14 SEVENTH REPORT. 



LIST OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL 



MEETING OF THE MICHIGAN ACADEMY 



OF SCIENCE. 



Presidential Address — Natural Resources, their Conservation and Compensation, for 

 Necessary Consumption, One Feature of which is a Scientific Search for Substitutes. 

 A. C. Lane, State Geologist. 



Annual Address — Old and New Hypotheses of the Earth's Origin. Prof . T. C. Chamberlin, 

 University of Chicago. 



1. Outline of a Course in Rural Sociology. Kenyon L. Butterfield, President of State 



Agricultural College, Rhode Island. 



2. Syllabus for an Elementary Course in Economics. W. O. Hedrick, Agricultural 



College. 



3. Syllabus for a Four-year Course in Live Stock Husbandry. R. S. Shaw, Agricultural 



College. 



4. Syllabus for a Four-year Course in Horticulture. U. P. Hedrick, Agricultural College. 



5. Social Phases of Agricultural Education. J. L. Snyder, President of Agricultural 



College. 



6. Outline of Topics in Horticulture for some Grades of Common Schools. U. P. Hedrick, 



Agricultural College. 



7. The Place of Agriculture in the Rural Schools. Clarence E. Holmes, Superintendent 



.of State School for Blind, Lansing. 



8. School Gardens. F. L. Keeler, Mt. Pleasant. 



9. Some Experience in the Management of School Gardens. J. B. Dandeno, Agricul- 



tural College. 



10. The Preparation of Teachers for the Rural Common Schools. Ernest Burnham, 



Kalamazoo. 



11. The Rural School Museum. C. W. Garfield, Grand Rapids. 



12. Planning Courses for Rural Schools. L. H. Bailey, Dean of Agricultural School, 



Cornell University. 



13. Some Lessons Concerning Soils for the Common School. Joseph A. Jeffery, Agri- 



cultural College. 



14. Geotropic Response of Stems and Roots at Various Angles of Inclination, (10 minutes). 



F. C. Newcombe, Ann Arbor. 



15. Color Stimuli and Plant Functions, (10 minutes). J. B. Dandeno, Agricultural 



College. 



16. A Canker of the Yellow Birch Accompanied by a Nectria, (10 minutes). J. B. Pollock, 



Ann Arbor. 



17. A study of the effect of dilute solutions of Hydrochloric Acid upon the Radicles of 



Corn Seedhngs, (5 minutes). F. A. Loew, Agricultural College. 



18. The Toxic Action of Copper Sulphate upon Certain Algae, in the Presence of Foreign 



Substances, (5 minutes). Ellen B. Bach, Agricultural College. 



19. The Relation of Bacteria to Plant Food, (15 minutes). Walter G. Sackett, Agricul- 



tural College. 



20. Michigan Fungi Not Previously Listed in the Reports of the Michigan Academy 



of Science, (15 minutes). J. B. Pollock and C. H. Kauffman, Ann Arbor. 



21. Sexual Reproduction in a Red Alga, (Calithanmion Baileyi), (15 minutes). R. P. 



Hibbard, Ann Arbor. 



22. Vitality of Seeds after Twenty-five Years, (5 minutes). W. J. Beal, Agricultural 



College. 



23. Polystictus Hirsutus as a Parasite on Mountain Ash, Maple and Carpinus, (10 minutes). 



J. B. Pollock, Ann Arbor. 



24. Notes on Ganoderma (Fomes) Sessile, Murrill, its Variation from the Original De- 



scription and Possible Parasitism (10 minutes). J. B. Pollock, Ann Arbor. 



25. Preparations for Dissecting Pans (5 minutes). S. O. Mast, Holland, Mich. 



26. Relation of Peat Development to Depth of the Water in Post-GIacial Lakes (15 



minutes). G. P. Burns, Ann Arbor. 



