LIBRARY 



NEW YOBK 

 BOTANICAL 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. Qaroen. 



Page 



Title page 1 



Letter of Transmittal 3 



Table of Contents 5 



Officers for 1910-1911 7 



Membership list and affiliated societies 8 



Report of the Treasurer • • 1^ 



Life of William Smith. Sayer 13 . 



Life of Charles Fay Wheeler •_ • • 14 



Complete list of papers and addresses presented at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting 



of the Michigan Academy of Science 15 



Papers published in this report: 



1. President's Address — Outline of the History of the Great Lakes, Frank 



Leverett 19 



2 On the Glacial Origin of the Huronian Rocks of Nipissing, Ontario, Reginald 



Hore 43 



3. The Contour of the Sylvanian Sand Rock and Related Strata in the Detroit 



River Area, Rev'd Thomas Nattress 47 



4. Soil Stripes in Cold Humid Regions, and a Kindred Phenomenon, William 



H. Hobbs 51 



5. A Waste Filled Valley (Abstract), A. E. Parkins _. . 53 



6. Report upon the Progress of the Biological W^ork of the Michigan Biolo- 



gical and Geological Survey, Alexander G. Ruthven 54 



7. Notes on Michigan Reptiles and Amphibians, II, Alexander G. Ruthven. . 59 



8. Variation in Lymnaea reflexa Say, from Huron County, H. Burrington 



Baker 60 



9. The Origin of the Second Polar Body, Charles E. Barr 64 



10. Two Abnormalities in the Crayfish, L. Harmon 66 



11. A Preliminary List of the Crustaceae of Michigan, A. S. Pearse 68 



12. A Remedy for the Black Fly Pest in Certain Streams of the Southern Penin- 



.sula of Michigan, Cora D. Reeves 77 



13. Can seeds be Sterilized? Richard de Zeeuw. 79 



14. Comparison of Warm vs. Cold Houses as Regards Egg Production, H. L. 



Kempster 85 



15. Plant Excretion, J. B. Dandeno 86 



16. Further Observations on the Life History of Puccinia malvacearum, J.- B. 



Dandeno 91 . 



17. Sodium Silicate as a Mounting Medium, J. B. Dandeno 93 - 



18. The Distribution of Mushrooms at Negaunee, Michigan, Rose M. Taylor. . 95 - 

 Plants New to Michigan, S. Alexander 97 



20. Notes on the Yellow Adder's-tongue, A. A. Farwell 98 



21. Unreported Michigan Fungi for 1909, C. H. Kauffman 99 - 



22. Another Observation on Sclerotina Fructigena, Jas. B. Pollock 104 ' 



23. Increased Cost of Living: The Situation, Wilbur O. Hedrick 106 



24. Cause and Remedies of the Increased Cost of Living as seen in Monetary 



Conditions, Jas. B. Mitchell 114 



25. Organized Labor and the Recent Advance in Prices, Lewis H. Haney. . . . 119 



26. The Influence of the TaritT and Monopoly upon the Increasing Cost of 



Living, Frank T. Carleton ■. 131 



27. The Cause of the Increased Cost of Agricultural Staples and the Influence 



of this upon the recent Evolution of other Objects of Expenditure, 



Edw. D. Jones 137 



28. Some Observations on Recent American Economic Thinkers and Their 



Thought, Lewis Haney , 143 



Report of the Librarian 150 



Constitution 163 



Index '. 173 



