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Eolian Loess. J. E. Todd 200 



Five Years' Exploration in the Fossil Fields of Alberta. Charles H. 



Sternberg 205 



The Comanchean of Central Kansas. W. H. Twenhofel ; . . . 213 



Measurement of Stress in Railroad Track. C. C. Williams 225 



The Shoshoni-Goship Indians. Albert B. Reagan 227 



Birds of the Bois Fort Indian Reservation and Adjacent Territory in- 



Minnesota. Albert B. Reagan 232 



Notes on Kansas Mammals, 1915. D. E. Lantz 241 



Inheritance of Fertility in Sheep. Edward N. Wentworth 243 



Experiments Upon the Extirpation of the Pituitary and Thyroid Glands 



in Tadpoles. Bennett M. Allen 245 



The Relation Between the Germ Cells and the Environment. Bennett 



M. Allen 248 



Life Cycles of Certain Trematodes. Earl O'Roke 255 



The Domestic Cat a Host of the Dog Tapeworm, Tsnia pisiformis Bloch. 



J. E. Ackert and A. A. Grant 257 



Additions to the List of Kansas Coleoptera; 1913 to 1915. Warren 



Knaus 261 



Experience with an Outbreak of Grasshoppers on Overflowed Lands in 



Louisiana. E. S. Tucker 265 



Notes on the Green Bug {Toxoptera graminum Rond.) in Texas. E. S. 



Tucker 276 



Determination and Records of Insects Collected at Piano, Texas. E. S. 



Tucker 291 



The High Cost of Food. Leon A. Congdon 313 



The Scientist on the Farm. Lyman C. Wooster 319 



Heredity and Education. Lyman C. Wooster 325 



Report of the Committee on Research: Subjects Under Way and 



Proposed. P. F. Walker 341 



Necrology: Lewis Lindsey Dyche. Guy West Wilson 355 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Figure 1. Special test of Bacillus coli communis 105 



2. Emporia city water. Monthly averages of fermentation 



tests, 1915 106 



3. Water tests, Kansas State Normal, 1915 106 



4. Osmosis test 108 



Map 1. Glacial deposits of northeastern Kansas 48 



2. Pliocene course of the Kansas river 197 



3. Early Pleistocene course of the Kansas river 198 



4. Maximum of the Kansas ice sheet, Pleistocene 199 



5. The surface distribution of the Comanchean strata of cen- 



tral Kansas 214 



Portrait of Professor L. L. Dyche 356 



