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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



American PhilosophiGalSociety 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA 



FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE 

 Vol. LXI. 1922. No. 2. 



CONTENTS 



PAGB 



Some Peculiarities of the Novse By E. E. Barnard ----- gg 

 The Relations of the Retinal Image to Animal Reactions. By 



G. H. Parker ------- 107 



Some Topographic and Climatic Characters in the Annual Rings 



of the Yellow Pines and Sequoias of the Southwest. By A. E. 



Douglass ---------------- -117 



The Effect of Diurnal Variation of Clock Rates upon Longitude 



Work. By R. R. Tucker ------------123 



Ecologic and Morphologic Study of the Clovers ( Trifolium ). By 



John W. Harshberger ------ -------i 36 



The Faeroe Language. By J. Dyneley Prince -------151 



Minutes ---------------_---- i 



PHILADELPHIA 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



104 South Fifth Street 

 1922 



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