BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE U S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 773 



GEORGE Vasey. The Genus Panicum in the United States. 

 Hull. No. 8, Botanical Dio. Dept. of Agriculture, 1889, pp 20-30. 



Tins is a synopsis of the genus, consisting of a division into sectious, and descriptions of our 

 61 species (excluding (hose included in Oplismenus). Ten of the species described have 

 not been published before. 

 George Vasey. Notes on some rare (Jrasses. 

 Bull. Torrej Botanical Club, November, 1883. 



George Vasey. On two species of Gramme*. 



Bull. Torre;/ Botanical Club, November 1888. 

 George Vasey and 13. T. Galloway. IT. S. Department of Agriculture. | Botani- 

 cal Division. | Bull«tiu No. 8. | | A Record | of | Some of tbo Work of the 



Division, | including | Extracts from Correspondence j and | other Communica- 

 tions. | Prepared by | Dr. Geo. Vasey | and | B. T. Galloway, | under the direc- 

 tion of the Commissioner of Agriculture. | | Washington : | Government 



Printing Office. | 1889. 



8vo.pp. 1-67. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Cambrian Fossils from Mount Stephens, Northwest Terri- 

 tory of Canada. 



Am. Jour. Sci.. 3d ser., xxxvi, September, 1888, pp. 161-166. 



Also published in pamphlet form. 

 Charles D. Walcott. The Stratigraphical succession of the Cambrian Faunas in 

 North America. 



Nature, xxxvm, No. 988, October 4, 1888, p. 551. 



Charles D. Walcott. Stratigraphic position of the Olenellus Fauna in North 

 America and Europe. 



Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., xxxvn and xxxvm, pp. 374-392 ; 29-42. 



Charles D. Walcott. Description of New Genera and species from the Middle 

 Cambrian. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, pp. 441-446, 1 text figure. 



Lester F. Ward. What shall the Public Schools teach ? 



The Forum, New York, V, July, 1888, pp. 574-583. 



A defeu3e of industrial education from the standpoint that it stimulates the constructive 

 faculty and leads to the subjection of nature by man through invention, which is the proc- 

 ess through which alone civilization takes place. 



Lester F. Ward. True and False Civil-Service Reform. 



Ihe Historical American, i, Cleveland, Ohio, July, 1888, pp. 25-30 ; Bedford's Magazine, Chicago, 

 Illinois, in July, 1889, pp. 202-210. 



Opposes the prevailing practice of attacking the personal character of office-holders as calcu- 

 lated to lower the moral tone of the service by deterring good men from accepting otfice ; 

 defends this class against such attacks and the service against indiscriminate charges of 

 corruption ; argues for a system that shall remove all inducements to office-seeking and 

 secure the special training of those who are to transact the business of the state in the 

 methods of government operations and the business of a nation. 



Lester F. Ward. Dabney's Sensualistic Philosophy. 



The Historical American, I, Cleveland, Ohio, July, 1888, p. 78. 



A rather severe adverse criticism of the matter, the manner, and spirit of the work reviewed, 

 namely " The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century, considered by Robert 

 L. Dabney, i>. u..i.i.. i>.,etc. New and enlarged edition. New York : Anson D. F. Randolph 

 &Co." 



Lester F. Ward. Evidence of the Fossil Plants as to the Age of the Potomac For- 

 mation. 



American Journal of Science, third series, xxxvr, August, 1888. pp. 119-131. 



This paper was read by invitation before the National Academy of Sciences, at the U. S. 

 National Museum. April 20, 1888. It. deals chiefly with the results of Prof. William M. 

 Fontaine's researches in this field, summarizing the data contained in his unpublished 

 Monograph of the Flora of the Potomac Formation and specially emphasizing the fact 

 that the flora contains a huge proportion of Jurassic types, and that its dicotyledonous 

 forms are very archaic in character, constituting, in all probability, their earliest recorded 

 appearance. It is maintained that, owing to this peculiar character, they do not neces- 

 sarily prove that the Potomac Formation is Cretaceous. 



