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to the people of Kansas. Lovers of science in almost every line of investigation 
have come forward and gladly carried on the work of the Academy, making 
original contributions in almost every department of science that have been 
known throughout the scientific world. But while we greet this ever increasing 
number of scientists, and give them all honor for their invaluable contributions 
to science, let us never forget the importance of the work wrought by Professors 
Mudge and Snow, in the early history of the Society. 
The subsequent action of the Legislature in making the Society a State insti- 
tution, and in giving it rooms in the Capitol building, was unsolicited, but it 
was a well deserved recognition by the State of the valuable but uncompensated 
services rendered to science by members of the Academy. 
In this connection, I may be pardoned for saying, that the ultimate success 
attendant upon the organization of the Kansas Academy of Science, gave me 
encouragement, when I moved to Kansas City, to try and repeat the work there 
which I had been the humble instrument, with the assistance of others, in doing 
in Kansas. For seven years, I was permitted to work on, amidst the whirl of a 
large and growing city, in discouragement, and sometimes in financial embarrass- 
ment that almost paralyzed my efforts, in striving and assisting to lay the founda- 
tions of the Kansas City Academy of Science, whose interests are so intimately 
interwoven with those of the Kansas Academy of Science. Life has indeed been 
a hard struggle, and I have failed to realize many of my early ideals ; but if the 
people if Kansas and Kansas City will continue to cherish these Academies so 
that they shall become a blessing to multitudes in coming years, and if these 
Academies will remember that they are closely related in origin, interest and 
work, and ever bear toward each other those fraternal relations which should 
characterize scientific brethren, I shall be recompensed beyond any expression 
of words. 
BOOK NOTICES, 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia : Oc- 
tavo, pp. 128. Philadelphia, 1883. 
This is Part II, June to October, 1883, and contains the results of much 
original investigation in different fields by such well known students of natural 
science as Professors Cope, Leidy, McCook, Heilprin, Meehan, Rand, and oth- 
ers. This society has been in active existence for nearly three-quarters of a 
century and has published many volumes of valuable transactions, etc. Its quar- 
terly volumes of Proceedings are edited under the direction of the Publication 
Committee, by Dr. Edward J. Nolan, to whom all applications for them and all 
other publications of the Academy should be made. 
