REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 3tt 



nizing the great secular effects of non-intellectualized activities, neglects the 

 factor of mind which entered into the problem at a certain point, and which 

 tends to discourage the exercise of the legitimate power that mind is capable 

 of exerting for the general good. The work is an argument against the laUses 

 /aire doctrine and in support of a general policy of regulation applied to so- 

 cial operations according to the same principles as those on which physical 

 phenomena are regulated by the iuveutive genius of man. 



Ward, Lester F. — Marsh and aquatic plants of the Northern United 

 States, many of which are suitable for carp ponds. 



Bulletin U. S. Fish Com., HI, Sept. 6, 1883, pp. 257-265.) 

 The geographical range of the species is given, and those specially desig- 

 nated that are found in the District of Columbia and vicinity of Washing- 

 ton. 



On the position of the Gamopetalse. 



(Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Montreal, 1882 [Salem, 1883], vol. xxxi, pp. 460-462). 



Abstract of a paper read before the biological section, designed to show 

 that the Gatnopetalae are the most highly developed type of Dicotyledons, 

 were latest developed, and should occupy the highest place in the systematic 

 arrangement. 



The organic compounds in their relations to life. 



(Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Montreal, 1*82 [ Salem, 1883], vol. xxxi, pp. 493-494.) 



Abstract. This paper was published in full in the American Naturalist, 

 Dec. 1882, xvi, pp. 968-979, and its title appears in the report of the assist- 

 ant airector of the National Museum for 1882, pp. 67-68. 



Classification of organisms. 



(Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Montreal, 1882 [Salem, 1883], vol. xxxi, pp. 493-494.) 



Abstract of a paper read before tRe biological section. Organisms are 

 classified according to their ability to appropriate nutriment from inorganic 

 or only from other organic bodies. The paper was read from proof sheets of 

 chapter iv of " Dynamic Sociology," (vol. i, pp. 347-355,) then passing through 

 the press. 



Eeport to the Director of the United States Geological Survey 



on the operations of the division of paleobotany during the fiscal 

 year 1882-'83. 



(Fourth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey (Report of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, vol. hi), pp. 50-51. Washington, Government Printing 

 Office, 1883.) 



Scientific notes communicated to Science : 



1. On the preliminary study of a collection of fossil plants from 

 the Lower Yellowstone. 



(Science, June 15, 18d3, I, p. 559.) 



2. On Gray and Trumbull's review of De Candolle's " Origine des 

 plantes cultivees." 



(Science, June 29, 1«83, I, p. 616.) 



