534 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Prof. Snow read a short paper on "Octahedral Limonite," communicated 
by Prof. Erasmus Haworth, of Penn College, Iowa. I 
This was followed by a paper on "The Age of Kansas," by B. B. Smyth, 
of Topeka. He treated extensively the river systems and their geological char- 
acteristics. Also referred to the atmospheric and meteorologic phenomena, and 
gave an account of a sand-storm which occurred in 1880, during which fine sand 
was carried in clouds from Barton County to the eastern part of the State. 
The paper of J. C. Cooper, of Topeka, " Notes on Some Rare Minerals 
New to the United States," was called, but owing to author's absence, the paper 
was read by title only, and referred to the committee on publication. 
Afternoon Session. — At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Academy again 
convened, with Dr. Brown, the President, in the chair. The first hour was de- 
voted to business. The committee appointed on Wednesday to revise the con- 
stitution and by-laws of the society made its report. On motion the constitution 
was adopted as a whole. On motion it was unanimously decided to hold the 
next annual meeting at Lawrence in November, 1884. 
The curators of the Academy's museum then made a report, which was 
adopted. We can give but the portion containing the recommendations of the 
committee, viz.: — That the curators of the Academy be authorized as a special 
committee to proceed to thoroughly overhaul the collections now in the cases 
referred to ; to re-label and arrange such portions thereof as can be located with 
certainty, and to clean the shelves of such portions as have lost their value by 
reason of their localities being indeterminable; to gather together the scattered 
and unboxed material and arrange and label as much thereof as may be practi- 
cable, and to store away the balance of the material somewhere in the building 
where it may be found, should occasion ever require. In the prosecution of 
this work that the committee be allowed $15 for assistance and material, and that 
they be allowed to make any exchanges that they may consider practicable. 
"Your committee are informed that the present secretary of the Agricultural 
Board is willing to furnish additional cases for the use of the Academy's collec- 
tions and to turn over to the Academy all collections now in the possession of 
said board, which relate only to natural history subjects. 
Your committee would therefore recommend that the curator's committee be 
authorized to confer with the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, who is 
at present absent from the city, and arrange with him for the construction of 
such cases, and such arrangement of the same as may be found most expedient, 
and that such curators be authorized to receive from the Agricultural Board all 
such collections as such Board may consent to turn over to the Academy and to 
provide for the care of the same. 
A motion was then made to add Geo. S. Chase and Professor Cragin to the 
permanent board of curators, thus making five in all. 
The business session was then closed to make way for the regular pro- 
gramme. 
Prot. L. L. Dyche, of Lawrence, detailed the particulars of the finding of 
