312 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ward, Lester F. — Continued. 



3. On a collection of fossil plants from the Fort Union group 

 made by the writer during the months ot July and August, 1883, 

 in the Yellowstone and Missouri Valleys. 



(Science, October 12, 1883, n, p. 517.) 



4. On the descent of the Missouri River from Fort Benton, Mont., 

 to Bismarck, Dak., in an open boat by a geological party of which 

 the writer was a member, made in August and September, 1883. 



(Science, October 12, 1883, n, pp. 517-518.) 



Remarks before the Anthropological Society at its fifty-eighth 



meeting, held November 7, 1882, upon the address of Dr. J. C, Well- 

 ing, vice-president of the Section of Sociology, on the " Turning- 

 point of modern sociological science." 



(Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, n, pp. 31-33, 

 Washington, 1883.) 



Criticism of the views of Messrs. Herbert Spencer, W.R.Greg, and others 

 who oppose all humanitarian enterprises, on the ground that they are con- 

 trary to the law of the survival of the fittest, and that they tend to produce 

 social degeneracy. It was held that all distinctively human activity is op- 

 posed to the natural method of development, aud is far more effective. 



The department of fossil plants in the U. S. National Museum, 



1882. 



(Report of Assistant Director U.S. Nat. Mus. for 1882, (1883). Smithsonian 

 Report for 1882 (1884) pp. 150-151, 183-186.) 



White, C. A. — Glacial drift in the Upper Missouri River region. 



(Americau Journal of Science, March, 1883, vol. xxv, p. 206.) 



On the Macrocheilus of Phillips, Plectostylus of Conrad, and 



Soleniscus of Meek and Worthen. 



(Proceedings U. S. National Museum, 1883, vol. vr, p. 184.) 



Progress of Invertebrate Palaeontology in the United States 



for the year 1882. 



(American Naturalist, June, 1883, vol. xvn, p. 598.) 



Burning of Lignite in situ, 



(American Journal of Science, July, 1883, vol. xxvi, No. 151, p. 24.) 



Commingling of Ancient Faunal and Modern Floral Types in 



the Laramie Group. 



(American Journal of Science, August, 1883, vol.xxvi, p. 120.) 



Existence of a deposit i u Northeastern Montana and Northwest- 

 ern Dakota that is possibly equivalent with the Green Driver Groups. 



(American Journal of Science, June, 1883, vol. xxv, p. 411.) 



The Department of Fossil Invertebrates in the U. S. National 



Museum in 1882. 



(Report Asst. Director U. S. Nat. Museum for 1882. Report Smithsonian 

 Institute for 1882 (1884), pp. 149-150, 186, 221-222.) 



