8 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
the meeting of the State Teachers’ Association or immediately after; 
the exact dates to be announced later by the secretary. 
The reading of papers was then resumed: 
21. Some geometrical theorems, Arnold Emch. 
22. Notes on injurious insects, W. A. Snow. 
23. Notes on Kansas coleoptera, Warren Knaus. 
24. Restoration of saber-toothed cat from White River miocene, E. 
S. Riggs. | 
25. A theory of absorption spectra, A. S. Dunstan. 
26. Notes on discharge of Kansas river since 1881, E. C. Murphy. 
27. Geology of Shawnee county, J. W. Beede. 
28. Stratigraphy from Atchison to Washington counties, E. B. - 
Knerr. 
The committee on resolutions reported the following, which was 
adopted: 
Resolved, That the Kansas Academy of Science express to the faculty of Kan- 
sas University and friends their high appreciation of the kindness extended in the 
generous entertainment of the Academy and visitors; and to the science club 
sincere thanks for the very acceptable and suitable introduction into the myster- 
ies of the ‘“‘ It.”’ A. H. THompson, 
B. B. SmyruH, 
EK. B. Knerr, 
Committee. 
At the various sessions of this meeting, the following new mem- 
bers were duly elected: J. W. Stailey, Lawrence; Elam Bartholomew, 
Rockport; C. N. Gould, Maple City; W.G. Riste, Phillipsburg; C.S. 
Caldwell, Topeka; T. D. A. Cockerell, Las Cruces, N. M.; H. C. Welty, 
Topeka; E. E. Tyler, Lincoln, Neb.; T. M. Aderhold, Topeka; Chas. 
H. Sternberg, Lawrence; G. P. Grimsley, Topeka; W. R. Crane, Law- 
rence; W. N. Logan, Beloit: J. W. Wilson, Effingham; E. S. Riggs, 
Lawrence; Barnum Brown, Carbondale; Lottie E. Crary, Council 
Grove. 
On motion, the secretary was authorized to arrange the papers for 
next year’s meeting according to the departments of science of which 
they treat. 
The time for the hearing of papers having expired, the following 
were ordered, on motion, to be read by title: 
29. Notes on the evaporation from soil and sand, E..C. Murphy. 
30. Electric resonance in circuits possessing mutual induction, A. 
S. Dunstan. 
31. Simple sounds of the English ‘language, J. H. Carruth. 
32. Additions to Goss’s Revised Catalogue of Kansas birds, V. L. 
Kellogg. ; 
33. Germination of Commelina and Tradescantia, J. B. S. Norton. 
34, New fungi, Elam Bartholomew. 
