148 KAIiSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Harbisburg, Pa. — Pennsylvania Geological Survey — see Philadelphia. 



Hyde Park, Mass.— Franfc Blake Webster Company: Ornithologist and OOloglst, Vol. XV, Nos. 10-12, 



pp. 145-188: Vol. X\^, 1891, 184 pp.: Vol. XVII, 1892, No.s. 1-9, pp. 1-144. 

 Indianapolis, Ind. — Department of Geology and Natural History. 



Indiana Academy of Science — see Brookville, Ind. 

 Iowa City, Iowa. — Iowa Academy of Science — see Des Moines. 



State Historical Society: Iowa Historical Record, quarterly. Vol. VII, Nos. 1 to 4, 1891, 192 pp., steel 

 and other engravings of Wm. Patterson, Austin Adams, Chas. B. Richards, and Ralph P. Lowe. 



Vol. VIII, Nos. 1 to 4, 1892, 192 pp., with portraits of Ellas H. Williams, James M. Love, Dr. 

 Enos Lowe, and James W. Grimes. 

 State University of Iowa: Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History, Vol. II, No. 2, 100 pp., 

 13 pi., containing: 1. The Myxomycetes of Eastern Iowa, by Thos. H. McBrlde. 2. Report on 

 some Fossils collected in the Northwest Territory, Canada, by Naturalists from the University of 

 Iowa, by S. Calvin. 3. Two Unique Spirifers from the Devonian Strata of Iowa, by S. Calvin. 

 5. Pyrgulopsis scalariformis, by B. Shimek. . 6. A Geological Reconnoissance In Buchanan County, 

 Iowa, by S. Calvin. 



Jefferson City, 'M.o.— Arthur Winslow, State Geologist: Biennial Report of the State Geologist, 1891, 

 56 pp., 2 diagram maps. 



Notes on the Mining of Thin Coal Seams in Missouri and Kansas, by Arthur Winslow and Leo 

 Gluck, assistant. 14 pp. 



Coal Mining in the Belleville Seam, and a Comparison of the " Needle " and " Barrel " Methods 

 of Blasting, by Leo Gluck. 8 pp. 

 F. A. Simpson, Sedalia — see Sedalia. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas City .academy of Science: The Kansas City Scientist, Vol. V, 1891, in 

 monthly parts, 192 pp., 4 pi., consisting of: 1, Trilobites of the Upper Coal-Measure Group at 

 Kansas City, Mo., by Sid. J. Hare; 2 and 3, Some New Species of Echinodermata from the 

 Subcarboniferous Rocks of Pike County, Mo., by R. R. Rowley and Sid. J. Hare; and 4, The 

 Exeter Vase, an "ancient" vase with carvings, said to have been excavated near Exeter, Barry 

 county. Mo., In a cut of the St. Louis & San Francisco railway. 



Knoxville, Tenn. — F. Lamson-Scribner: The Grasses of Tennessee, Part 1, 120 pp., numerous illus- 

 trations, flexible cover. 



Lancaster, Pa.— John K. Small: Preliminary List of Mosses of Lancaster County, Pa., February, 1892, 

 8 pp. 



Lansing, Mich. — Michigan Agricultural College: Michigan FlOBa, by W. J. Beal and C. F. Wheeler, 

 1892, 180 pp., 1 two-page map. 



Lawrence, Kans. — Kansas State University: Higher Education: Its Alms and its Results, an address 

 by Geo. R. Peck. 20 pp. 



The Best Books, an address by Daniel W. Wilder. 20 pp. 



The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 2, 100 pp., 8 pi. and map, containing arti- 

 cles on Kansas Pterodactyls, by S. W. WilUston; Kansas Mosasaurs, by S. W. Williston and E. C. 

 Case; Notes and Descriptions of Syrphldse, by W. A. Snow; Melitera dentata Grote, by V. L. Kel- 

 logg; Dlptera Braziliana, by S. W. Williston; Unicursal Curves by Method of Inversion, by H. B. 

 Newson; Foreign Settlement in Kansas, and Dialect Word List, by W. H. Carruth; The Great 

 Spirit Spring Mound, by E. H. S. Bailey; Pascal's Lima^on and the Cardioid, by H. C. Rlggs. 

 Vernon L. Kellogg: Common Injurious Insects of Kansas, 136 pp., numerous illustrations. 



Lincoln, Neb. — University of Nebraska: University Studies, Vol. I, No. 4, June, 1892, contains articles 

 On a New Order of Gigantic Fossils— "Devil's Corkscrew," by Erwin H. Barbour, 24 pp., 8 pi., 

 atid numerous figures; On Certain Facts and Principles in the Development of Form in Litera- 

 ture, by L. A. Sherman, 30 pp., with diagrams; On the Dikanlkos L6gos in Euripides, by James 

 T. Lees, 42 pp. 



Little Rook, Ark. — Arkansari Geological Surveyseo Palo Alto, Cal., Dr. J. C. Branner, and Washing- 

 ton, D. C, F. V. Covllle. 



Madison, Win. J. B. Thayer, State Supt: Circular on the Free High Schools of Wisconsin, with com- 

 ments on the high-school law, 1890, 24 pp. 

 Rollin 1). Salisbury: The Drift of the North German Lowland. From the American Geologist, May, 



18il2, 28 pp. 

 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters: Transactions, Vol. VllI, 1888 "91, 476 pp., 8 

 plates, and two portraits of former presidents, Roland Duer Irving and Wm. Francis Allen. 

 ContiUns, among other articles. Analytic Keys to the Genera and Si)ecies of Mosses, by Charles R. 

 Barnes; The First Abdominal Segment of Embryo Insects, by W. M. Wheeler; A Little-known 

 Region In Northwestern Montana, with map, by G. E. Culver; Occurrence of Olivine Diabase in 



