MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



PAPERS PUKSKNTED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OP THE MICFIIGAN ACAD- 

 EMY OF SCIENCE, AGIUCULTUKAL COLLEGE, MARCH 20-30, 1900: 



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Scientific I'ses of Michij^an Folk Lore. — Harlan I. Smith. New York. 



Tlie Prehistoric Ethnology of the Thompson Kiver Region. — Harlan I. Smith, 



New York. 

 Asexual Dimorphism and the Origin of Sex. — Chas. E. Barr, Albion. 

 Some of the Unsolved Troblems in Michigan Forestry. — W. J. 'Beal, Ph. D., 



Agricultural College. 

 Review of Hitchcock's Gcolu</ical History of Oaltu. — A. B. Lyons, Detroit. 

 Address of the retiring President, Jacob Reighard, Ph. B. — The Biological 



Sciences and the People. 

 Coal, its Origin and Occuirence. — Alfred C. Lane, Ph. D. Lansing. Stereopticon 



Lecture. 

 Four Interesting Fungi. — B. O. Longyear, Agricultural College. Illustrated 



with specimens and charts. 

 Two New Species of Michigan Fungi. — B. O. Longyear, Agricultural College. 



Illustrated with specimens and charts. 

 Catalogue of the Flora of Detroit. — O. A. Farwell, Detroit. 

 Origin of the Ohio Flora and its Relation to that of Southern Michigan. — J. W, 



T. Duvel, Ann Arbor. 

 Systematic Relations of the Fumariaceae from a Chemical Point of View. — 



Julius O. Sehlotterbeek, Ann Arbor. 

 Anatomical Distinctions of Juuiperus communis and ./. virginiana. — Ida JNI. 



Hopson, Ann Arbor. 

 Cnicifjenia rcctangularis, Morren. — Dr. -Julia W. Snow, Ann Arbor. 

 Passing of the Native American. — Cressy L. Wilbur, M. D.. Lansing. Discussion 



led by Hon. Lucius C. Storrs, Secretary of the State Board of Charities and 



Corrections. 

 The Infectiousness of Milk from Tuberculous Cows. — Henry B. Baker, il. D., 



Lansing. Discussion led by C. E. Marshall, Ph. B. 

 Bird Notes from the Upper Peninsula. — E. E. Brewster, Iron Mountain. 

 Tlie Damage done to Young Trees by Deer and Elk.— W. J. Beal, Ph. D. 

 The Scale Insects (Coccidae) of Michigan. — R. H. Pettit, Agricultural College, 



Illustrated with lantern slides. 

 Observations on Hydra. — H. H. Parke, Ann Arbor. 

 The Evolution of the Lithodidae. — S. .J. Holmes, Ann Arbor. 



The Reactions of Infu^^oria to the Electric Current. — Raymond Pearl, Ann Arbor. 

 Development of the Hypophysis of Amia. — S. 0. Mast, Ann Arbor. With lantern 



slides. 

 Bounties for Noxious Animals in Michigan. — Walter B. Barrows, Agricultural 



College. 

 Studies of the Classification of Minnows. — ^\Mlliam T. Shaw, Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 

 A New Method for the Mechanical Analysis of Soils. — Prof. ,J. A. Jeflfery, Agri- 

 cultural College. With apparatus and demonstration. 

 Syllabus for a Short Course on Grasses and other Forage Plants. W. J. Beal, 



Ph. D., Agricultural College. 

 Some notes on the Advantage of Testing Seeds in Moist Air.^— C. F. Wheeler, 



Agricultural College. 

 Distribution of the Pricklj- Pear, Opiuitia Humifusa Raf., in Michigan. — C. F. 



Wheeler, Agricultural College. 

 Some Observations on the Habits of tlie Harlequin Snake, FAaps fulvus, and 



Water ifoccasin, Af/l-istroJoii. piscivoriis, in Confinement. (By title.) — 



Percy S. Selous, Greenville. 

 Pure Milk Supply. — Charles E. Marshall, Agricultural College. 

 The Coleoptera of Northern Michigan. — E. A. Schwarz, Washington, D. C. 



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