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Ward, Lester F. List of water-plants for carp-ponds. 



• (Bulletin of the United States Fish Commiasion, 1882, pp. 22-25.) 



A list of names of aquatic plants furuished by the superintendent of the 

 carp-ponds is here revised, modern names substituted for obsolete ones, the 

 locality and range of the species briefly indicated, and the plants arranged 

 according to the prevailing system of botanical classification. 



Catalogue of a collection of Japanese woods presented to tbe 



United States National Museum by the University of Tokio, Japan. 



(Proc. U, S. Nat. Mus., 1862, li, pp. 308-311.) 



The names appearing on the specimens of this collection are here arranged 

 in their proper systematic order and their synonymy is given. A few par- 

 tially named species were determined from the figures accompanying the 

 specimens. 



Politico-social functions. Abstract of a paper read before the 



Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C, March 15, 1881. 



(Trans. Authro. Soc, Wash., 1882, i, pp. 39-42.) 



This paper is chiefly devoted to pointing out the imi^ortance of a certain 

 amount of judicious regulation on the part of society as a collective whole, 

 of the more or less injurious and ruinous operations which must necessarily 

 go on within it in the absence of such regulation. 



The postage question. 



(Botanical Gazette, August and September, 1682, vii, pp. 97-99.) 



Gives a correspondence between the Post-Oflice Department and the writer 



on the Department rulings relative to the form of label which would come 



within the law as third-class matter. 



" Documaria barbara." 



(Botanical Gazette, 1882, vii, pp. 99-100.) 



An account of its collection in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia. 



Proterogyny in Sparganium eurycarpus. 



(Botanical Gazette, 1882, vii, p. 100.) 



A note recording the observation of this phenomenon in the District of 

 Columbia. 



The anthropocentric theory. 



(Transactions Anthropological Society of Washington, i, 1882, pp. 93-103.) 

 A collection of facts tending to prove and to disprove the existence of an 

 intelligent control of events in the interest of man. The paper forms part of 

 chapter viii (vol. ii, jip. 45-74) of "Dynamic Sociology." In press. 



What Mr. Ward was ready to say. (Herbert Spencer in 



America.. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1883. pp. 76-79.) 



Portion of a letter complimentary to Mr. Spencer, written at the request of 

 the committee of arrangements, to be read on the occasion of the banquet 

 given him in New York, October 9, 1882. Before finishing the letter the 

 writer concluded to attend the banquet in person. The matter of it was sub- 

 sequently furnished the committee for publication. 



The organic compounds in their relations to life. 



(American Naturalist, December, 1882, xvi, pp. 968-979.) 



Read before the Philosophical Society of Washington, January 28, 1882, and 



