CONTENTS. 
Transactions : 
Annual Address by the President: 
“The Influence of Applied Science,” 
J. C. Nagle. . 1-16 
“A Consideration of S. B. Buckley’s ‘North American 
Formicidse/ ” 
William Morton Wheeler 17-31 
“The Silt Problem in Connection with Irrigation Storage 
Reservoirs,” 
J. C. Nagle 33-46 
“The Water Power of Texas,” 
Thomas IT. Taylor 47-94 
“Reptiles and Batrachians of McLennan County, Texas,” 
J ohn K. Strecker, Jr. 95-101 
“The Red Sandstone of the Tiabolo Mountains, Texas,” 
E. T. Tumble 103-105 
“Cretaceous and Later Rocks of Presidio and Brewster 
Counties,” 
E. T. Tumble 107-114 
“A Preliminary Report on the Austin Chalk Underlying 
Waco and Adjoining Territory,” 
John K. Prather. 115-122 
Proceedings of the Academy for 1901 : 
Officers for 1901-1902 124 
Titles of Paper Read Before the Academy from January 18, 
1901, to Tecember 27, 1901 125-126 
In Memoriam 127 
List of Patrons and Fellows 129-130 
List of Members 130-132 
Constitution 
133-138 
