SCIENTIFIC PAPERS BY ALFRED G. MAYOR 



(Arranged by himself) 

 1890 



1. Habits of the box tortoise. Popular Science Monthly, vol. 38, p. 60-65, 3 figs. 



1893 



2. Habits of the garter snake. Popular Science Monthly, vol. 42, p. 485-488, 4 figs. 



3. The radiation and absorption of heat by leaves. American Journal of Science, vol. 45, p. 340-346, 1 fig. 



1894 



4. An account of some medusas obtained in the Bahamas. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, 



vol. 25, p. 235-241, 3 pis. 



1896 



5. The development of the wing-scales and their pigment in butterflies and moths. Bulletin Museum Comp. 



Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 29, p. 209-236, 7 pis. 



1897 



6. On the color and color patterns of moths and butterflies. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard Col- 



lege, vol. 30, p. 169-256, 10 pis. 



7. A new hypothesis of seasonal dimorphism in lepidoptera. Psyche, vol. 8, p. 47-50; 59-62. 



8. On an improved heliostat invented by Alfred M. Mayer. American Journal of Science, vol. 4, ser. 4, 



p. 306-308, 2 figs. 



1898 



9. With Alexander Agassiz: On some medusa? from Australia. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard 



College, vol. 32, p. 15-19, 3 pis. 



10. With Alexander Agassiz: On Dactylometra. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 32, 



p. 1-11, 13 pis. 



1899 



11. With Alexander Agassiz: Aealephs from the Fiji Islands. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard 



College, vol. 32, p. 157-189, 17 pis., 146 figs. 



1900 



12. On the development of color in moths and butterflies. Woods Hole lectures, tenth lecture, p. 157-164. 



13. On the mating instinct inrnoths? Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 183-190; 



also in Psyche, 1900, vol. 9, p. 15-20. 



14. An Atlantic Palolo, Staurocephalus gregaricus. Bulletin Museum of Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, 



vol. 36, p. 1-14, 3 pis. 



15. Descriptions of new and little-known medusae from the western Atlantic. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. 



at Harvard College, vol. 37, p. 1-9, 6 pis. 



16. Some medusa? from the Tortugas, Florida. Bulletin Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 37, 



p. 13-82, 44 pis. 



1901 



17. The variations of a newly-arisen species of medusa. Science Bulletin, Museum Brooklyn Institute of Arts 



and Sciences, vol. 1, p. 1-27, 2 -pis. 



1902 



18. Effects of natural selection and race-tendency upon the color-patterns of Lepidoptera. Science Bulletin, 



Museum Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1, p. 31-86, 2 pis. 



19. The Atlantic Palolo. Science Bulletin, Museum Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1, p. 93-103, 



lpl. 



1903 



20. Some species of Partula from Tahiti, a study in variation. Memoirs Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard 



College, vol. 26, p. 117-135, 1 pi. 



21. With Alexander Agassiz: Medusa? of the tropical Pacific. Memoirs Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard 



College, vol. 26, p. 139-175, 13 pis. and 1 map. 



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