INDEX. 
Illinois, The Glacial Period in 219 
Illinois, Archaeological Find in Ill 
Improvements Recently Patented 582, 
510, 637, 7C4, 773 
Improvements in Village Architecture... 147 
Improvement of Pasture Lands of Far 
West 186 
Infectious Diseases 691 
Insects and Colored Flowers 546 
Jones, B. F., Hydraulic Elevators and 
Motors 140 
Judith Eiver Group, Exploration of 326 
Kansas Weather Service, 54, 120, 183, 
249, 306, 364, 442, 500, 575, 627, 695, 757 
Kansas Academy of Science, The 527, 698 
Kansas City Fossils 113 
Kansas City Tornado 121 
Kansas Fish Commission, The Work of..315 
Kansas, Lead and Zinc Eegion of 330 
Kansas Minerals 335 
Kaw Water at Lawrence 603 
Kepler's Third Law 693 
Knight, W. B., Street Pavements 630 
Knowles, E E., An Element of French 
Literature 512 
Knowles, E. E., Pere Hyacinthe and Cath- 
olicism 217 
Knowles, E. E., The Public School Pro- 
blem 19 
Knowles, E. E., The Dramatic Profession.127 
Knowles, E. E., Nature and Existence of 
Matter... 223 
Knowles, E. E., Spiritus Mundi 316 
Knauss, Warren, A New Mineral to Cen- 
tral Kansas 602 
Knauss, Warren, The Coleoptera of Kan- 
sas , 733 
Larkin, E. L., A Colossal Engine at Work 
for Man 96 
Larkin, E. L., Absolute Attraction of 
Matter 177 
Larkin, E. L., Kepler's Third Law 493 
Larkin, E. L., The Sun's Corona 352 
Larkin, E. L., Velocity.— I 764 
Lake-Dwellers of Venezuela, The 486 
Lead and Zinc Eegion of Missouri and 
Kansas 330 
Letter from Pleasant Hill, Mo 430 
Letter from West Chester, Pa 429 
Letter from Ft. McKavett 103 
Letter from Chihuahua 104 
Letter from Prof. C. W. Pritchett 564 
Letter from New Mexico 155 
Letter from Prof. S. A. Maxwell.. 679 
Life on the Planets ..474 
Lovewell, J. T., Kansas Weather Service, 
54, 120, 183, 249, 306, 314, 442, 500, 575, 
625, 695, 757 
Louisiana, First Geological Exploration 
in 679 
Lykins, W. H. E., Kansas City Fossils... 113 
Mackay-Bennett Marine Cable 448 
Man of the Future, The 161 
Man, Origin of the White 166 
Manner of Calculating True Time 44 
Manufacture and Durability of Eoofing- 
Slate 669 
Mason, Otis T., Notes from the Cradle of 
Civilization 661 
Mastodon Bones in Illinois 351 
Mastodon Eemains in Missouri... 615 
Mastodon, A Monster 567 
Maxwell, S. A 678 
McCarty, E. J., Meteors 91 
Memory o 616 
Memphis, Sewerage System of 633 
Meteors 91 
Mexico, Eailways in 383 
Mines of Old Mexico 58 
Mining Interests, Law AflPectiug 118 
Missouri, History of Eailroads in 168 
Missouri Eiver Mounds from a Geologi- 
cal Standpoint , 290 
Missouri Eiver, Age of 25 
Museum of Naples 389 
Native Copper, Genesis of 457 
Nature Studies for the Young 10 
New Mineral to Central Kansas 602 
New Mexico, Letter from 155 
New Theory of Dew 628 
New Zealand, Transit of Venus in 588 
Ohio Eiver, Prevention of the Floods of 
the 740 
Old Man of Hoy 645 
Old Maps 56, 114 
Oration on Prof. Henry 3 
Oregon, Explorations in Northeastern 674 
Oregon, The Fossil Fields of Southern. ...596 
Origin and History of Money 316, 380 
Origin of the White Man....' 166 
Overflows, Freshets and 231 
Outlet, The Atchafalaya 117 
Palisa, Discovery of the Asteroid 568 
Panama Canal, Eeport on the 267 
Panama Canal, Progress of the 743 
Parker, Eev. J. D., The Bacon Philoso- 
phy 261 
Parker, Eev. J. D., Letter from Ft. Mc- 
Kavett 103 
Parker, Eev. J. D., History of the Kansas 
Academy of Science 698 
Parker, Eev. J. D., Practical Hints Ee- 
garding Tornadoes 357 
Pasture-Lands in the Far West, Improve- 
ment of the 186 
Patents, Eeeent Improvements.. 510, 582 • 
637, 704, 773 
Paton, Prof. E. S. G., The Smoke Nuis- 
ance 477 
Paving, The Question of Street... 272, 543, 
630, 631 
Petroleum as an Insecticide 447 
Persepolis ; _..; 382 
Pere Hyacinthe and Catholicism 217 
Phenomena of Metalliferous Deposits 211 
Philosophy 223, 261, 553 
