AnedEinii nf SEiEnEES. 
Re-organized 1889 
OFFICERS FOR 1890. 
fROF. EDWIN WALTERS, President. 
E. BUTTS, ^'C8 President. 
K. B. TRO'USLOT, Recording Secretary. 
DAVID H. TODD, Corresponding Sec'y. 
EDWARD T. KEIM, Treasurer. 
FREDERICK McINTOSH, Librarian. 
SIDNEY HARE, Curator. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Edward T.Keim, 
Dr. Oscar Braecklein, 
Dr. Joseph. Sharp, 
Dr. R Wood Brown. 
Charles W. Dawson. 
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 
R, B. Trouslot, Edward T. Keim, 
Charles W, Dawson. 
Arthur Winslow, - State Geologist, 
Jefferson City, Mo. 
Reguliir incctiiiii.s tor the next, six iiioiitlis 
occuroii the t'ollii wi iif; ilntes ; Apiil s, 32; May 
8, 20; June A, 17, J.ilv 1, Ij, 'fl; Au^mimi 1->, iiS. 
We publish elsewhere ill tlii.s i^sne ;i 
brief biography of the fouiiiier of ihe 
Kansas City Academy af Science, Rev. 
J. D. Parker, and also an extract from a 
recent letter from him. For some time 
the Academy ha.< experienced coiisidi-ra- 
ble inconvenience for the want of a suit- 
able place uf meeting. It recently re- 
ceived a large donation of valuable sci- 
eiitetic works from Prof. Wm. Feriell, 
and is constantly receiving others from 
various sources, which, for want of room 
are temporarily boxed and stored. If 
the Acadi'iny had a building of its own, 
as sugge-ted by Prof. I'arkei, it (•< nld not 
only shelve its books, but there an^ thoii.— 
ands of valuable local specinn'iis that 
would imini'diately he ()lMeed in its eare. 
which. wh(m in-opt'rly arrangi-d. and ac- 
cessible to the ptiblic generally, would 
be of inesiimabh' beiietit not only to 
Kans.is (.'Ity, but to both Missouri and 
Kansas. 
State Geologist, Prof. Arthur \\ inslow 
says in his Bulletin No. l,page 1 1 : Every 
State should have, located at its center of 
industry and intellectual activity, a well 
equipped museum, under active manage- 
ment and responsive to ihe needs of the 
times. There should be exhibited and 
explained the natural features and the 
products ol the State, and there, should 
be systematically collected, recorded and 
preserved from injury and loss, all that 
mass of facts which constitute the basis 
of complete knowledge. 
Kansas City is a -'center of industry 
and intelectual activity" a railroad cen- 
ter as well and, given a suitable reposi- 
tory, many of the private collections of 
this vacinity, now scarcely accessible, 
would at once be donated to the Acade- 
my, where they could be examined and 
studied freely by all so inclined. To 
quote from Prof. Winslow again: The 
value of such an exhibit, when care, 
fullv arranged with a view to illus- 
trating definite occurences or pro- 
cesses, and when accompanied by all nec- 
essary charts and diagrams, can hardly 
be overestimated. 
The sugsjestion of a buikling, made by 
Prof Parkei-, has been thought and talked 
of bj' various members of the Academy, 
at various times and will, we trust, be 
acted upon in the near future, in such a 
vigorous maimer that the end desired 
will be fully realized. 
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