698 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
by said director and i,ooo copies delivered to the Secretary of State, to be 
by him distributed in the same manner as other State documents. 
Sec. 4. — That there is appropriated the sum of $1,000 annually, or so much 
thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of meeting the actual expenses in 
carrying out the provisions of this measure ; but no part of said sum shall be used 
in payment of salaries to any officer or officers, except for clerk hire and upon 
the order of said director. 
Sec. 5. — This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take efi"ect 
and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Leader and the 
Iowa State Register, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. — N. Y. Herald. 
HISTORY. 
ORIGIN OF THE KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
JOHN D. PARKER, U. S. A. 
When I was called in April, 1867, to Lincoln College, Topeka, there was 
no scientific association in Kansas, and no general interest in science apparent 
in the State. The people of Kansas had suffered intensely in the border strife fol- 
lowed by the civil war, of which at Topeka, there were still evidences in the 
rifle-pits along the southern edge of the town, and in the palisades still standing 
at the intersection of Kansas Avenue and Sixth Street. 
Prof. B. F. Mudge, of the Kansas Agricultural College, had published a 
report on the geology of the State, and another report had been published by 
Prof. G. C. Swallow, late of the University of Missouri ; Prof. Frank H. Snow 
had recently been called to the University of Kansas. Major F. Hawn, of 
Leavenworth, was working on the meteorology of the State. These scientists 
and some others were pursuing various lines of scientific investigation, but there 
was no organization to bring them together to secure the results which flow from 
association. 
Impressed with the necessity of some society to accomplish this purpose, I 
determined if possible, to organize a State scientific association. After agitating 
the matter for several months, and not meeting with any encouragement at 
Topeka, I wrote to Prof. B. F. Mudge, who replied that his heart was with me 
in the work, but he feared it was too early in the history of the State to organize 
such a society. Accepting an invitation to visit him during the long vacation, 
I spent three memorable weeks at his home in Manhattan, when we discussed 
very thoroughly, during our scientific rambles in the neighborhood, the subject 
of a State scientific association. Before my return Prof. Mudge had promised to 
go into the new movement. 
