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[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1272 



The constitution Tvas amended in several par- 

 ticulars relating principally to the admission of 

 new members. The office of corresponding secre- 

 tary was created. 



The following officers were elected for the en- 

 suing year: President — Dr. Orin Tugman, Univer- 

 sity of Utah; First Vice-president — C. F. Kor- 

 stian, U. S. Forestry Service, Ogden, Utah; Second 

 Vice-president — Dr. Prank L. West, Utah Agricul- 

 tural College, Logan; Permanent Secretary-Treas- 

 urer — ^A. O. Garrett, East High School, Salt Lake 

 City; Corresponding Secretary — C. Arthur Smith, 

 East High School, Salt Lake City; Counoillors-at- 

 large— Dr. W. D. Bonner, U. of U., Salt Lake City; 

 Professor Hyrum Schneider, U. of U., Salt Lake 

 City, and Dr. Newton Miller, U. of U., Salt Lake 

 City. 



The following papers were read at the conven- 

 tion: 



Harold E. Hagan, Utah Agricultural College, 

 Logan, "A history of entomology to 1800." 



Mark Anderson, Forest Service, Ogden, "Detec- 

 tion of overgrazing by indicator plants. ' ' 



Professor A. L. Beeley, Utah University, Salt 

 Lake City, "The problem of handedness." 



Professor Tracy H. Abell, Utah Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Logan, "Investigations in dehydration." 



Dr. M. C. Merrill, Utah Agricultural College, 

 Logan, "Distilled water as a medium for growing 



Dr. Frank L. West, Utah Agricultural College, 

 Logan, "Determination of probable temperature 

 at a particular place for a definite hour on a defi- 

 nite day." 



Dr. F. S. Harris and N. I. Butt, Utah Agricul- 

 tural College, Logan, "Alkali water for irriga- 

 tion. ' ' 



Professor D. W. Pittman, Utah Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Logan, "The relation of the method of 

 analyzing alkali soils to the limit of toxicity. ' ' 



Dr. Willard Gardner, Utah Agricultural College, 

 Logan, "A theory of capillary flow." 



Dr. Joseph P. Merrill, Utah University, Salt 

 Lake City, "Is electric air heating feasible ? ' ' 



Dr. W. D. Bonner, Utah University, Salt Lake 

 City, "Atoms and the atomic theory." 



C. F. Korstian, Forest Service, Ogden, "Evapo- 

 ration and soil moisture in relation to forest plant- 

 ing. ' ' 



C. Arthuk Smith, 

 Corresponding Secretary 



cultural College, Manhattan, April 18 and 19. 

 There was in attendance an excellent representa- 

 tion of the scientists of the educational institu- 

 tions, scientific professions and industries of the 

 state. 



' ' The cultivation of medicinal plants in the 

 United States, ' ' illustrated, was ■ the subject of 

 the presidential address, by Professor L. D. Haven- 

 hiU, of Kansas University. 



Professor Henry B. Ward, of the University of 

 Illinois, the visiting scientist, delivered two lec- 

 tures, one on ' ' The conservation of our aquatic re- 

 sources, " and the other on "Eesearch and recon- 

 struction," the latter to the faculty, students and 

 friends of the college as well. 



President W. M. Jardine addressed the academy 

 on the problems and aims of the Kansas Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, and described some of 

 the projects under way. 



Sixty-one papers were presented, either by title 

 or read, most of them reports of progress and ac- 

 complishment in research. 



A banquet was served during the evening of the 

 eighteenth which was attended by more than one 

 hundred persons. Dean L. E. Sayre, of Kansas 

 University, was toastmaster, and talks were made 

 by President Jardine, Professor Ward, Major E. L. 

 Holton, of the Bed Cross, and Representative 

 Hughbanks, of the Kansas legislature. 



The academy formally voted to accept the invi- 

 tation to affiliate itself with the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science according 

 to the plan previously published in Science. 



Dr. Robert K. Nabours, of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, and Dr. B. M. Allen, of Kansas University, 

 were elected president and first vice-president, re- 

 spectively, for the coming year. 



E. A. White, 

 Secretary 



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THE KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



The fifty-first annual meeting of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science was held at the State Agri- 



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