Excerpt from Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 20: Part II.; List of Officers, Past and Present; Membership List January 1, 1907; Sketch of the Academy; Constitution and by-Laws; Minutes of Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting; President's Address, and Some Papers Read During the past year we have received not less than 500 unbound vol umes, pamphlets, and parts of volumes, which are filed away and await the time for binding. Several hundred volumes are now in a greater or lesser state of completeness, and in some cases missing numbers will be difficult to secure. Some of them may be purchased, but it will require much correspondence, and will be impossible always to get complete sets, though we may have complete volumes. Over fifty bound volumes have come to us during the year, the larger portion of these being from the Smithsonian, and other government depart ments in Washington. Many of these are of great value, bulky, finely il lustrated, and would be a valuable acquisition for any library. Our library has a good many volumes in foreign languages, which will interest only a small number of our members, but it is important to have one collection in the state where these foreign books may be consulted. In government publications like those of the Smithsonian, of the Geo logical Survey, and of the Agricultural Department, our files are duplicated, both in the State Library and in the State Historical Society. The latter has the most complete collection found in our state-house of these books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.