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(8) Unfinished business. 



(9) New business. 



(10) Miscellaneous business. ^ 



(11) Election of officers. 



(12) Election of Fellows. 



(13) Election of Members. 



(14) Program. 



(15) Adjournment. 



11. The President shall appoint at each meeting three mem- 

 bers of the Academy not otherwise officers who shall audit the 

 accounts of the treastu'er and report before the adjournment of 

 the meeting. 



INTRODUCTION 



A large number of papers listed in the programs have not 

 been published in these proceedings. Practically all of the papers 

 dealing with Geology have been published elsewhere, or are in 

 course of revision for publication. The same is true of several 

 papers in other departments of science. The lateness of the 

 printing of these proceedings has caused some of the papers to be 

 out of date in so far as the subject matter is concerned, and have 

 not liecn included, although at the time of presentation some of 

 these papers were among the best included in the program. 



OKLAHOMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 

 C. W. Shannon 



The Oklahoma Academy of Science was organized December 

 30th and 31 st, 1909, at Oklahoma City. A call issued by H. H. 

 Lane and twenty other meml:)ers of the faculty of the University 

 of Oklahoma lirought together in Oklahoma City, twenty one 

 scientists from various State institutions and schools. That the 

 organizing body was a representative one and that the demand for 

 the movement was general is shown by the lists of persons at- 

 tending from widely separated parts of the State. The repre- 

 sentatives were distributed as follows : Norman 3, Stillwater 3, 

 Enid 2, Muskogee 1, Will)urton 1, Tonkawa 2, Medford 1, Ed- 

 mond 2, Alva 2, Durant 1, Tahlequah 1, Blackwell L Tulsa 1, 

 Frederick 1. 



This group of persons constituted the organizing body, 

 adopted a constitution and elected the officers for the first year. 

 Ten scientific papers were presented at this first meeting. The 



