chair. 
The following committees were appointed by the president : 
Program and press: E. B. Knerr, EK. Miller, J. T. Willard. 
Membership: B. B. Smyth, J. W. Beede, J. W. Wilson. 
Nominations: L. E. Sayre, A. H. Thompson, A. 8. Hitchcock. 
Resolutions: S. W. Williston, A. S. Hitchcock, A. J. Stout. 
Necrology ; B. B. Smyth, E. H.S. Bailey. 
Time and place for next meeting: E. H.S. Bailey, J.T. Lovewell, 
E. B. Knerr, A. J. Smith, J. T. Willard. 
The secretary called the roll of members and noted those present. 
The secretary read the correspondence for the past year. 
Treasurer Sayre read his report, which was referred to an auditing 
committee, as follows: F. O. Marvin, F. W. Bushong, J. T. Willard. 
The reading of papers was then entered upon : 
1. Barite nodules in wood, E. B. Knerr. 
2, An electric method for determining the mechanical equivalent 
of heat, J. T. Lovewell. 
3. On the Pleistocene deposits of Kansas, S. W. Williston. 
4, The timbered mounds of the Kaw reservation. C. N. Gould. 
5. Alkyl hypobromites, F. W. Bushong. 
On motion, Rey. J. D. Parker was made an honorary member. 
President Fairchild, of the State Agricultural College, spoke in the 
interests of a measure in the United States Congress, looking to- 
ward a more satisfactory correlation of the work of the national De- 
partment of Agriculture, and he desired the codperation of the 
Academy. 
On motion, the chair appointed a committee of five to prepare a 
proper resolution, viz.: E. H.S. Bailey, J.T. Willard, E. B. Knerr, 
F. O. Marvin, A. S. Hitchcock. This committee reported subse- 
quently, as follows : 
Resolved, That we recognize the importance of a more stable organization of 
the divisions of scientific research in the United States Department of Agricul- 
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