354 Kansas Academy of Science. 



Efficiency of various kinds of poisons for use against home rats and 

 pocket gophers. 



By Lee K. Dice, K. S. A. C. 

 Work to be started in 1917 : 



Experimental work upon glands of internal secretion in larval frogs. 



By Prof. B. M. Allen, University of Kansas. 



Determination of effects of dissolved mineral substances upon the 

 growth of normal tadpoles and of those which have been deprived 

 of the hypophysis and of the thyroid glands. 



By Prof. B. M. Allen and Prof P. W. Bruckmiller, University of Kan- 

 sas. 



Removal and transplantation of germ cells and germ glands in from 

 larvae. 



By Prof. B. M. Allen, University of Kansas. 



Testing the inheritance of the effects of lead poisoning in rats. 

 Studies of inheritance in varieties of prairie dogs, quail, prairie 



chicken and turkeys. 

 The role of the mitachondria in the germ cells of Fettigidae, testing 



whether or not it is concerned in heredity. 



By Prof. W. R. B. Robertson, University of Kansas. 



The scapular foramen of lizards and other tetrapods. 

 Life history of anaplocephalidae cestodes. 



By Prof. Herman Douthitt, University of Kansas. 



