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Report of a Trip to Kansas to Investigate Reported Damages by Grasshoppers. 

 Insect Life, Vol. IV. pp. 49-56. 



The Clover Seed Caterpillar (in connection with H. Gossard). Insect Life, Vol. IV 

 pp. 56-58. 



An Experiment with Kerosene Emulsions. Insect Life, Vol. IV, pp. 63-64. 



Origin and Development of the Parasitic Habit in Mallophaga and Pediculidae. 

 Insect Life, Vol. IV. pp. 187-101. 



Notes on Grass Insects in Washington, D. C. Insect Life, Vol. IV. pp. 197-198. 



The True Bugs, or lleteropteraof Tennessee. Insect Life, Vol. IV, p. 224. (Review.) 



Notes on the Life History of Agallla sangulnoelenta, Prov. (Osborn and Gossard.) 

 Canadian Entomolgist, Vol. XXIV, p. 35. (Abstract of same paper in Proe. Acad.) 



On the Orthopterous Fauna of Iowa. Can. Ent., Vol. XXIV, p. 30. (Abstract from 

 Proc. Acad.) 



Note on the Species of Acanthla. Can. Ent.. Vol. XXIV, pp. 262-265. 



Honey Bee, or House Fly. Can. Ent., Vol. XXIV, pp. 270-271. 



Also newspaper articles on economic subjects. 



Prof. F. M. Witter has been at work on the fauca of the region around Mus- 

 catine. 



Prof. B. Shimek, of the State University, has published a paper on ''Pj/rgitlopsis 

 scalnrifonnis,''^ in which the author concludes that P. scalariformis and P. missis- 

 sippiensis are identical and calls them by the former name. 



A list of 38 species of shells found associated with PyrguJopsis is added. 



When it is remembered that every one of the men whose work has been referred 

 to in the preceding account is forced to respond to the innumerable calls made 

 upon the college professor or teacher for time and energy, and that all of the work 

 was done in addition to regular work, and papers read before this Academy, tbe 

 showing which I have been able to make has certainly been most creditable. It 

 amounts to a demonstration that a majority of the real scientific workers of Iowa 

 are included in our number, that this Academy is a thoroughly representative body 

 of men. 



In looking over the list of persons in attendance on the last meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Rochester, N. Y., I find 

 the names of ten lowans; seven of the ten are members of the Iowa Academy of 

 SciVxcfs, and one of the remaining three is the wife of one of our most honored 

 members, leaving only two of the ten not connected with this body. Such facts 

 are surely significant and show that our legislators were right in officially acknowl- 

 edging our Academy as the representative body of Iowa scientific workers. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STATE FAUNA. 



BY C. C. NUTTING, CHAIRMAN. 



About two months ago the chairman of this committee sent a circular 

 letter to all the members of the Academy asking for notes that could be used 

 in this report. Up to the time of writing, December 19th, only one member 

 has responded to this request, giving an interesting note concerning one 

 species of animal nevv to the State, and a note concerning the disappearance 

 of the beaver from Big creek, Tama county. 



Under these circumstances it is impossible to give as full a report as could 

 iBulletin from Laboratories of Nat. Hist. State University of Iowa. 



