TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



(Prepared by W. R. Wright, Agricultural College.) 



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Abstract of history of the Michigan Academy of Science T 



Constitution of Michigan Academy of Science 9 



By-Laws of Michigan Academy of Science 13 



List of papers presented at tenth annual meeting 17 



An account of the annual meeting 20 



Articles published in this report : 



President's address, A Natural History Survey for Michigan, by F. C. Newcombe 28 



Our Educational Methods and Forestry Progress, by Charles W. Garfield 37 



Forestry Problems of Michigan, from a Business Man's Point of View, by John H. 



Bissell 40 



The Next Step in Forestry in Michigan, by Filibert Roth 47 



Forestry Plantations in Michigan, by E. E. Bogue 51 



The Treatment and the Economic Possibilities of the Farm VVoodlot of Southern 



Michigan, by C. A. Davis ' t.. 53 



Commercial Fish and Fisheries, by F. N. Clark 65 



The Benefits of the Propagation of Game Fish to the State of Michigan, by F. B. 



Dickerson 69 



Game Animals, by C. H. Chapman 72 



Formation of Peat in Dead Lake, by George P. Burns (abstract) 76 



The Regeneration of Seedling Roots after Splitting, by Lura A. Warner (abstract).. 78 

 Conditions Influencing Regeneration of the Hypocotyl in Linum Usitatissimum, by 



Mary E. Hedden (abstract) 79 



Regeneration of the Epicotyl in Seedlings of Vicia Faba and Pisumsativum, by 



Arabel W. Clark (abstract) 80 



The Angle of Deviation from the Normal Position at which Stems Show the Strong- 

 est Geotropic Response, by Julia Anna Haynes (abstract) 80 



The Occurrence of Basi Sporium Gallarum Molliard in Michigan, by A. W. Pier- 

 son (abstract) 81 



Rough-barked and Smooth-barked White Oaks, by Chas. A. Davis 82 



The Importance of Plant Variation and Its Bearing upon the Evolution of Species, 



by F. A. Loew 84 



Some Interesting Michigan Plants; Possibly Some New Species, by S. Alexander — 88 



A Few Words Concerning the New Michigan Flora, by W. J. Beal 90 



The Relation of Mass Action and Physical Affinity to Toxicity, with Incidental Dis- 

 cussion as to What Extent Electrolytic Dissociation May be Involved, by J. B. 



Dandeno (abstract) 92 



Educational Requirements for the Profession of Forestry, by E. B. Bogue 93 



College Extension Work in Agriculture, by W. J. Beal 95 



Review of the Glacial Geology of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan, by Frank 



Leverett 100 



Report of Pasteur Institute of the University of Michigan, by Thomas B. Cooley 111 



* Some Problems in Sanitary Science, by Guy L. Kiefer 113 



Domestic Science in Its Relation to Sanitary Science, by Carrie A. Lyford 118 



The Object of Cookery in the Schools, by Jennette Carpenter 123 



Fiber and Iron in the Food of Man, by Floyd W. Robison 125 



The Viability of the Typhoid Bacillus in Sewage, by John Ralston Williams 128 



