Transactions of the ... Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, Band 16

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Kansas Publishing House, 1899
Vols. for 1881/82- include the Report of the secretary.
 

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Seite 34 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Seite 4 - Clapp, the report was adopted, and the Secretary was instructed to cast the ballot of the Association for the gentlemen as nominated.
Seite 288 - No. 1125. An investigation on the Influence upon the Vital Resistance of Animals to the Micro-organisms of Disease brought about by Prolonged Sojourn in Impure Atmosphere.
Seite 306 - The Invertebrata of the Laramie and Cretaceous Rocks of the vicinity of the Bow and Belly rivers and adjacent localities in the North-west Territory J
Seite 8 - Willistoii, who were early members of long standing but who allowed several years to lapse before they again became active members, that they be elected life members, all fees being remitted. Dr. AH Thompson and Professor Lovewell favored the Academy with reminiscences of early days. The committee on resolutions reported as follows : Resolved, That the thanks of the Kansas Academy of Science be tendered to President Fred. Wellhouse and Secretary WH Barnes, of the Kansas Horticultural Society, for...
Seite 67 - Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories," Vol. II. to the best authenticated reports of the seaserpent. Among other possibilities it has been suggested that some animal believed to be extinct had really lived over to the present day. Now there are a few waifs, spared from the wrecks of ancient faunas, stranded on the...
Seite 17 - A perfect answer is that a great many ought to be deterred. A growing multitude is crowding in who are not fit to be lawyers, who disgrace the profession after they are in it, who in a scramble after a livelihood are debasing the noblest of professions into the meanest of avocations...
Seite 62 - ... throughout the greater part of this distance. This terrace is prominent just west of Elk Falls, from which place the limestones are named, from whence it passes southward with many deep sinuosities around the head of Salt creek, North Cana, Middle Cana, and Cedar creek, and leaves the state west of Elgin. It is seen very prominent at Rogers, about five miles west of Sedan. ' Northward from Elk Falls it reaches up Elk river almost to Howard, veers eastward again on the highland beween Elk river...
Seite 56 - ... alternating with beds of sandstone and shale. The unequal yielding of these materials to erosive agencies has produced in general a terraced surface, the limestones protecting the escarpments while the shales and sandstones below have been carried away by the streams.! The inclination of the strata has produced a gradual slope (back slope) from the top of one escarpment to the base of the next higher. Not infrequently a stream cuts off a portion of an escarpment producing a mound or ridge, and...
Seite 225 - Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacific ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. By order of the government of the United States. Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Esquire.

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