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



(Bulletin of the United States Fish CoramiaMon, 1882, pp 22-25 ) 

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

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

 locality and range of the species briefly indicated, and the plants arran-^ed 

 according to the prevailing system of botanical classification. 



Catalogue ofa collection of Japanese woods presented to the 



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



(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, u, pp. 308-311.) 



The names appearing on the specimens of this collection are here arran-ed 

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

 tially named species were determined from the figures accompanvino- the 

 specimens. r j o 



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



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



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



This paper is chiefly devoted to pointing out the importance 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 withm 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-Office Department and t]ie writer 



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



withm the law as third-class matter. 



" Docuinaria 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 not^ 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 

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

 chapter via (vol. ii, pp. 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 

 g.ven 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 



