THE KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. • 451 



electricity, by processes of oxidation, by the evaporation of water, by the 

 process of vegetable growth. Tc is more abundant in winter than in sum- 

 mer. It is more abundant in Kansas than in many of the states further east. 



Among the persons who have assisted Prof. Kedzle during the past year 

 in his observations on this subject, he mentioned the following : B. B. 

 Smythe, of Ellinwood ; Prof. J. B. Dunbar, Topeka ; Dr. A. H. Thompson, 

 Topeka ; W. H. Carruth, and J. H. Long, Lawrence, and L, B. Hurdt, Can- 

 ada. He described the tests employed in detecting ozone in the atmos- 

 phere and determining the quality, and mentioned many circumstances- 

 under which the existence or absence of the substance may have a relation 

 to conditions of health. 



The paper elicited some discussion and comment, bringing out the idea- 

 that observations should be made in other directions. Such, for instance,. 

 as the state of the barometer, thermometer, anemometer and not least, the 

 forms and types of disease prevailing in the community at the present timet 



F. Ct. Adams, of Topeka, read a paper on the subject : " How to Popu-^ 

 1 arize Practical Science." He suggested that the academy should take acr- 

 tion to procure a wider dissemination of the results of the labors of its 

 members. He said he did not mean to depreciate what the Academy has 

 already done to sj^read a knowledge of scientific facts among the people. 

 That looking over the pai:)er8 which have been read before the Academy 

 and published as its transactions from je&r to year, during, the nine years 

 since its organization, it is abundantly evident that much has been con- 

 tributed of value to the public, and calculated to popularize scientific study 

 and investigation. There has gone out for popular instruction, much in- 

 formation as to the resources of the state in the various departments of 

 natural history, as to its mineral wealth, its climatic characteristics, etc. 

 Yet the conviction must rest in the minds of all that a still wider diffu- 

 sion of benefits from the work of this body would be desirable. 



It is through the newspaper press and the school room that he would 

 suggest that this greater work be promoted. He said to the members, if 

 hitherto the journalist has drawn, ti'om the results of your labors, the 

 means to extend the scope of his work, and if the teacher has found in 

 what you have brought in here means for the better instruction of his pu- 

 pils, is it not clearly desirable that these channels of public instruction 

 should be enlarged; that by direct and systematic action the members of 

 this body should not only be investigators of scientific truth, but through 

 three channels promulgators of elementary science among the people. 



The newspaper and the school room ai-e the great avenues of thought 

 and instruction. The journalist eagerly grasps for his columns whatever is 

 l^resented, prepared for the comprehension and interest of the common mind 

 and within the limits of space which he can spare. The newspaper moulds 

 and reflects public sentiment. The teacher brings into his class room 

 whatever public sentiment compels him to impart as instruction. It re- 

 mains then onlv for scientific men to make science readable to the common 



