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OFFICERS FOR 1890. 
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Kansas (.Tty, NovE.Mi5Eit, 1S90. 
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PlLSBRY'S Nomenclature and check-list of 
North American Land Shells, lists 302 spe- 
cies, being all the species of land Pulmon- 
ata known to the author to inhabit America 
north of the Mexican boundary. 
I'ROF. L. L. Dyche of the Kansas State 
University, Lawrence, with Mr.E.L. Brown 
of Warren, Minn., as his assistant, is pros- 
pecting for '' big game" in the vicinity of the 
Lake of the Woods. With Prof. Dyche, the 
readers of The Naturalist are already well 
acquainted. Mr. Brown is a promising 
young taxidermist of several summers and 
winters experience in camp life, specimen 
hunting. We believe the Prof, could not 
have chosen a more suitable companioii, 
The Naturalist, Volume Five. 
With this number ends volume IV of The 
Nautralist. We have always put forth 
or best eflbrts, but circumstances most of 
the time were against us, and \i was only 
with a struggle that the paper was contin- 
ued before the public. We take this 
opportunity of thanking you for the 
kindness that has been extended to us in 
many ways. 
With the next issue will begin volume V. 
To the many supporters of the past we pledge 
our best efforts for the furure. Through 
the Academy of Science, of this city, we are 
able to continue upon a new basis. A guar- 
anteed fund has been pledged to insure the 
prompt appearance of The Naturalist, 
at a stated time each month, and its control 
will be entirely entrusted to a committee 
who will u'-e every effort to make it first- 
class in all respects. 
The Editorial and Business Management 
will receive careful consideration, and will 
be in the hands of men whose hearts as well 
as cash are interested in the cause of science. 
Mr. E. T. Keim will have charge of the 
Busines Management. R. B. Trouslot, who 
has so ably stood by The NATURALIST, 
publishing it during the past three years at a 
loss of considerable time and some money, 
will be editor-in-chief. 
Mr. E. Butts will have charge of the De- 
partment of Archreology . He has a 
large Archreological collection and an 
extensive library. Being a tireless work- 
er and a close student the readers of 
The Naturalist may expect much 
valuable information from this source. 
Mr. .Sid. J, Hare will be in charge of the 
Department of Palrentology, and will see that 
all articles intended for that department are 
up to the standard. 
David H. Todd will look after the Depart- 
ment of Minerology. Recent discoveries of 
new materials will be described. The 
mineralogist, miner aiid general public will 
find this department one of the interesting 
features of the paper. 
.Vside from the memljers of the Academy 
w ho may all be called contributors to our 
columns, the following have consented to 
give, from time to time, articles that are 
sure to Ije of interest to the readers of The 
Naturalist: 
Prof. Arthur Winslow, State Geologist. 
Hon. Warren Watson. 
Noble M. Eberhart, Ph. D. 
I'rof. R . R . Rowley. 
I'nif. Edu i;-, Walters, and others. 
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nture, as well as Science, are solicited. 
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N.\TURALis'r guaranteed for i8gl: assisted 
by so many able thinkers and writers, we 
trust our old subscribers will remain with us 
and that many new ones will be secured. 
Committee. 
Perk )UICALl.^■ during the past ten years 
there has gone the rounds of the newspapers 
an interesting story concerning the destruc- 
tion of the "last herd" of wild American 
Bison. The latest destruction meditated of 
this "last herd" emanates from Laramie, 
Wyoming, and consists of a trio of Lara- 
mie's sports, accompanied by a couple of 
expert lassoers. They have sighted their 
game and expect to return with a half dozen 
or more of the noble biutes. We wish them 
success, of course. Their object, the cap- 
ture of the Bison alive that their species 
may increase and be perpetuated would be a 
noble one were it pursued with no thought of 
gain. Full-blooded American Bison having 
an average price of $I2oo to $1500 each, the 
hunters, if successful, will be amply reward- 
ed, lho\igh there is considerable doubt about 
theirs being the "last Buffalo hunt in the 
United States" or even in Wyonaing. 
The regular meeting of the Kansas City 
Academy of Science was at the office of 
Frederick Mcintosh, Bayard Building, Tues- 
day evening, October, 14, 1890, President 
Walters in the chair. After disposing of the 
regular routine work, the Secretary presented 
an account of the receipts and expenditures 
attending the Academy's display at the 
Inter-State Fair which showed that all ex- 
penses were paid and a small balance left in 
the Treasury. The Academy received three 
first premiums, two second premiums and 
honorable mention. The display was very 
full and complete. 
Prof. Walters real a paper entitled "The 
Mission of Science." Upon the conclusion 
of the reading, a discussion of the paper en- 
sued. Remarks by Messrs. E. Butts, S. J. 
Hare, D. H. Todd, C. W. Dawson, E. t. 
Keim and F. W. Mcintosh. 
Mr. E. Butts presented the following 
names of fossils to be added to the list al- 
ready ])repared: 
268 — Aesiocrinus lykinsi. 
269 — Aesiocrinus basilius. 
270 — Agassiocrinus variabilis. 
271 — Archaeocidars triserrata. 
The program for the next meeting is 
Loess Formation, Sid. J. Hare; Elemen- 
tary Minerology, Dr. O. Bracklein. 
R. B. Trouslot, 
Secretary. 
Mk.WM. Palmer, of the National Muse- 
um, has recently returned from a protract- 
ed collecting tour on the Fur Seal Islands in 
Behring Sea. He has a large series of skins 
of the birds and mammals of these islands, 
but is especially happy in having secured a 
species of Cuckoo, not heretofore attributed 
to our country. 
Subscriptions are now in order for Vol 
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issue. 
Mansfield has sold his collection of an- 
tiquities for $20,0011. 
Ahout 2,000 species of insects, on an 
average, have been discovered yearly during 
the last century. 
The twenty-third annual meeting of the 
Kansas Academy of Science was held at 
Lawrence. Kas., November 5, 6 and 7. An 
interesting program was arranged, one of the 
features of which was a reception tendered 
visiting members by the University Science 
Club. 
An exchange calls this tlie cute age, from 
the fact that some furniture factories have 
workmen who imitate worm holes in furni- 
ture, to give it the appearance of antiquity. 
Afew dozen larva of (.!/a'yso/*«i/*?'(s femorata 
once introduced would soon antiquate the 
best piece of furniture ever made. 
Say, Mr. Pittsburg Z't*-pai''/( manl Please 
give us the name of the "planter" who lives 
"on a small island in the middle of the 
South Pacific" and keeps for a pet a sperm 
whale of great size. What's the name of the 
island or group? What kind of "chopped 
meat" does he feed him? Natives? 
.\n Ottawa, Kas., man has a rooster 
which is so large that it has to be helped 
onto its perch every night — Ex. 
Mrs Penschower, of Cloverdale, Cal., 
has raised a sunflower this .year that breaks 
all records. The stalk is six inches in di- 
ameter at the ground. It stands twelve 
feet high, and the flower measures nine feet 
around the outer edge. — E:r. 
The rooster was evidently made to e^t 
the sunflower. 
