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Prof, J. T. Love well, Topeka. The committee further recommended that the 
president fill out the appointment of commissions. 
The report of the committee was accepted, and the new officers were de- 
clared elected. 
Robert Hay, of Junction City, made a verbal report of his geological and 
palseontological researches in Norton County. Mr. Hay spent the greater part 
of the past summer in that county, engaged in his scientific researches, and has 
made quite a curious and valuable collection of fossils and minerals. Chief 
among the fossils are portions of a mastodon. Many of the bones are in an ex- 
celleat state of preservation. Several varieties of chalk were also exhibited. 
Professor Cragin reported on the alcoholic specimens in the State Museum, 
and said that better accommodations would be furnished the Academy for their 
specimens in the future, as Secretary Sims of the State Board of Agriculture had 
promised to provide all necessary cases and jars, and the alcohol needed. 
Professor Snow moved that the curators make a report on the condition of 
the museum and the necessary changes, before the close of the meeting. 
The motion was carried, and Secretary Popenoe followed with a report on 
the library. On motion he was authorized to make a purchase of the missing 
volumes or sets, of the different States and societies. 
At this point the new president. Dr. R. J. Brown, was escorted to the stand 
by Messrs. Snow and Savage, and Professor Snow made a short speech intro- 
ducing him. 
Dr. Brown responded and in doing so gave a brief history of the society 
and its past work, and stated that under his administration the enthusiasm and 
interest should not be allowed to flag. He believed the society was on the right 
road to success, and by united effort great good could^ be accomplished. 
At the close of his speech the business was resumed, and Prof. Snow moved 
that twenty-five per cent of the annual dues be made a library fund. A general 
discussion of the library fund question followed. Senator Aller thought that the 
fund might be increased by increasing the membership of the society. To do 
this it would be necessary to hold the annual meetings in different places, instead 
of at Topeka every year. At the suggestion of the president it was found that 
the constitution provided for the annual meeting to be held in Topeka. 
A motion was then made to have a committee on new constitution appointed, 
and Messrs. Snow, Savage, and Popenoe were so appointed, and requested to 
report Friday. 
Prof. Cragin then stated that some steps should be taken by the society to 
secure the early publication of papers and the results of the Academy's researches 
from time to time, for the reason that several times in the past the Academy had 
lost the credit of certain scientific discoveries because their publication had been 
delayed until after somebody else had made the same discovery. Nothing else 
could be done, however, under the present circumstances, as the publications 
can only be made once in two years in conjunction with the reports of the State 
Board of Agriculture. 
