Excerpt from Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 27: Contains a List of Officers and Past Presidents; Membership List January 1, 1915; Minutes of Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting; President's Address; Some Papers Read; December 22 and 23, 1914 Section 1. This association shall be called the Kansas Academy of Science. Sec. 2. The objects of this Academy shall be to increase and diffuse knowledge in the various departments of science. Sec. 3. Members of this Academy shall consist of two classes, active and honorary (including associate). Active members may be annual or life members. Annual members may be elected at any meeting of the Academy, and shall Sign the constitution and pay a fee of one dollar and annual dues of one dollar; but the secretary and treasurer shall be exempt from the payment of dues during the years of their service. Any person who shall at one time contribute twenty dollars to the funds of this Academy may be elected a life member of the Academy, free of assess ment. Any member who has paid dues to the Academy for ten con secutive years, or who has been legally exempt during any portion of that time, may be elected a life member on the payment of ten dollars. Any member who has been a member of this Academy in good standing for twenty years may be elected a life member without payment of fur ther fees or dues. Honorary members may be elected on account of special prominence in science, on the written recommendation of two members of the Academy. In any case, a two-thirds vote of members present Shall elect to membership. Applications for membership in any of the foregoing classes Shall be referred to a committee on applications for membership, who shall consider such application and report to the Academy before the election. Sec. 4. The officers of this Academy shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting, and shall consist of a president, two vice presidents, a secretary. And a treasurer, who Shall perform the duties usually pertain ing to their respective offices. The president, secretary and treasurer shall constitute an executive committee. The secretary shall have charge of all the books, collections and material properly belonging to the Academy. 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.