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Clyde Everett Leighty: Studies of Variation and Correlation of Oats (Avena 

 savita). 



Merris Mickey McCool: The Antitoxic Action of Certain Nutrient and Non- 

 nutrient Mineral Bases with Respect to Plants. 



Clyde Hadley Myers: Variation, Correlation, and Inheritance of Characters of 

 Wheat and Peas Grown on Soils of Different Degrees of Fertility. 



Harry Westfall Redfield: A Study of Hydrogen Sulphide Production by Bacteria 

 and its Significance in the Sanitary Examination of Water. 



John Edwin Turlington: The Effect on Plant Growth of Nutrients applied at 

 Different Periods. 



Rhett Youmans Winters: The Inheritance of Size of Capsules in Pepper Hybrids. 



Oliver Baker Hopkins: The Carboniferous Sphenophyllales, Equisetales, and 

 Lycopodiales of Maryland, including certain Forms from Pennsylva- 

 nia and Ohio. 



Willis Edgar Maneval: The Development of Magnolia and Liriodendron, includ- 

 ing a Discussion of the Primitiveness of the Magnoliaceae. 



Marion Graham Elkins: The Maturation Phases in Smilax herbacea. 



Charley Francis Briscoe: Tubercle Bacilli in Nature. 



Albert Lemuel Whiting: A Biochemical Study of Nitrogen in Certain Legumes. 



Richard Hermon Williams: A Study of Protein as a Factor in the Nutrition of 

 Swine, with Special Reference to the Distribution of the Forms of Ash 

 and Phosphorus in the Animal Body. 



Freda Marie Bachman : A Cytological Study of Collema. 



Warner Jackson Morse: Comparative Studies of the Bacteria associated with 

 the Blackleg Disease of Potatoes. 



Thomas Harper Goodspeed: Quantitative Studies of Inheritance in Nicotiana 

 Hybrids. 



Walter Pearson Kelley: The Functions and Distribution of Manganese in Plants 

 and Soils. 



Henry Newell Goddard: Can Soil Fungi Assimilate Atmospheric Nitrogen? 



Elizabeth Dorothy Wuist: The Morpho-physiological Life History of the Gameo- 

 phyte of Onoclea struthiopteris. 



Freda Detmers: An Ecological Study of Buckeye Lake — a Contribution to the 

 Phytogeography of Ohio. 



William Ward Browne: Acid Production by the Bacillus coli Group. 



Caroline Anna Black: The Morphology of Riccia frostii Aust. 



William Logan Woodburn: Spermatogenesis in certain Hepaticae. 



James Ellis Gow: Embryology of the Aroids. 



Fred Jay Seaver: The Hypocreales of North America. 



Hally Delila Mary Jolivette : Studies on the Reaction of Pilobolus to Light Stim- 

 uli. 



An increase of over 60 per cent in the energy devoted to botanical 

 science can not but be gratifying to those acquainted with the demands 

 made for men trained in some branch of the subject as teachers, and as 

 specialists in the agricultural and other applied science practises. It 

 is notable that with the growing interest in pathology, but few beginners 



