TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
The Kansas Academy of Science convened for the twenty-eighth 
meeting in the lecture room of Snow Hall, Kansas University, Law- 
rence, January 2, 1896, at 3 p.m. President Knaus in the chair. 
The secretary called the roll, and the following members responded to 
their names: E. B. Knerr, Warren Knaus, D. E. Lantz, E. C. Murphy, 
E. Miller, L. E. Sayre, F. H. Snow, T. H. Dinsmore, jr., W. A. Snow, 
D.S. Kelly, A. H. Thompson, B. B. Smyth, J. T. Lovewell, E. Ha- 
worth, J. T. Willard. A number of visitors were present, and before 
adjournment other members appeared, having arrived on later trains. 
Committees were appointed by President Knaus, as follows : 
On program and press: L. E. Sayre, T. H. Dinsmore, jr., W. A. Snow. 
On membership: E. C. Murphy, D. 8. Kelly, E. Miller. 
On resolutions: A. H. Thompson, E. B. Knerr, B. B. Smyth. 
On nominations: F. H. Snow, S. W. Williston, J. T. Lovewell. 
On time and place for next meeting: E. Haworth, D. E. Lantz, 
J. T. Willard. 
Secretary read the correspondence which had accumulated during 
the year. 
President Knaus made a verbal report on the printing of volume 
xiv of the Transactions. 
In the evening President Knaus delivered the retiring president’s 
address, which was highly appreciated by the members present, inas- 
much as the history of the Academy was reviewed, and the more im- 
portant papers that have thus far been presented were classified and 
commented upon. j 
After the president’s address was concluded, various topics of a 
business interest to the Academy were discussed, chiefly relative to 
the division of the Academy into sections, appropriations by the leg- 
islature, the preparation of monographs on the natural resources of 
Kansas. 
A. H. Thompson read a paper (1) “On the publication by the 
Academy of scientific monographs on the natural resources of 
Kansas.” 
On motion, the chair appointed as committee on monographs, A. 
H. Thompson, E. Haworth, S. W. Williston. 
