The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-27
SCIENTISTS MEET
The Kansas Academy to Hold a
Session at EmpOria.
One of the Features to Be a Re-
port on the Water Survey.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About so Papers From Noted
Authors to Be Read,
A Banquet Will Be rendered
the Guests Friday Night.

Emporia. Nov. 27.-The annua
meeting of the Kansas Academy OF
Science will be held at Emporia this
year beginning Thanksgiving evening
and continuing through Friday and
part of Saturday. The sessions will
be held at the science building of the
Kansas State Normal.
One of the especial features of the
meeting will be the report of progress
on the water survey of Kansas, by
N. H. Parker, United States hydrog-
rapher, and Professors Bailey, Hoad,
Bushong, Barber and Starin. On Fri
day evening the State Normal faculty
and Emporia members of the academy
will tender a banquet to the academy.
There are 81 scientific papers on
the program, and a supplemental pro-
gram of II papers has been sent to
the state printer, making total of
about so papers. The list of papers
is as follows:
Presidential address-'"The Value
of the Work of the Scientist to HUI
mainly" James A. Yates.
IS Chemical papers-"Natural Gas OBJ
tanned from Trees F. w. Bushong
and D. F. Mcfarland; Percentage of
Extractives in Certain Drugs and
Spices" L. E. Sayre; Public Health
and the Quality of Medicinal Prepara-
tions," L. E. Sayre; Progress of the
Survey of the Waters of Kansas
Chemical Work" Professors Bailey
and Bushong; meteorological Work, 81
Prof. Barber and Mr.. Starin; EN-
"Ffeld Work" H. N. Parker. assistant
photographer, U. S. G. s.; "Steel-
Hardening Minerals" j. G. Cooper;
"Gastric Ferments. DR.. c. F. Men
manidines," F. B. Dams and E. w.
Brown.
Geological Papers-'some Studies
in Dakota Fossil Plants A. w. Jones;
s s154in Of Glacial ndI Literature,
mails, Reptiles and Amphibians of the
Rosebud Indian Reservation, South
Dakota" Albert B. Reagan; my Ex-
petition to the Kansas Chalk. On My
Own Account and for the Tubingen
berg; "a Fossil Tooth And Other
Bones from Phillips County" ]. T.
Lovewell
Biological Papers Some Observa-
tions on the Food Habits of the Blue
jay" (Cyanocitta Cristata), L. L.
Dyche; "a Curious Impatiens," Grace
r. Meeker.
neutrality-suspicious. to the List
of Kansas Coleoptera," w. Knaus;
Notes On Coleoptera," w. Knaus;
''Eist of Co1eoptera Collected in New
Mexico in 1907" w. Knaus: Some
Photographs of Balsam Mounts of
Phengodes FusciceDs Secured From
Mcpherson. Kansas" w. Knaus:
Micro-Lepidoptera, Taken at Light at
MCPHERSON. Kansas. July and August
1907,''W. Knaus; 1.-The Stephylinidae.
Ecaphidiidae, Phalancridae, Coryloph-
Jade, Coccinellidae. Endomychiade
and Erotylidae of Kansas" W.
Knaus; "a Parasite on Eggs of Man.
tis.'' Mrs. Lumina c. r. Smyth; |
''Notes On PROTOCOL, Found in Central |
Park Lake. Topeka" Mrs. Lumina c. |
r. Smyth: "a New Species of Cam |
postona," F. F. Crevecoeur: "Obser- |
vations On Ants of Arizona And Their |
Auxiliary Captive Beetles Eugene |
G. Smyth.
General Biology - Antiquity of i
Mans bodybuilding Instincts" l.. c. /
Wooster.
Miscellaneous Papers-''Tuberculo-
s-s.~ .. r. Rogers; Man Abnormal,
J. NJ. McWharf; "Anthropology AS a |